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Originally Posted by Truefire  assume God is perfect, in the highest sense of the word, pure and utter perfection. Omniscient, all powerful, all pervading, the ultimate. etc.
Human thought is bound by experience and previous thought. Try it, try to come up with a completely original thought that cannot be broken down into something that you have previously learned. Its impossible. It can't be done, original thought doesn't exist in a pure form, instead everything we think about is based on things that are already in our mind. Therefore anything that we can imagine, must be based on previously existing principles. The very fact that we can conceive of a perfect being means that a perfect being must exist. Therefore god must exist.
or something along those lines... There are holes I know, this is an incomplete translation at best. When my teacher taught it is felt nearly irrefutable. (even if I wasn't convinced  ) |
Holes, such as that the concept of a perfect being is still an amalgamation of other, smaller concepts. I.e., perfection, omniscience, all powerful, all pervading, being.
I choose to pray to the
Flying Spaghetti Monster. By the same reasoning it must exist.