God, Arguments for the Existence of Arguments or proofs for the
Existence of God have been proposed by philosophers,
theologians, and other thinkers. These arguments have an
epistemological dimension (how can one know that God exists?)
and an ontological dimension (what is the nature of God’s
being?). If God is conceived as the Supreme Being, Being-itself,
the source and Creator of all beings, or in other similar ways,
the question of his existence is of primordial importance. It is
indeed paradoxical that there would be a need to prove the
existence of this Being of all beings, yet that is precisely the
situation philosophers and theologians find themselves in, since
God cannot be perceived by human senses. The overall theistic
explanation is that God transcends finite forms of being and
thus cannot be reached directly by finite human minds, although
indirect rational proofs may be possible. The opposite position
concludes that God cannot be perceived because he simply does
not exist. This leads to the essen