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In Defense of the Ontological Argument for the Existence of God

By Filings on Fri, 03/01/24
Bible, Theology & Philosophy
Anselm
Ontological Argument
Apologetics
Evidence of God

Why Anselm’s 11th century argument defending the reality of God as “that than which greater cannot be thought” still holds up - Gavin Ortlund

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AndyE

NewInteresting video

Tue, 03/05/24

I watched this, and even though it was long, found it pretty interesting. Overall, I believe this type of argument is weak because it doesn't start with the veracity of divine revelation, but the guy did a great job explaining how it worked.

I am one who discounts the Ontological argument, so I was very curious to see how he dealt with the so-called two major objections, Parody arguments and Kant's argument.

There were two flavors of the parody argument that he tried to refute. The first refutation regarding the best island parody I completely agreed with and it was eye-opening how the better you make the island the more and more it becomes like God. But I couldn't follow his realicorn parody refutation. Then later on at the end when he was talking about legit objections, he talked about the whole you can't think or reason something into existence argument (which seems sound to me), and I didn't really follow his refutation there, either, so I was left a bit confused by that aspect of his video.

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Topics: Series - Theology Thursday, Atonement, Satisfaction Theory, Anselm
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