THE ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT (8 of 8 notes)

Part Three
Theology Proper: 16 PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker

St. Thomas Aquinas objected to Anselm’s argument on the basis that it assumed that we could know the nature of God (that He is a perfect Being) before knowing whether He existed. He said that we must first establish His existence by other means, and then we could employ St. Anselm’s argument to arrive at a knowledge of God’s perfection. Until God’s existence is proved the Ontological argument was only an uninteresting hypothetical observation that if God is a perfect (that is, a necessarily existent) Being, then God necessarily exists.”

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