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Define “God” by the Judeo-Christian definition Define omnipotence, omniscience, omni -benevolence, and omni -presence Be able to list and defend several common proofs of God’s existence Be able to list and defend several common proofs of God’s non-existence. Goals. What is God?.

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  1. Define “God” by the Judeo-Christian definition • Define omnipotence, omniscience, omni-benevolence, and omni-presence • Be able to list and defend several common proofs of God’s existence • Be able to list and defend several common proofs of God’s non-existence Goals

  2. What is God? Think/Groups/Brainstorm

  3. Omni-Benevolent • All-Good The 4 Omnis

  4. Omnipotent • All-powerful • God can do anything God wants or would ever want to do. The 4 Omnis

  5. Omnipresent • Everywhere • God is in all places at all times The 4 Omnis

  6. Omniscient • All-knowing The 4 Omnis

  7. Omni-benevolent: 100% Good • God is good • God wants that which is best. • Omnipotent: All-Powerful • God can do anything God wants or would ever want to do. • Omni-present: Everywhere. • God is in all places at all times. • Omniscient: All-Knowing • God knows everything. God: The 4 Omnis

  8. “Proofs” of God’s Existence

  9. Tommaso de Aquino • Born AD 1224 • In 1244, he joined the Dominicans • 1 month later, his brother abducted him and held him captive in his family’s castle for a year • He eventually convinced them to let him become a priest. Thomas Aquinas

  10. First Mover • First Cause • Greatest Being • Necessary Being • Intelligent Design Aquinas’ 5 Proofs

  11. Newtonian physics 300 years before Newton • By their nature, objects are at rest. • There is motion. • Motion is caused by other motion. • Therefore, something had to cause the first motion. • “Domino effect” First Mover

  12. Everything is caused by something else. • There is not an infinite set of causes. • Therefore, something must have caused all other things to be. • Which came first, the chicken or the egg? First Cause

  13. By natural law, we know that some things are better than others. • There has to be a “best being” to compare with good and bad things. • Which is better: winning $30 million, or seeing a good film? • Which is better, seeing a good film or kicking puppies? Greatest Being

  14. Greatest Being

  15. Look at the planets perfectly circling the sun. • Look at the moon perfectly circling the earth. • Look at the perfect balance of plants and animals in the ecosystem. • This doesn’t happen by accident. • There must be an intelligent designer. Intelligent Designer

  16. It is possible for anything I can sense not to exist. • Therefore, it is possible that nothing I can sense exists. • Non-existence is impossible. • Something must exist necessarily. • Therefore, there is something that exists necessarily which I cannot sense. Necessary Being

  17. b. 1033 AD • Anselmo de Candia Ginevra • Born noble • Wanted to join the monastery at 15 • Dad wouldn’t let him • Left home to travel at age 23 • Entered a Benedictine abbey at age 27. St. Anselm

  18. If I am thinking of the greatest being imaginable, I can think of no being greater. • If it is false that I can think of no greater being, it is false that I am thinking of the greatest being imaginable. • Being is greater than non-being. • If the being I am thinking of does not exist, it is not the greatest being imaginable. • If I am thinking of the greatest being thinkable, I am thinking of a being which exists. St. Anselm’s Ontological Argument

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  20. If I am thinking of the greatest being imaginable, I can think of no being greater. • If it is false that I can think of no greater being, it is false that I am thinking of the greatest being. • Being is greater than non-being. • If the being I am thinking of does not exist, it is not the greatest being. • If I am thinking of the greatest being thinkable, I am thinking of a being which exists. St. Anselm’s Ontological Argument

  21. Anthropological Argument • Argument from Love • Argument from Beauty Other “Proofs”

  22. “Proofs” of God’s Non-Existence

  23. There is evil in the world. • Some of it is here by man’s choosing. • Some is not. • Why would a God who is all good and all-powerful let evil into the world? • EG: Hurricane Katrina The Problem of Evil

  24. The very idea of omnipotence is impossible. • Can God create a log so heavy God cannot lift it? Omnipotence is an inherent contradiction

  25. If God knows what I’m going to choose before I choose it, do I really have free will? • Causality doesn’t matter. If there is an omniscient God, we cannot have free will.

  26. All things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one. • If two hypotheses both sufficiently explain the data, use the one which makes fewer assumptions. • Belief in God requires more complex assumptions than non-belief • Ironically, William of Occam was a Franciscan priest. Occam’s Razor

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