VIABILITY ARGUMENTS FOR GOD’S EXISTENCE

INTRODUCTION TO SERIES

Act 17:28  For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

THE TYPES OF ARGUMENTS CONCERNING VIABILITY OF GOD

The Arguments generally adduced by Theologians in proof of the Being of GOD are:

(1.) The a Priori Argument, which is the testimony afforded by reason.

(2.) The a Posteriori Argument, by which we proceed logically from the facts of experience to causes. These arguments are,

(a) The Cosmological Argument, by which it is proved that there must be a First Cause of all things, for every effect must have a cause.

(b) The Teleological Argument, or the argument from design. We see everywhere the operations of an intelligent Cause in nature.

(c) The Oral Argument, called also the anthropological argument, based on the moral consciousness and the history of mankind, which exhibits a moral order and purpose which can only be explained on the supposition of the existence of GOD. Conscience and human history testify that “truly there is a GOD that judgeth in the earth.”

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