As maximally perfect, as that than which no greater can be conceived, God must be a metaphysically necessary being, one that cannot not exist. A necessary being is one whose possibility entails its existence, and whose nonexistence entails its impossibility.
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plato.stanford.edu/entries/divine-simplicity/
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Cosmological argument - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The cosmological argument is an argument for the existence of a First Cause (or instead, an Uncaused cause) to the universe, and by extension is often used as an argument for the existence of an "un...
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Part I: A Necessary Being ... The necessary being proof is a much stronger proof used to prove God's existence along the same lines as the First Cause proof. This proof has to do with contingent facts and necessary truths. Facts can be separated into either of these two categories.
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www.msu.edu/~millettf/God/3.html
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Considered under its metaphysical aspect, being in its relation to existence is divided into necessary and contingent. A necessary being is one of which the existence is included in and identical with its very essence.
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www.newadvent.org/cathen/10733a.htm
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This is our second part in a review of Professor Winfried Corduan's cosmological case for God. Corduan argues that the God of Theism is the only logical Necessary Being. ... 3. A necessary being would have to be God...
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protestantism.suite101.com/article.cfm/god_as_the_neces...
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SUBJECTS are outlined and discussed. ... He argues that since all existent things depend upon other things for their existence, there must exist at least one thing that is a Necessary Being. Some standard objections to that argument are also briefly discussed.
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philosophy.lander.edu/intro/necessity.shtml
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No. 3 God - A Necessary Being? ... not created by anything else and therefore not dependent upon anything else; yet a necessary being for other beings to exist. ... Click here to comment on God - A Necessary Being?
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www.philosophers.co.uk/cafe/rel_three.htm
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contingent beings: those that might not have existed (P 52a) ... necessary being: that which is not capable of not existing. ... Richard Lee, rlee@comp.uark.edu, last modified: 13 September 199...
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www.uark.edu/campus-resources/rlee/intrau00/oh/contingt...
www.uark.edu/campus-resources/rlee/intrau00/oh/contingt.html
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I may thus be obliged to admit that all existing things have a necessary basis, while I cannot cogitate any single or individual thing as necessary. In other words, I can never complete the regress through the conditions of existence, without admitting the existence of a necessary being;
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www.rbjones.com/rbjpub/philos/classics/kant/kant129.htm
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