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Chapter 3

In chapter three, Hart's argument is in favor of the existence of God. The beginning of the book was setting up his philosophical  approach to his argument. Hart explains the existence of God through experience, which will be denoted into the phrase "experience of being."  This is vital because it reminds us that God is the deity that created every being, which is why there is a possible reason to his existence. He does not take the naturalism approach but instead defends God in the actuality an fullness of being. God is also seen as a perfect being which catches the reader's eye because we are groomed to think that God is perfect including everything that he made. Hart writes, "God is not composite and so is indissoluble, he is infinite and unconditioned and so is not dependent on anything else, he is eternal and so does not come into being." Of course we all know that an actual "being" can not live forever so he is not an actual being, but he is the being who created us and is the Alpha and Omega and everything revolves around him. He is basically everything which we cannot put a form to which is why He is so great. This argument is an argument that many people would agree to because this is what the majority of people are taught. Atheists on the other hand, I do not believe would side with him because of his "being" argument.

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  1. AnonymousOctober 14, 2017 at 4:19 PM

    I really appreciate your insight into Hart's reading. One of the points that I struggled in understanding was the portion that you bring up on "experience of being". It still is somewhat confusing of a concept to me. In your next point of how we are groomed to believe in God's perfection and all of His creations, I find myself asking the same thing that Hart asked towards naturalism. If God is not a 'being', then he must exist outside of a 'being'. Similarly to how if naturalism cannot explain its existence, then the answer must be found outside of naturalism.

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