RE: What do you think of this argument for God?
March 6, 2017 at 6:22 pm
(This post was last modified: March 6, 2017 at 6:57 pm by SuperSentient.
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(March 6, 2017 at 9:41 am)SteveII Wrote:(March 4, 2017 at 3:57 am)TheAtheologian Wrote: I heard an argument like this:
1. God is the greatest possible being.
2. God is a necessary being, which means that God exists in every possible world (If God exists).
3. If God exists in one possible world, God must logically exist in every possible world.
4. Since God is the greatest possible being, it follows that every aspect of God (being possible) exists in some possible world.
5. Therefore, God exists (in all possible worlds, including ours).
I actually just structured the premises this way myself but is the same idea as an argument I heard before.
What do you think of it?
This argument falls apart right from the beginning because you used the word 'possible' instead of 'conceivable' when describing God. You should look at the real version of the Ontological Argument--every word is carefully defined.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontological_argument
Why should we start from what the human mind can conceive?
Hail Satan! 
