The Ontological Argument For The Existence Of God

The Existence of God & The Evil in us All

1- Does God exist? (Anselm vs. Gaunilo) (Bertrand Russell)

Does God Exist? St.Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury “The Ontological Argument” claims to both prove and disprove God’s existence. However this arguments possess a certain sense of ambiguity, meaning that it can be interpreted in different ways and therefore come away with more than one sensible conclusion towards the existence of God. In this paper i will delve in to each argument and give reasons as to how these arguments either disprove or support a belief in God.

Firstly there is that of “The Ontological Argument” a pivotal movement in the belief and understanding of a greater being (God). The main thrust of this argument is that “God
As we debate the existence of God, we must acknowledge that of which is not pleasant nor false, the persistence of evil in our modern day world and the hope for an answer to all the pain and suffering of mankind, a modern day example of an attempt to explain that of which we seek for, is that of Bruce Russell’s “The Problem of Evil”. In this paper i will analyze and delve in to the key arguments made by Bruce Russell to prove his theory of the non-existence of God.

“The Problem of Evil” is today known as the best known argument towards God and his absence in the moral world. This notion of God and his absence, is a modern day problem for a greater part of the worlds “ordinary people” and even for the most learned philosophers, who are all puzzled as to how God in all his wisdom and all-being would sit by and permit all the evil in the world. A popular argument that Bruce Russell makes towards the existence of of all evil, and in turn the non-existence of God is that of:

1. If in fact God exists, there would be no excessive evil in the
Yet we acknowledge, witness, and in some cases carry out this evil in day to day lives, and still some believe in God.

Premise 1 can and is most likely the most contested and argued point, due to the initial fact that God may allow all this evil and suffering so as to bring about some sort of good. Yet whats must be disputed is the amount of Evil that exists, is this insurmountable amount really leading to some sort of a brighter future? However, the facts remain the same and all that can be said is that we do not know what the least amount of evil is that would have to be allowed to bring about some good, though God indeed would if he existed.

Following the basis of the amount of evil in the world, we switch to premise 2, undoubtedly the one premise that can least be argued against, due to its simply stating that there is excessive evil in the world, which we can simply prove by turning on the t.v, or even looking out ones window. However basic and straightforward Premise 2 is, it opens up two possibilities to why there is so much excessive evil in the world,the first as stated by Bruce Russell is that “there is no point; it is genuinely pointless suffering”, and the second being that God sees a point that we simply cannot or do not