I have proven nothing.
Aquinas' Arguments
(as Summarized by Kreeft)
God's Definition
About Time
Concluding God's Existence from Time's Beginning.
"Not Proven":
I welome your argument or comments. But before you decide that God does not exist, I must ask if you do not want God to exist. This can affect a person's thinking and actually sway him from impartiality, which is unfortunate.
Secondly, I ask that before you give up, you examine all three main proofs carefully and impartially: the two from Aquinas, and mine.
Now then, if you have examined -without pessimism- the argument
and the objections and replies to premises, choose which part of
the argument you wish to speak about:
God's Definition,
the section on time, or
the conclusion.
Aquinas' Arguments:
If you have difficulty with the argument from design, then I ask that you first read Epictetus' paraphrase. This might save me the trouble of quoting him to you in response to your email about it.
Finally, if you have not read the objections and replies to my argument from time as I asked, please do so before emailing. It will save you time and save me from retyping what I have already written for you.
I get so much email, I must request these things.
Have you done what I requested? Yes.
No.
God Defined:
If you wish to argue from the perspective of one of the Eastern Religions, please read first my Treatment of Eastern Religions. I probably answer your objection there.
If you wish to argue from the Bible that God should not be thought of as being outside of time, please click here before emailing. I deal with this matter there.
If you have not read the objections and replies to premise 1 of my argument from time, please click here to read it.
I get so much email, I must request these things.
Have you done what I requested? Yes.
No.
Time:
Before emailing me, please make sure you have read my clarifications and replies to common objections by clicking on premises 3, 4, and 5 in my main proof.
I get so much email, I must ask this.
Have you done what I requested? Yes.
No.
From Time's Beginning to God:
Some people agree that history had a beginning in this universe, but they still wish to speak of time as having being cyclical, either in the sense of the Eastern Religions' "Samsara" or the big bang - big crunch theory of certain cosmologists. If this is you, please read read my clarification and replies to common objections to premise 5 first.
Otherwise, please do read my replies to objections against (6) and (7) of my argument before sending me mail. Then, by all means!
I get so much email, I must request these things.
Have you done what I requested? Yes.
No.