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#This something is what people call "God" and "life with God forever."
#This something is what people call "God" and "life with God forever."
A distinction is made between the two different types of desire, the innate and externally conditioned, or natural and artificial. Natural desires, such as the desire for food, drink, or sleep, come from within us. They also exist in all of us, but the artificial ones vary from person to person.
C. S. Lewis summarized it in this way:
{{cquote| Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for these desires exists. A baby feels hunger; well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim; well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire; well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. ''Mere Christianity, Bk. III, chap. 10. '')}}
== Links ==
== Links ==
* Kreeft, Peter and Ronald Tacelli. ''The Handbook of Christian Apologetics''. 1994. [http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics/desire.htm]
* Kreeft, Peter and Ronald Tacelli. ''The Handbook of Christian Apologetics''. 1994. [http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics/desire.htm]
[[category:Arguments for the existence of God]]
[[category:Arguments for the existence of God]]