Can you prove Gods attributes using reason?

Question 1

Cosmological Argument

Answer 1

Aquinas presents the argument in “three ways” but the argument is one.

This is the argument for causality:

1. ) Everything which exists must have a cause of existence
2. ) There cannot be an infinite chain of causes stretching back into the past
3. ) There must have been some first cause uncaused by anything else
4. ) Thus, we call It God “the uncaused cause”

Question 2

COA for Cosmological Argument

Answer 2

Quantum Physics suggests that at a subatomic level there may be random movement

Uncaused Existences in the subatomic level

Science is Inductive

Who caused God?

Question 3

Kalam Cosmological Argument

Answer 3

The argument, in its simplest form, is that
(i) Whatever begins to exist has a cause of its existence,

(ii) The universe began to exist,
(iii) Therefore, the universe has a cause of its existence

Question 4

COA Kalam Cosmological Argument

Answer 4

Analysis
“Explanation of parts is sufficient”
“The Causal principle is spurious”

Merely explaining the pars is unsatisfactory  Circular Logic

If we can think of something not having a cause then it can not have a cause

The causal Principle is also wrong because if something is conceivable doesn’t make it real

However, Mackie helps Hume out by saying that “It has only methodological utility and lacks ontological justification”

Question 5

Simplicity

Answer 5

On the classical understanding of God, the simple God’s actions are identical to one another such that there is only one divine act.

For example, God’s act of creating the universe is identical to God’s act of predestining to save the elect.

Proponents of divine simplicity go further and say that this one divine act is identical to God’s essence and existence.

In other words, God is the one divine act

According to the classical theism of Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas and their adherents,

God is radically unlike creatures and cannot be adequately understood in ways appropriate to them.

God is simple in that God transcends every form of complexity and composition familiar to the discursive intellect.

Question 6

COA of Simplicity

Answer 6

The problem is that if god is hisattributesthen he must be a mixture ofessence and existence meaning god has reality it means we canexperience him throughsenses.Which means god is atangableobject that we can understand. God is nottranscendent as we cancomprehend him meaning he is not everything which creates theproblem that he is not simple