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Do your beliefs imply a Necessary being exists?

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Do your beliefs imply a Necessary being exists?
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RE: Do your beliefs imply a Necessary being exists?
August 9, 2012 at 7:20 pm
(August 9, 2012 at 7:11 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Actually that's a very good point. As far as this survey is concerned, there has to be a Necessary Being... the person taking the survey.

Did you read the definition of the term "necessary being"? What makes you think that the person taking the survey has the following properties (which constitute the definition of Necessary Being):

(1) It is possible that it is a cause of something; (this one's pretty obvious)
(2) It is not possible (at any time) that it does not exist.

Is (2) true of the person taking the survey? How do you know that?
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
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RE: Do your beliefs imply a Necessary being exists? - by CliveStaples - August 9, 2012 at 7:20 pm

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