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Arguments for the Existence of God: The Rational Arguments (10)
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Paul Jang
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Other Arguments
There are a few arguments for the existence of God except for the traditional arguments: The ontological argument, the teleological argument, the cosmological argument, and the moral argument.
For examples, they are the historical argument, the ethnological argument, the anthropological argument, the religious argument, geographical argument, the aesthetical argument, and the argument from congruity.
These arguments are related to one another, for examples, the historical argument was related to the ethnological argument and anthropological argument to the cosmological and teleological argument like this.
The Historical Argument
This historical argument is referred from the historical fact that all nations has had the belief in the Highest Being (Supreme Being: God). This argument has been supported by Aristotle (Metaphysics XI, viii), Cicero (De Legibus, I, viii), and Grotius (Calvin, I, 12).
The Geographical Argument
This geographical argument is the proof that we try to geographically and biologically prove the existence of God. This argument can be explained as this: there have been a number of the animals and plants throughout the world. They have been living and breeding according to a mysterious law, and by the way, we cannot have proved the origin of their natural coming into being, i.e., their creation. This is the very strong premise that there is an absolute Being beyond the necessity.
The Ethnological Argument
This ethnological argument is inferred from the analysis and explanation of man himself, and proved the existence of the Creator, God.
The Religious Argument
This religious argument for the existence of God is inferred from the religiosity of man. God Himself makes man religious by means of sensus divinitatis, i.e., the sense of the Divine, which He causes to strike the chords on the harp of his soul (Kuyper, 1987, 46). Therefore, Man has, in nature, the religiosity toward God.
All races have the idea of God. Therefore, man does, by nature, seek and worship God. This is the instinct toward God. This is an evidence that there is an absolute God behind the man and the world. There is no races without the religiosity of God across the ages and countries of the world. Therefore, it can be said that "God exists."
The Aesthetical Argument
This aesthetical argument is the proof inferred from the discovery of the beauty and dignity in the universe, from which it proves the Creator who has the esthetic love and a merciful heart. All things including man and animals are the creatures which God created in the beginning.
The Argument from Congruity
The argument from congruity is inferred from the belief in the existence of God that it has explained the facts of man's nature and the facts of the universe.
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Introduction
Theology 