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Arguments for the Existence of God: The Rational Arguments (01)
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Paul Jang
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The Rational Arguments
INTRODUCTION
The rational arguments of the existence of God had, firstly, derived from philosophy, but after that, they have been applied to the methodology of religious philosophy for the purpose of proving the existence of God in Christianity.
These rational arguments had been made habitual use of the ancient philosophers, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Anselm, Descartes, Kant, Cicero, and so on.
These arguments are use of the inductive method of philosophy, which tries to prove the existence of God by its probability. In other words, these arguments presupposed the probability of being that God may exist.
And there have been four kinds of attempt to establish the existence of God. These have been called the ontological, cosmological, teleological, and moral arguments, denoting their different starting points in the idea of necessary Being, the existence of the world, and the design, the moral law. These have been called "the traditional arguments."
These traditional arguments have been recognized while also being criticized by philosophers and theologians.
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Introduction
Theology 