Riddles of Existence

But wait! Anselm points out that there is no possible way for us to form a concept of any being that is greater than the greatest conceivable one. The GCB is the greatest being that we can conceive of—it says so right in the concept itself. Therefore we cannot conceive of a greater being. Yet in the situation just described, we are supposed to be c

‘Anselm's ontological argument’.1 In one version or another, ontological arguments are particularly appealing to many philosophers. This appeal has something to do with the remarkable fact that we are supposed to be able to find out, just by thinking correctly, all that we need to know to see them prove their point.

Here is an answer: only almighty God is great enough for self‐creation. So God can exist without having something else as a cause. Anything other than God has to have help in order to exist.

He inferred that there must be some first cause of the existing effects. The argument concludes that the first cause of all is the creator of the universe, God.