Expert: Marco - 11/24/2004

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Greetings!

Not so sure how to follow up on this question Marco...

One of the things you wrote was "I exist, therefore God exists and He is the Creator of my own existence."
If i can go back to logics, the fact that "i exist" would be a smaller premise than that of God's.  Therefore, how can you deduct from a smaller premise that which would greater?  God?!
It makes me think of St. Anselm who once wrote "I have an  idea of God, there can not be a greater idea than God and so God exists!"

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Dear Fr. Daniel,

My sentence "I exist therefore...." was only a radical synthesis of my thought, which differs from St. Anselm's argument. My point is in fact that man does not own in himself the capacity to generate his own psychical life and therefore man must receive his psychical life from a superior Being Who owns in Himself the capacity to create psychical life. This is again a radical sinthesys of my thought which can be developped as follows: I define God as the necessary Cause of the existence of my psyche. This definition is sufficient to me to prove some attributes of God.

1) First of all, the fact that God has the capacity to create our psyche, while we, not only are unable to create any psyche, but we need be created in order to become to exist as conscious persons, proves that God is  infinitely superior to us; there is an abyss of superiority, separating God from us, which is equivalent to say that God is transcendent to man.

2) Since God is the Creator of us, He must have existed before us and He must exist independently from us; His existence does not depend on us, while our existence depends on Him.


3) Since God has the capacity to create our intelligence, our consciousness and our will, He must be intelligent, conscious and He must have a will. In fact, since  God is superior to us and He is the Creator of our own capacities, He must have at least our own capacities. Besides, since God is the Creator of our own mind, He must know us perfectly.

4) Since God is superior to us, He must have a superior capacity to love.

These considerations prove to me that the necessary Cause of the existence of our psyche is necessarily a personal, conscious and intelligent God.

A second independent argument proving the existence of a personal intelligent God is the following:

Science has proved that the universe is ruled by some specific mathematical principles and equations, the laws of physics. However we know that mathematics cannot exist by itself, but it exists only as a thought in a conscious and intelligent mind. In fact, a mathematical equation is only an abstract concept, which existence presupposes the existence of a person who conceives such a concept.  
Therefore, the existence of this mathematically structured universe does imply the existence of a personal God; this universe can exist only if there exists a conscious and intelligent God conceiving it . Some people object that the mathematical equations are not the principles ruling the universe, but they are only a representation imagined by man. This argument however does not stand, as we can easily understand with the following consideration: if the universe did not have an intrinsic mathematical structure, one couldn't explain how it is possible to described so precisely all mechanical, electrical, magnetic, chemical and biological phenomena only by the same system of mathematical equations. Since one century, we observe a systematic confirmations of the laws of physics, in our numberless studies on newer and newer systems and materials. Consider that it is possible to invent infinite different mathematical equations, which wouldn't be able to describe the processes we observe in nature. It is not possible to justify the extraordinary agreement between the experimental data and the laws of physics without admitting that the universe (what the phylosopher Kant called "noumenal" or "thing-in-themselves" reality)  must necessarily be ruled by some specific mathematical laws. It is not possible to justify the existence of this mathematical structure of the universe without admitting the existence of a personal, conscious and intelligent Creator.

I hope this may clarify my thought.

Anyway I am very interested in your opinion.
Thank you very much for writing,

Yours in Christ,

Marco