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The Situational Proof for God's Existence

An extension of Aquinas' and Leibniz's cosmological proof

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Mar 13, 2021
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The polymath Gottfried Leibniz made a cosmological argument for God's existence, which is an extension of St. Thomas Aquinas’s cosmological (or contingency) argument. There is another way of stating this same argument, as a situational-cosmological argument:

Axiom: We have limited time.

1.) Therefore, in each moment we have at least two mutually exclusive options.

2.) Therefore, in each moment we prioritize one option over the other/s.

3.) Therefore, in each moment prioritization itself is inevitably one of the options; we can either prioritize and use our limited time well, or we can not prioritize and waste our limited time.

4.) However, we are unable to prioritize prioritization of our own personal will power, because that would require having all the reasons for our own priorities within ourself. It is self-evident that we do not have all the reasons for our own priorities within ourself, otherwise we would have omniscience. 

5.) Conclusion: Since we do not have all the reasons for our own priorities within ourselves, we necessarily derive the reasons for our own priorities from a force greater than ourselves, in order to use our time well. That force which is greater than ourselves, which has all the reasons for our own priorities, all people call God.


If you deny (5.), then either you must either deny 

(4.) in which case you have omniscience, or you must deny 

(3.) in which case you do not use time well, or you must deny 

(2.) in which case you admit that something else prioritizes for you, or you must deny 

(1.) in which case you can prioritize more than one option at once, in which case you have omnipresence, or you must deny 

the Axiom, in which case you admit eternal life.

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