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Shia Islamic Argument for the existence of God
RE: Shia Islamic Argument for the existence of God
(May 24, 2016 at 10:10 am)TheMuslim Wrote: We start off with the primary proposition “There is at least one reality”. This proposition must be true in every real condition, because such conditions are themselves realities – and thus they themselves confirm the truth of the primary proposition. Since the proposition is eternally necessarily true in every real condition, the extension of the reality mentioned in the proposition must be an eternally necessarily existing reality (or realities), ...

For sake of argument, I will except this for now.  HOWEVER ---

(May 24, 2016 at 10:10 am)TheMuslim Wrote: ... i.e. a Necessary Existent(s).

That does not follow.  You jumped tracks.  (and you better watch it, there is a crazy lady with a scalpel driving backwards on that one)  Why does a reality require an "Existent"?  An "Existent" can have (may require) a reality, but it does not follow that a reality has or even needs an "Existent".
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RE: Shia Islamic Argument for the existence of God - by IATIA - May 24, 2016 at 8:29 pm

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