QUESTIONING THE EXISTENCE OF GOD- BY CLEMENT ERNESTERICK

What's the best argument for the existence of God? Professor Jimmy Atkin argues that the best argument is contingency argument, while some seconding the Kalam's cosmological argument.

From the series I recently did on Genesis 1:1-3, I've considered both these arguments and St. Aquina's five ways and I must submit that these arguments were arguments from finest of minds.

These are arguments that are well founded from the Scripture right from the very start: "In the beginning..."

In the synoptic gospels, the toledot; pedigree of generations offered by Sts Matthew and Luke, takes the argument of infinite regress back to the very God from whom creations take their origin.

The limits of these arguments however rests in the fact that argument of infinite regress is an impossibility from high philosophical and theological reasoning. Why? Because God lacks contingency: He is not born but the begetter. He simply is.

That's why Genesis is very particular and offers literary high angle; 'In the beginning, God created heavens and the earth,' destructing duality, polytheism, process theological pontifications, pantheism, penentheism, Monophysitism etc.

God is one (Whole): An All in all.

© CLEMENT MWAKA ERNESTERICK

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