Is the Question of God Meaningful or Meaningless?

Is the question of God meaningful or meaningless?

Introduction:

We realize that many people, both believers and nonbelievers, doubt that God's existence can be demonstrated or even argued about. An effective rational argument for God's existence is an important first step in opening the mind to the possibility of faith—in clearing some of the roadblocks that prevent people from taking the idea of divine revelation seriously. Here we are to answer “Is the question of God meaningful or meaningless?” Of course the believers would answer yes. But here we are to explain why God is meaningful. The question of God is meaningful for we can only find the meaning of things, meaning of everything around us, and the meaning of life itself thru God. The obvious fact of efficient causality, degrees of perfection, and possibility and necessity can explain to us why the question of God is meaningful.

Body:

i. Argument from Efficient Causality

Point: Nothing can be the cause of its own existence, or be causally responsible for its own existence.

Reason: Everything exists because someone or something causes him to exist. But the chain of causes of things coming into existence cannot be infinite. There is something which brings things into existence but was not itself brought into existence.

Example: Existence is like a gift given from cause to effect. If there is no one who has the gift, the gift cannot be passed down the chain of receivers, however long or short the chain may be. If everyone has to borrow a certain book, but no one actually has it, then no one will ever get it

Point: If there is no God who has existence by his own eternal nature, then the gift of existence cannot be passed down the chain of creatures and we can never get it. But we do get it; we exist. Therefore there must exist a God: an Uncaused Being who does not have to receive existence like us—and like every other link in the chain of receivers.

ii. Argument from Degrees of...