The Ontological Argument For The Existence Of God

One of the most interesting arguments for the Existence of God comes from Anselm and the Ontological argument. According to the Ontological argument, there is no reason to go out and look for physical evidence of God’s existence. The ontological argument is based completely on reason and comes from the concept of a “being than which no greater can be conceived.” Anselm suggested that if such a “being” does not truly exist then a greater being can be conceived. But how does this make any sense? Nothing can be greater than a being than which no greater can be conceived. In simpler terms, what Anselm is trying to suggest is that if God is not greater than all of us, why hasn't something greater been conceived? If there was something created that was better then God, where is it? I believe what Anselm is trying to say is that there is nothing greater than God or else we
How do we decide what exists and what does not? It seems like a very simple question to answer; something that exists is something you can touch, see, smell, is breathing and has some type of life to it. However, if we consider everything that Anselm is saying we see that God is none of those things and that God is not physically something we can see or reach out and touch, however, he still exists. God is something we hold in our minds, souls, and hearts. We choose to decide if he exists in our life or not. For Kant to say that existence and non existence are identical, I think, is a little crazy. How we can we bring up this argument before we even know what seizes to exist and what does not? I believe everyone has a different view of existence. Some will believe that God exists and some will not. In my view, we will never be able to compare something that exists and something that does not, simply because we don't have a full understanding on what exactly does exist and what does