I recently listened to apologist Peter S. Williams (blog) deliver this talk at the 2010 European Leadership Forum on the topic: Arguments for Theism, and finally understood the Ontological Argument for God's existence.
However, it brought up a question in my mind, which I submitted to William Lane Craig's website. I'll post the answer if I get one, but here's the question:
If the Ontological Argument assumes that God is the maximum quality of attributes of goodness and greatness:
- Which category does 'being' or 'existence' fall into? Goodness or greatness?
- If that is an attribute of greatness, could we not then use this argument to argue for the existence of a maximally great and maximally evil (instead of good) being, then conclude that that being must also exist?
Comments?
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Posted by: xinxinxiangyin | 06/27/2010 at 10:18 PM
Bob the Angry Flower has a take on the ontological argument I'd never considered before. Bacon Lovers, Rejoice!
Posted by: Robin Lionheart | 07/03/2010 at 12:24 AM
wow . what look so difficult and different? Don't hurry . you just sleep one night and everything is ok.
Posted by: Yaolz88 | 09/02/2010 at 07:10 AM