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This is a 7 page paper presenting a possible dialogue regarding arguments about the belief in the existence of God. A theoretical dialogue between a theist (T) and an atheist (A) includes various arguments in regards to the belief in the existence of God including reference to works by C.S. Lewis, Richard Taylor, Anselm, W.T. Stace and Alan Watts among others. While several of the fundamental arguments are denied by the atheist, overall a denial of belief of the existence of God cannot be maintained based on most of the theist’s arguments relating to the fact that through reason, intuition and moral actions, people have come to believe in something which exists outside of the natural world yet remains influential within it; a belief in the existence of God which cannot be denied.
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to works by C.S. Lewis, Richard Taylor, Anselm, W.T. Stace and Alan Watts among others. While several of the fundamental arguments are denied by the atheist, overall a denial of
belief of the existence of God cannot be maintained based on most of the theists arguments relating to the fact that through reason, intuition and moral actions, people have come
to believe in something which exists outside of the natural world yet remains influential within it; a belief in the existence of God which cannot be denied. T: One
of the most fundamental arguments in regards to the existence of God was presented by Anselm in the 11th century, known as Anselms ontological argument and it is based on
one of the basic ideas of conception of God. Firstly, God is the greatest thing that can be conceived. Second, if God did not exist, something greater than God would
exist. Third, but no greater thing than God can be conceived. Finally, because the second point is in contradiction to the first point, then the second point cannot be true.
Therefore God must exist (Gijsbers, 2003). A: The problem with posing Anselms argument is that he has given no reference to anything within the world and has merely tried to
argue Gods existence within its own definition. Without any sort of relationship with other concrete statements, the entire argument is dependent upon its own assumptions which cannot be used analytically.
Simply put, "one cannot infer the extramental existence of anything by analyzing its definition" (Gijsbers, 2003). Secondly, Anselm states that "God is the greatest thing that can be conceived" and
that "The greatest thing that exists is not God" are contradictory. This is simply not true. People are able to conceive of God whether or not he even exists as
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