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- 1. Beings are either:
- i. Necessary,
- which exists by virtue of what it is; or
- ii. Impossible
- which does not exist by virtue of what it is.
- iii. Contingent/Possible/Emergent,
- which can either exist or not exist by virtue of what it is;
- 2. The Cause of Temporal Events, "GOD",
- is defined as "existing with all the attributes of perfection" (having All-Perfection),
- which includes "unlikeness to imperfection" and entails "none of the attributes of imperfection".
- 3. The concepts of GOD "without the attribute of existence", or "with emergent existence",
- are concepts of GOD "with an attribute of imperfection".
- 4. The proposition "GOD, which has All-Perfection, exists" is either true or false by the Law of the Excluded Middle.
- 5. The proposition in 4 being false corresponds to the concepts in 3.
- 6. The proposition being false entails:
- GOD "with none of the attributes of imperfection"
- and GOD "with an attribute of imperfection",
- which is a violation of the Law of Non-Contradiction, and impossible.
- 7. Therefore, the proposition in 4 is true by the definition in 2;
- GOD, defined as having All-Perfection, must exist and is "the Necessary Being" (GOD).
- The statement "The Necessary Being is higher and more powerful than any emergent being or entity, and alone consists of all the attributes of perfection" contains elements of the Ontological Argument. The Ontological Argument is an a priori argument for the existence of God that seeks to demonstrate that the concept of God as a necessary being must necessarily exist.
- The statement "The Necessary Being is higher and more powerful than any emergent being or entity" aligns with the Ontological Argument's concept of God as a necessary being that exists independently of the material world and is not subject to the limitations of material beings.
- The statement "The Necessary Being alone consists of all the attributes of perfection" aligns with the Ontological Argument's emphasis on the attributes of perfection as a key component of the concept of God. The Ontological Argument posits that the concept of God as a necessary being can be intuitively deduced from the attributes of perfection, and that the existence of a being with all perfect attributes is a necessary truth.
- Overall, the statement "The Necessary Being is higher and more powerful than any emergent being or entity, and alone consists of all the attributes of perfection" contains elements of the Ontological Argument by positing the existence of a Necessary Being that is not subject to the limitations of material beings and that consists of all the attributes of perfection. This aligns with the Ontological Argument's concept of God as a necessary being that exists independently of the material world and can be intuitively deduced from the attributes of perfection.
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