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[³í¹®] THE ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD IN CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS (¿µ¹®) (40)
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✝✝✝ A DEMONSTRATION OF GOD AND THE ARGUMENTS
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF CHRISTIAN GOD IN CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS (40)
by Dr. Paul B. Jang (Ph.D. Christian Apologetics) (¿µ¹®) ✝✝✝

CHAPTER II

REVIEW OF THE LITERATURES:
PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK OF THE
CONCEPTS AND EXISTENCE OF GOD
THE ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD.

Rational Arguments:

Other Arguments

There are a few arguments for the existence of God except for the traditional arguments: The ontological argument, the teleological argument, the cosmological argument, and the moral argument. For examples, they are the historical argument, the ethnological argument, the anthropological argument, the religious argument, geographical argument, the aesthetical argument, and the argument from congruity.

But these arguments are related to one another, for examples, the historical argument was related to the ethnological argument and anthropological argument to the cosmological and teleological argument like this.

The Historical Argument

This historical argument is referred from the historical fact that all nations has had the belief in the Highest Being (Supreme Being:
God). This argument has been supported by Aristotle (Metaphysics XI, viii), Cicero (De Legibus, I, viii), and Grotius (Calvin, I, 12).

This historical argument has been explained by Charles Hodge as follows:
That is, we have historical evidence that the race of man, for example, has existed only a few thousand years. That mankind has existed from eternity is absolutely incredible. Even if we adopt the development theory, it affords no relief. It only substitutes millions for thousands of years. Both are equally insignificant when compared to eternity....we are shut up to the conclusion that the universe sprang out of nothing, or that there is a self-existing, eternal, extramundane Being. (Hodge, 1973, 211)

The Geographical Argument

This geographical argument is the proof that we try to geographically and biologically prove the existence of God. This argument can be explained as this: there have been a number of the animals and plants throughout the world. They have been living and breeding according to a mysterious law, and by the way, we cannot have proved the origin of their natural coming into being, i.e., their creation. This is the very strong premise that there is an absolute Being beyond the necessity (Hodge, 1874, 1973, 212).

Charles Hodge develops the geographical argument as follows:
That the extant genera of plants and animals inhabiting our earth, began to be within a comparatively short period in the history of globe. That neither experience nor science, neither fact nor reason, justify the assumption of spontaneous generation. That is, there is no evidence that any living organism having life, already existing.

Genera and species are permanent. One never passes into another. A fish never becomes a bird, nor a bird a quadruped....If these principles be conceded, it follows that all the extant plants and animals on the earth began to be. And if they began to be they were created, and therefore must be a Creator. (Hodge, 1973, 212).

The Ethnological Argument

This ethnological argument is inferred from the analysis and explanation of man himself, and proved the existence of the Creator, God. To this argument Louis Berkhof explains as follows:
Among all the peoples and tribes of the earth there is a sense of the divine, which reveals itself in an external cultus. Since the phenomenon is universal, it must belong to the very nature of man. And if the nature of man naturally leads to religious worship, this can only find its explanation in a higher Being who has constitute man a religious being. (Berkhof, 1971, 27)

The Religious Argument

This religious argument for the existence of God is inferred from the religiosity of man. God Himself makes man religious by means of sensus divinitatis, i.e., the sense of the Divine, which He causes to strike the chords on the harp of his soul (Kuyper, 1987, 46).

Therefore, Man has, in nature, the religiosity toward God.
All races have the idea of God. Therefore, man does, by nature, seek and worship God. This is the instinct toward God. This is an evidence that there is an absolute God behind the man and the world. There is no races without the religiosity of God across the ages and countries of the world. Therefore, it can be said that God exists.

The Aesthetical Argument

This aesthetical argument is the proof inferred from the discovery of the beauty and dignity in the universe, from which it proves the Creator who has the esthetic love and a merciful heart. All things including man and animals are the creatures which God created in the beginning.

The Argument from Congruity

The argument from congruity is inferred from the belief in the existence of God that it has explained the facts of man s nature and the facts of the universe. To this matter, Henry C. Thiessen says as follows:
This argument is based on the belief that the postulate which best explains the related facts, is probably true. As related to the present discussion it runs as follows: The belief in the existence of God best explains the facts of our mental, moral, and religious nature, as well as the facts of the material universe; therefore God exists. It holds the without this postulate the related facts are really inexplicable. (Thiessen, 1976, 62). ❤❤❤

- to be continued -..



 

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