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« on: May 26, 2004, 03:56:35 PM »
Because among things there are some that are more beautiful, better (more good), truer (more true), and
some things that are less beautiful, less good, less true, etc. ¬
And because something is "more" or "less" only as it resembles something else which is the maximum/the "most,"
... there is something which is the most beautiful, best (most good), truest (most true)-something perfect, and this could only be God
Because things in nature which do not have 'intelligence and knowledge act in a consistent way,
And because a thing without intelligence and knowledge cannot act consistently unless it is directed by some being endowed with intelligence and knowledge, as the arrow is shot to its target by the archer, ...
some intelligent and knowledgeable being exists by whom all natural things are directed, and this could only be God.
Because if God does not'exist to create the universe, then there' would be infmite time,
And because with infinite time every possibility is eventually actualized,
:. if God does not exist; then every possibility is eventually actualized.
Because every possibility is eventually actualized if God does not exist,
And because things can both exist and not exist at different times,
:. one possibility is the simultaneous non-existence of all things.
Because one possibility is the simultaneous non-existence of all things,
And because if God does not exist, then there would be infinite time,
.'. the possibility of the simultaneous non-existence of all things
would have taken place by now.
Because the simultaneous non-existence of all things would have taken place by now, . And because that which does not exist only begins to exist by something already existing,
:. by now nothing would exist.
Because things do exist now, :. there exists something which cannot both exist and not exist at different times¬something which much exist at all times, and this being could only be God.
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