Argument from desire
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The argument from desire is an argument for the existence of God. The argument was widely used by noted Christian apologist C. S. Lewis.
The argument, as summarized by Peter Kreeft, can be expressed as follows:
- Every natural, innate desire in us corresponds to some real object that can satisfy that desire.
- But there exists in us a desire which nothing in time, nothing on earth, no creature can satisfy.
- Therefore there must exist something more than time, earth and creatures, which can satisfy this desire.
- This something is what people call "God" and "life with God forever."
Links
- Kreeft, Peter and Ronald Tacelli. The Handbook of Christian Apologetics. 1994. [1]