St. Anselm's ontological argument for the experience of God.

            
             St. Anselm's ontological argument for the experience of God.
            
            
             God's existence may vary from philosopher to philosopher, but according to the late St. Anselm,
            
             Archbishop of Canterbury there was absolutely no doubt that God's presence is certain, and yet the
            
             philosopher desires the understanding of faith. As stated; if god cannot be thought to exist, then
            
             whomever which may be conceived, only a fool would believe that he God does not exist.
            
            
             Only a fool says from his or her heart there is no God, was the largest idea discussed in the
            
             presentation quoted by Anselm. It is one thing for an object to be in the understanding, and another
            
             to understand that objects exist, he both, has it in has understanding and he understands that it exists
            
             because he has made it. There is not a doubt that there exists a being, than which nothing greater
            
             can be conceived. And it exists both in the understanding and in reality, then, so truly than a being
            
             which nothing greater can be conceived to exist, our God? If a mind could conceive of a being
            
             better then thee, the creature would rise above the Creator; and this is absurd. God can be
            
             conceived to not exist; but in the later, not at all. For example, no one who understands what God
            
             is can conceive that God does exist; God is that than which a greater cannot be conceived. The
            
             nonexistence of that than which a greater cannot be conceived is inconceivable.
            
            
             Gaunilo's argumentative criticism claims that in the dual existence, with understanding and in
            
             reality, for this reason it must exist. For if it does not exist, any lord who really exists will be more
            
             excellent than God. If man should try to prove to that his existence should no longer be doubted
            
             and me by such reasoning that God exists, for he ought to show first that the hypothetical
            
             excellence of God exists as a real and indubitable being or spirit, or one whose existence is u...

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