Abstract

God ought to exist. Thus, He can exist. But God is not contingent. Therefore, he must exist. Define God as a most perfect being. What is most perfect is, in particular, deontically perfect. (See [4]: pp. 71, 90.) What is deontically perfect, ought to exist. Thus, God ought to exist. Atheists maintain that God does not exist. Even they should grant that a most perfect being (God) ought to exist. But what ought to exist can exist. Hence, God can exist. But God is not contingent: a contingent, most perfect being is a logical contradiction; hence, if God is contingent, God cannot exist; but, again, God can exist. Therefore, God must exist. An objection to theistic arguments is that God's existence is impossible. This does militate against arguments that establish only that God's existence is either impossible or necessary. The objection, however, will not militate against the argument presented here. Its first stage will establish that God's existence is logically possible. For a most perfect being ought to exist. The argument has two stages. Let 'g' stand for 'God exists.' The first stage is

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