Descartes Third Meditation Summary

In the third meditation, Descartes tells why he believes his idea of God must be innate. He believes this idea must be innate because it didn’t come through his senses and it isn’t a fiction of his mind. Although we cannot comprehend God, we can reach God through thought because we do have an idea of him.
To begin, one reason Descartes believes his idea of God must be innate is because the idea did not come through his senses. Descartes says his idea of God is never presented to him unexpectedly like other things he learned with his senses. He also says this idea was not presented to the external organs of his senses. To continue, another reason he believes this idea is innate is because he did not make up this idea of God. Descartes believes