A Need for God
It seems to be part of our human nature to compulsively want to justify our existence. I understand this to be the reason for the creation of religion in all cultures. At the center of all religions there is a being we usually call God, the Creator of everything that is. Over time and still today, there is much debate as to whose God is the greatest and whether or not God actually exists. Evidently, these debates have caught the attention of philosophers, whose job is to find the truth of the matter and convince an audience through rational arguments. As a result, many rational arguments have been constructed to prove the existence of God .
Generally, these are classified in either of the following categories: the ontological argument, the teleological argument, the cosmological argument, or a cost/benefit analysis. The ontological argument seeks to prove the existence of God solely using rational claims, whereas the teleological argument uses mostly empirical ones......
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