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Proof That God Exist Research Paper

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Hilda Kisame
Prof. Matthew Mayberry
October 26, 2017

Proof of God’s existence There are various philosophical and theological arguments for the proof of the existence of God. However, atheistic perspective declines to acknowledge that God do exist. I cannot totally debit that; there must be an absolute reality (God) responsible for the orderliness and meaning of materiality of the universe and the world. Our purposiveness and being does not ordinarily have meaningless, there must be that IS. That which IS –is- IS which we should labor to justify proving its meaning and reality to our universe. In order wards, our mental categories cannot absolutely finish this reality. Our investigation into this proof may require metaphysical knowledge derived from our material existence. There are a wide variety of arguments used by theists in their claims that their god exists, most of them purporting to prove that a single, personal, creator-god exists. Some are deep and philosophical; some are much more down …show more content…

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