Grounds of Religious Faith and The Existence of God

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             regarding God itself. The following are some of the general arguments for the existence of God.
             The first argument comes from the theory of design; there are orders in the universe which
             can't be occurring by mere chance. Secondly, the existence of God explains the arguments
             regarding the efficient causality; as the world exhibits orderly causal sequences, something had to
             start it all up. Thirdly but not the least, God provides an answer to the question of the origin of
             life and its destination after death. ( For the sake of convenience, we shall borrow some
             theological ideas from Christianity.) As an example, God is the creator of all, and there is a place
             in heaven, a kingdom of God, for those who have faith in God. This helps believers understand
             their identity and alleviate the fear of death.
             Now then, let us look upon how Descartes responds to the question of what God is?
             Descartes' hypothesis on his theory starts with the idea of a God who is eternal, infinite,
             omniscient, omnipotent, benevolent, and perfect. In his earlier Meditations, he claims that God
             may be a deceiver; he, however, concludes later that God is a non-deceiver because an act of
             deceit would be an attribute of moral imperfection. According to Descartes, this idea of a
             supremely intelligent and supremely powerful being, who created everything that exists, can not
             and does not come from within him who is imperfect. It is that this perception did not originate
             from the experiences of the world, nor was this drawn from t
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