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Anselm's Definition Of God
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Anselm's definition of "God" starts by saying that God is the greatest
being we can possibly think of. When Anselm states this, it essentially
means that it is not possible to think of a being greater than God.
Anselm also states that if God is the greatest thinkable being, he is
r .... Middle of Paper .... means that God depends on nothing else for his
existence, he is uncaused. Therefore, his existence is timelessly-eternal.
This means that God cannot stop existing. On the other hand, contingent
beings (such as ourselves) depend on something else for their existence.
One example of this is, that as a child we utterly depended on our parents
for food, clothing, and shelter. Contingent beings therefore can begin to
be or cease to be at anytime. They can, unlike God, be here today and gone
tomorrow.
Anselm uses the definition of God (the ....
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