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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Proving God's Existence from Sense Experience

After the Communist Wall went down in the early 1990's many former communists were athiest materialists and had a difficult time figuring out Christianity. Thankfully, however, it is possible for a materialist to have God's Existence proven to him or her, starting with sense experience. Following the work of Aristotle and Aquainas you can conisider the fact that motion operates in the material world based upon sense experience. For example, if you observe a game of billiards on a billiard table you can see that the billiard balls move when pushed or hit by another ball or the cue stick. From this you can logically conclude that motion exists and operates. You can also deduce that for every movement there must be a movement that causes the movement, that is, there must be some motion that causes the motion. If you then work this back in time to can see that either there is an infinite regress of movements or motions, or, there is an Unmoved Mover, namely, God, who is the Source of all Movement. The other option, which is an infinite regress of movement is impossible because the infinite cannot be contained within the finite, and thus an infinite regress cannot be contained with a finite universe. Given the foregoing, we can follow the traditional definition of God, that God is Good. The Good is defined as including all of that which is positive for God and human beings: Existence, pleasure, joy, very good food, clothing, home, positive values, transportation, liberty, recreation, entertainment, vacation, fulfilling hobbies or work, etc.

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