Argument For God's Existence, Part 2 (Introduction to Christian Apologetics - 4)
Channel: The Nerdy Apologist
Date: 2020-05-07

In which I argue for the divine attributes.

Videos about the scammers that left comments on my last video:
https://youtu.be/exJl7wkS9ao
https://youtu.be/KRhUUKiSa6U

The rest of this playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlrsbP15P6U&list=PLcpVk6ma2Yaxwxjd5hlw6pyYmWtOfAitH

DEFINITIONS:
Actuality/act - the state of being in the real world. For example, the hotness of hot water is in actuality.
Potentiality/potency - the state of possibly being, but not actually being. For example, hot water is potentially cold, so it has coldness in potentiality.
Essence - what a thing is. For example, the essence of a circle is a group of points the same distance from another point.
Existence - that a thing is. For example, if I draw a circle, then that circle has both an essence and existence.
Principle of causality - that no potentials are actualized except by something that is already in a state of actuality

Principle of Proportionate Causality - that all effects must be in their causes in some way. There are three ways an effect can be in its cause, as laid out in Dr. Feser's book – formally, virtually, and eminently. To illustrate this, he uses the example of a man giving another man $20. An example of an effect being in its cause formally is one man having a $20 bill and giving it to the other man, because the first man had the form of owning a $20 bill and caused the other man to have exactly the same form. An example of an effect being in its cause virtually is one man writing a $20 check and giving it to another man, because the first man does not have the form of owning a $20 bill, but he is able to get hold of one. An example of an effect being in its cause eminently is one man printing $20 bills and giving one to another man, because in this case, the first man has the power to create $20 bills at will. Most fundamentally, it is in this way (eminently) that all effects are ultimately in God.

SOURCES:
Five Proofs of the Existence of God by Dr. Edward Feser:
https://www.amazon.com/Five-Proofs-Existence-Edward-Feser/dp/1621641333/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1588888402&sr=8-1

Summa Theologiae, much of Prima Pars:
https://www.newadvent.org/summa/1.htm

Summa Contra Gentiles, much of Book I:
https://isidore.co/aquinas/english/ContraGentiles1.htm

Video from Mathoma on the argument from change:
https://youtu.be/bevBRz5Dpn8?t=1117

Video from Mathoma on the analogy of being:
https://youtu.be/lMV9QU-XzLM

Video from Classical Theist on the argument from essence and existence:
https://youtu.be/YrXjmHdA1tg?t=1429

Video from InspiringPhilosophy on the problem of evil (he goes over why philosophers no longer argue for the logical problem of evil, but instead argue for the evidential problem of evil):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei0gPoqx_bQ