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The Existence Of God, Lawrence Coughlin
The Existence Of God, Lawrence Coughlin
Bachelors’ Theses
The proofs regarding the existence of God are of two kinds - the indirect and the direct. The former show that one's knowledge of God's existence is a necessary outcome of his rational being, while the latter present God to us as the only ultimate Sufficient Cause of the physical effects we perceive within and around us. Consequently, the indirect proofs are known to us as the moral argument, since they concern themselves with man's rational being - his intellect, and the direct proofs are termed, the metaphysical, because His existence as the ultimate Sufficient Cause is required by the …