Fwd: This is your strongest argument

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The following is from SP. Any comments?

 

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there is the mother and the children. The mother is the material world, and

there are so many forms of children. So when the mother is existing and the

children are existing, then the father must exist. Without father, how there

can be children? This is your strongest argument, that these foolish

philosophers contemplate without God, or “God is dead,” or so many

godlessness in different way, but our philosophy is strong on the fact that

there must be creator of this family, mother and sons. The father must be

there.

 

full text:

 

Hayagriva: Aquinas gives five arguments for God’s existence. The first is

that there must be a first cause, a first cause of everything. The second is

similar in saying the material world cannot create itself but requires

something external or spiritual to bring it into existence. And the third

argument claims that because the world exists, there must be a creator

capable of bringing it into existence. The fourth states that since there is

relative perfection in the world, there must be absolute perfection

underlying this relative perfection. And the fifth is the argument from

design: because the creation has design and purpose there must be a designer

and planner. So at this time they were very concerned with arguments for the

existence of God, and Aquinas gave these five.

Prabhupada: Yes. We also forward these kinds of arguments. Just like we say

that there is the mother and the children. The mother is the material world,

and there are so many forms of children. So when the mother is existing and

the children are existing, then the father must exist. Without father, how

there can be children? This is your strongest argument, that these foolish

philosophers contemplate without God, or “God is dead,” or so many

godlessness in different way, but our philosophy is strong on the fact that

there must be creator of this family, mother and sons. The father must be

there.

 

Philosophy discussion Srila Prabhupada-Thomas Aquinas

 

 

 

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