Descartes Proof Of God's Existence

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Proof of God’s existence and Human error.
In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God (John 1:1). This is an indication that there is a supreme being on the surface of the earth. As the controversy usually goes on which came first the hen or the egg? So too there has been a lot of the same controversy on how the world come in to existence. Did the world came first or God and does God really existence?
Many philosophers have tried to proof the existence of God but I am going to based on Descartes’ two proof of God’s existence; In the meditation four, Descartes proof that God does exist because we have the idea of God been a perfect being. “In fact the idea I clearly have of the human mind insofar …show more content…

He begins this hypothesis by mentioning the ideas of certain things which are outside of him, have their own truth and natures. He made us to understand that he can’t think of a mountain without a valley. And that he doesn’t say that there is a mountain or a valley anywhere but whether or not it does exist, a mountain and a valley are inseparable. The fact that he cannot think of God except as existing, follows that existence is inseparable from God. So God does exist. Since he knows these ideas clearly, he claims that they are something and are true. Descartes states that those that he can evidently and particularly perceive are the only things that totally convince him as being true. From this concept, he constructs a logic which supposedly proves his hypothesis; the clear and distinct perception of the undoubted existence of God means that existence is inseparable from God (p 89). Also, the bible also proof the existence of God when he led the Israelites out of Egypt and when they got to the red Sea, it was only by the Power of a super natural being to path the sea . That is the power of God which shows that God does exist (Exodus 14).
They are two distinct examples which try to bring out the existence of God and they both in their own aspect kindly show us various ways in which God does exist. So to me both of them are …show more content…

This proofs that even though man have a perfect God, there are some errors man do make. As humans, “we are a thing that thinks, that is to say, a thing that doubts, affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, wills, refrains from willing and also imagines and senses”. Descartes brings out our short comings as humans. We are all full of these especially doubt. In mediation three, Descartes brings out mans error by evident of doubt “And certainly because I have no reason for thinking that there is a God who is a deceiver, and of course I do not yet sufficiently know whether there is even a God” (p 71). We see that he acknowledge that there is a no reason to think that God is a deceiver and at the same time, he doesn’t even adequately recognize whether there even is a God that exists. We face a lot of same situation in our daily life as to how we doubt the existence and present of the supreme God. Doubting make man to faulty thinking and imagination of who God actually is or if he exist in the first

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