Keywords - Arguments for the Existence of God

• Analogy

  A comparison between two things
• A posteriori

  An argument that is based on experience
• A priori

  An argument that uses logic
• Contingency


  Event or condition that depends on something else, which may or may not happen. Things do not contain the reason for their existence but depend upon external causes
• Deductive argument


  An argument in which the conclusion is 100% correct
• Faith


  A belief in something or someone
• Inductive Argument


  An argument in which the conclusion is probably true
• Necessary


  That God exists so truly that God cannot be thought of as not existing
• Necessary Existence

  Refers to the eternal and transcendent nature of God. God exists outside of time and space but is able to create and act within it
• Qua

  Latin word: 'as relating to
• Qua purpose


  As relating to the purpose of something
• Qua regularity


  As relating to the regular motion of something
• Reason


  Think, understand and form judgements logically
• Teleological Argument


  Design argument. Teleos means goal or purpose
• The God of Classical Theism


  God is an absolute eternal, all knowing, all powerful and perfect being
• The Ontological Argument


  Arguments for the existence of God based on the idea that the very fact that we have a concept of God must mean that God exists