The Book of the Bible give us reason for an Ontological Argument and helps us believe that God exists...The Ontological Argument relies on our own reasoning to believe in God...The Bible presupposes that God exists throughout the entire book as the Godly Inspired Authors write about our Father in Heaven...The many different authors all write about an All Powerful God and how He exists and His Necessary Divine Existence...The authors wrote of their experiences and interpretations of the Holy One...The authors believed in a Supremely Perfect Being, called God...The writers thought it was extremely possible for God to exist, and therefore, He existed...By these authors belief, we believe that God formed the universe by His Command, and so the things that were not seen and were nothing are now seen as the Creation of God...Without this belief and faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him, so they can believe in Him...So when we carefully considering the Argument it does lead us to different ideas that strongly support the existence of God...As we think about the fact that we do have standards for morality, suggests something very close to the premises of the Ontological Argument...The Argument implies there is only One Perfect Being for whom the argument would work, anyway: One Perfect Being Ultimately Perfect in every possible way—and that Being would be God...
So there is an argument for God, which is called the Ontological Argument...Brittanica.com writes: Argument that proceeds from the idea of God to the reality of God...It was first clearly formulated by St. Anselm in his Proslogion (1077–78); a later famous version is given by René Descartes...Anselm began with the concept of God as that than which nothing greater can be conceived...To think of such a being as existing only in thought and not also in reality involves a contradiction, since a being that lacks real existence is not a being than which none greater can be conceived...A yet greater being would be one with the further attribute of existence...Thus the Unsurpassably Perfect Being must exist; otherwise it would not be Unsurpassably Perfect...It may be possible (or impossible) to prove the existence of God, but it may be unnecessary to do so in order for belief in God to be reasonable...Perhaps the requirement of a proof is too stringent, and perhaps there are other ways of establishing God’s existence...Chief among these is the appeal to religious experience—a personal, direct acquaintance with God or an experience of God mediated through a religious tradition...Some forms of mysticism appeal to religious tradition to establish the significance and appropriateness of religious experiences...Interpretations of such experiences, however, typically cannot be independently verified...This is among the most discussed and contested arguments in the history of thought...
Mathematician and Philosopher Rene Descartes believed that we could learn knowledge through our intuition...Descartes wrote: But if the mere fact that I can produce from my thought the idea of something entails that everything which I clearly and distinctly perceive to belong to that thing really does belong to it, is not this a possible basis for another argument to prove the existence of God?...Certainly, the idea of God, or a Supremely Perfect Being, is one that I find within me just as surely as the idea of any shape or number...And my understanding that it belongs to His Nature that He always exists is no less clear and distinct than is the case when I prove of any shape or number that some property belongs to its nature...But if the mere fact that I can produce from my thought the idea of Something entails that everything which I clearly and distinctly perceive to belong to that Thing really does belong to it, is not this a possible basis for another argument to prove the existence of God?...Certainly, the idea of God, or a Supremely Perfect Being, is one that I find within me just as surely as the idea of any shape or number...And my understanding that it belongs to His Nature that He always exists is no less clear and distinct than is the case when I prove of any shape or number that some property belongs to its nature...
Professor and Philosopher William Lane Craig says this about the Ontological Argument: The ontological argument goes something like this: God is, by definition, the Greatest Conceivable Being...Now, what would the Greatest Conceivable being be like?...Well, He would be Omnipotent, He would be Omniscient, He would be all-good, and He would be necessary in His existence—He would exist in all possible worlds...Now, if such a Being is possible, that means that a Being like that exists in some possible world...But you see, if a Being of that nature exists in even one possible world, then It exists in all of them, because that’s part of what it means to be the Greatest Conceivable Being...But if It exists in all of them, then It exists in the actual world...Therefore, God exists...So, the argument is basically: if you think that God’s existence is possible, then it follows that God exists...So, do you think it’s possible that God exists?...Well, I do...It seems to me that the concept of a Being who is Omnipotent, Omniscient, Morally Perfect, and necessarily existent is a coherent concept that’s possibly instantiated, and therefore, I believe that God does exist...
Alvin Carl Plantinga (born November 15, 1932) is an American analytic philosopher who works primarily in the fields of philosophy of religion, epistemology (particularly on issues involving epistemic justification), and logic...In the late twentieth century he brought his ideas to the Ontological Argument...Plantinga writes this about the Ontological Argument:
1. It is possible that a Necessary Divine Being exists...
2. If a being possibly exists, then It exists in some possible world...
3. Therefore, a Necessary Divine Being exists in some possible world (from #1, #2)...
4. If a Necessary Being exists in some possible world, then it exists in all possible worlds...
5. Therefore a Necessary Divine Being exists in all possible worlds (from #3, #4)...
6. Therefore a Necessary Divine Being exists (from #5)...
C. S. Lewis in his children's book the Silver Chair writes about an evil sorceress trying to tell four characters mostly young (in his book) that their place called Narnia and the region of Overland was not a believable and not a true place or real location...Narnia to the evil sorceress was a place made up and one not to believe in...The evil one has the characters trapped underground and they need help getting away from her and her evil...
Lewis wrote in the Silver Chair, as Puddleglum puts out a fire with his foot: “One word, Ma’am,” he said, coming back from the fire; limping, because of the pain...“One word...All you’ve been saying is quite right, I shouldn’t wonder...I’m a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it...So I won’t deny any of what you said...But there’s one more thing to be said, even so...Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things—trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan Himself...Suppose we have...Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones...Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world...Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one...And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it...We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right...But four babies playing a game can make a play world which licks your real world hollow...That’s why I’m going to stand by the play world...I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Aslan to lead it...I’m going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn’t any Narnia...So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we’re leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for Overland...Not that our lives will be very long, I should think; but that’s a small loss if the world’s as dull a place as you say.”...
Lewis in a letter in October 1963 letter to Nancy Warner about his book the Silver Chair talks of this Argument for God..."Warner had mentioned that her son referenced the presence of an “ontological argument” in The Silver Chair, and Lewis replied: I suppose your philosopher son...means the chapter in which Puddleglum puts out the fire with his foot...He must thank Anselm and Descartes for it, not me...I have simply put the “Ontological Proof” in a form suitable for children...And even that is not so remarkable a feat as you might think...You can get into children’s heads a good deal which is quite beyond the Bishop of Woolwich."...