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Talk:Arguments for the existence of God (view source)
Revision as of 00:36, July 5, 2008
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: Furthermore, the claim is not that the entity posited by the various forms of the Cosmological Argument is ''incompatible'' with the Christian God, merely that the CA does not go far enough to prove that it ''is'' the Christian God. God certainly is non-contingent, existed at the beginning of the universe, and is sufficient to explain the universe, but those three properties do not add up to all that God is. [[User:NosnhoJE|NosnhoJE]] 20:33, 4 July 2008 (EDT)
: Furthermore, the claim is not that the entity posited by the various forms of the Cosmological Argument is ''incompatible'' with the Christian God, merely that the CA does not go far enough to prove that it ''is'' the Christian God. God certainly is non-contingent, existed at the beginning of the universe, and is sufficient to explain the universe, but those three properties do not add up to all that God is. [[User:NosnhoJE|NosnhoJE]] 20:33, 4 July 2008 (EDT)
::Also, a note: Of course St. Thomas and many others have used the Cosmological Argument to demonstrate the existence of God. But those authors are fully aware that the Cosmological Argument by itself is not sufficient to prove that the First Cause is the Christian God. There's a lot more work to be done. That's all my edit is saying. [[User:NosnhoJE|NosnhoJE]] 20:36, 4 July 2008 (EDT)