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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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