This page will list articles in which I discuss various necessitating factors for the existence of God (or of whatever the unknowable thing happens to be in that particular discussion or whatever).

By "necessitating factors", I mean something that is claimed to be proof of the existence of some unknowable thing. This is sort of what people are doing also when they claim that all the evil in the world proves that there must be a devil....or conversely that there must not be a God. Obviously to anyone using critical thinking, there are some very unwise and clearly unnecessary leaps going on in this kind of thinking. Also, there is most usually some sort of circular argument involved somewhere along the way.

an Example
Here is an example I use in one of the articles below to explain how a necessitating factor (love) is used in a circular argument trying to prove the existence of God.

Here it is in slow motion.....
1. An unsubstantiated claim for the existence of a person or power outside of knowable reality
I claim that God exists, but I have no proof.

2. Introduction of a necessitating factor
I claim that some thought, concept, feeling or other thing could only be produced by God.

3. The circular argument comes full circle
I claim that the existence of the thing in step 2 is proof of the existence of God since there's no other way for it to come about without God having been in existence in the first place.

Hopefully you can see right through that kind of thinking too.


Some of these articles were specifically written with the intent that they would be part of this section of my web site. Others are simply part of some other section which happens to deal with this issue at some point within the article. The ones that are directly created for this section originally are marked with a red letter o after the title (if I recall to do this when it comes time).

Is God the only Source of Love?