God exists or not? From ages the question that remains unanswered is ‘God exists or not?’ There have been several arguments proposed and deliberately debated over centuries on the ‘Existence of God’. These arguments are categorized as metaphysical, logical and empirical under the ‘philosophy of religion’. Each of these arguments follows different ideas to reach to a common goal- God exists or not? The ontological argument also tends to prove the existence of the Omnipotent, Omnipresent and Omniscient being. Ontological Argument by St. Anselm portrays God as ‘that than which none greater can be imagined’. Anselm argues: 1. God is the being than which none greater can be imagined. 2. A being that exists both as an idea and in reality is greater …show more content…
But this is a contradiction to the supposition that no being greater than God can be imagined. 5. Therefore, God exists. Anselm’s argument aims to refute the fool who says in his heart that there is no God. This fool should know the claim that God exists as greatest imaginable being and should not believe in the existence of God. But the definition of God as ‘greatest being’ is his own way of perceiving God. This presumption cannot be generalized to prove existence of God. Also, Anselm argues that an existent God is greater than a non-existent God. If God were non-existent, then we could imagine an entity greater the nonexistent God and this existent God would be greater than nonexistent God. But the argument against Ontological argument by Douglas Gasking is based on the ‘Greatness of nonexistent creator of world’. Douglas argues that creation of the world is the most marvellous achievement imaginable and the achievement becomes more impressive with the disability of the creator. If we think of an existent creator of the world, we can still think of a greater being that might have created everything around us without even existing. Therefore the incredible creator God is …show more content…
The existence of God might be an idea or a reality but what people believe is what they see, what they experience -some of them may be the things that are taught by family, society, etc. They don’t focus on whether God exists as a being or not but they believe in the power that the name God has. They believe in the strength that they get when they remember God in hard times. They believe in the comfort and peace that they get when they feel God. They believe in their own perception of