The question does God exist, is the most controversial issue of serious debate over the centuries. What is the answer to this question? Many contributed their ideas and views to this challenging question from the time of the Greek philosophers to our present century. We Christians believe in the existence of God. Can we prove what we believe? The goal of this paper is to answer the question is it possible for us to prove the existence of God with our reason? Let us see the different views of the existence of God.
2. Different views of the existence of God
Though the idea Of God and his existence is universal, it does not mean that there are no one denies the existence of God. There are many different views on the existence of God. Let us see some of them briefly.
2.1 Total denial of the existence of God
Though the idea of God is universal presence in the mind of the humans, some goes to the idea of denying the total idea of the existence of God. These people are called as "Atheists." We can divide these people into two groups. The first ones are those who are godless persons who live in their practical life as there is no God. The other ones are those who are denying the existence of God because of their reasoning and more intellectual kind.
2.2 False concepts of the existence of God
In our present day there are some wrong concepts about the existence of God which oppose the theistic idea of the existence of God. Louis Berkhof divides them under three categories.
2.3.1 An immanent and impersonal God
Deism does not that God is in the world and it stresses more on his transcendence at the expense of his immanent. Pantheism though identified God and the world, refuses to recognize God as a divine being.
This idea leads to the concept of pluralism and not to monotheism. Polytheism and henotheism holds this view of finite God or gods.
2.3.3 God as the personification of a mere abstract idea
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