To understand the argument for the existence of God, we first define the usage of God in this paper. God is the greatest conceivable being who is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent. He is capable of knowing everything and doing everything, and has perfect goodness.
In the ontological argument, Anselm defined God as the greatest conceivable being that nothing greater than Him can be conceived. Suppose God exists in the mind alone. It is better for Him to exist in the mind and in reality than to exist in the mind alone. If God exists only in the mind, then we can imagine that there is something greater than Him. However, we cannot imagine something is greater than God since it will have a contradiction to the idea of God as the greatest conceivable being. Therefore, God exists in reality.
Existence is a good thing. Imagining that my future husband will be a better one if he is attentive than if he is not. It will be even better if he exists than if he is not. Since God is the omniscient, omnipotent, and …show more content…
Suppose God is omnibenevolent, omnipotent, and omniscient that we have defined in the beginning of the paper. An omnibenevolent being always eliminates as much as evil as possible. An omnipotent being has the power to do anything. An omniscient being knows what is going to happen. If God possesses the Omni-characteristics, He always stops as much as evil as possible, has the power to do so and to know what is come. He eliminates all evil; however, evil exists in reality. Then God could not be omnibenevolent, omnipotent, or omniscient which the greatest conceivable being