Limitations of the Arguments towards the Existence of God

The western conception of god is defined as the superme being that is all-powerful, all-knowing, omnipresence, perfection, all-loving and most kind. Although monotheism like Christian believe God which is perfect existed and they propose several arguments to prove God’ existence, however there are no evidence to show that god actually exist. Atheists suggested those arguments provide insufficient reason to believe. Furthermore, some arguments propose that it is possible to disprove the existence of God, or of certain characteristics attributed to God. This article will be discuss the limitation of some arguments for the existence of god and propose some arguments against god’ existence.

limitation of arguments for the existence of god

After the decline of the Roman Empire, the papacy became a political player and Christianity spread among the Europe. From the Middle Ages up till now, many monks and Scholars try to prove the God exist and their arguments can be divided into four categories including ontological arguments, cosmological arguments, arguments from design and pragmatic arguments.

Ontological Arguments

Ontological argument was first proposed by St. Anselm of Canterbury in 11th century. It is an argument for God’s existence based on reason and without experience or observation. Anselm suggested that a concept should exist only in mind, or both in mind and reality.

Anselm proposed that the word of “God” exist Implied God exists as a concept in our mind. If God exists only in our mind, there will be a greater being can be conceived in the mind and reality. Therefore, if we can conceive a being which nothing greater can be conceived, it must exist in reality. Since Anselm defined God is a being that perfect and no great...

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...eople that he exists. Furthermore, the idea of polytheism still deaminate in the eastern world.

The argument from poor design

Although scriptures proposed that God create human by his own image, however, it seen that human is quite poor designed.The argument from poor design argued that a all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving God would create organisms that have optimal design. However, all living organism is poor designed. Therefore, God has not create organism of God is not all-powerful, all-knowing and all-loving.

Take human as example, human body contain numbers of defect which may cause life dangerous. The human appendix is a vestigial organ without any purpose, however, without medical treatment, appendicitis could resulted in deaths. Furthermore , only humans cannot synthesize vitamin C by theirselves and lack of vitamin C would cause scurvy and death.