augusine

Augustine’s basis for believing in God is a simple idea: humans’ want for the truth by way of reason. What he says is that because we have this characteristic of reason, different from every other creature on this earth, we are made to seek out the truth of everything. We all know what wisdom is, but, by no fault of our own, it is difficult to attain. Augustine believes that people who think God does not exist are faulty in their search for truth because they are failing to look at the bigger picture: that there has to be only one thing that encompasses everything, that everything comes from, and that one thing has to be God. Augustine uses the analogy of the number one to illustrate this argument: “…any material object…surely has a right and a left, a top and a bottom, a near side and a farther side, ends and a middle. We must admit that these parts are present in any material object, however tiny, and so we must concede that no material object is truly and simply one. ...