A Logical Proof Of The Existence Of God

(By William S. Hatcher, Ph. D.)

Logical Conclusion

All rational understanding of the structure of reality is based on the causality relation, which holds between two phenomena A and B whenever the phenomenon A is a cause of or produces the phenomenon B. (This latter implies that whenever A occurs B must also occur: we cannot have A without B.) On the basis of three purely logical properties of the causality relation, we deduce logically the existence of a unique uncaused, universal cause G. G is thus an objectively-existing, self-caused entity which has generated, either directly or indirectly, every other existent. G is therefore God - the unique Creator of all existence.

Moreover, our three logical principles are all universal propositions, which therefore do not directly posit the existence of anything. Thus, anyone (an atheist) who denies any of these principles must affirm their negations and thereby commit himself to belief in the objective existence of certain abstract entities. We thus conclude that nihilistic atheism - disbelief in the existence of any abstract entities whatever - is untenable on the basis of pure logic alone.


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