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@Dr.Franklin
If you are going to use this argument then you want to make it clear it is a modal ontological argument for others to understand where the deduction comes from.
That being said, please prove P1. Good luck.
2. If it is possible that a maximally great being exists, then a maximally great exists in some possible world.3. If a maximally great exists in some possible world, then it exists in every possible world.
55 days later
Please refute the points I made in #101 and #103
This is my argument:P1: A being that convinces more people that it exists is greater than one that convinces less people of its existence.P2: Since the MGB is the greatest being, it would convince everyone that it exists.P3: I am not convinced that the MGB exists.C1: Since there is at least one person that is not convinced of the MGB's existence (me), it cannot be the MGB.C2: The MGB does not exist.P1 is the bread and butter of the argument. If you agree with P1, then P2 would naturally follow (from the very definition of the MGB). P3 is true, unless you say that I (somehow) secretly believe in the existence of the MGB, even though I stated that I don't. And the conclusions follow from all three of the premises.Also, it is explicitly written in the Bible that God is the only true deity, and anyone who believes in other deities is destined for eternal damnation. With that in mind, if God had the ability to convince everyone of His existence, then why hasn't he done so, if He doesn't want to send people to eternal damnation? Or does He want to do that?
Another problem with the argument:1. It is possible that a maximally great being exists.2. If it is possible that a maximally great being exists, then a maximally great exists in some possible world.3. If a maximally great exists in some possible world, then it exists in every possible world.4. If a maximally great being exists in every possible world, then it exists in the actual world.5. If a maximally great exists in the actual world, then a maximally great being exists.6. Therefore, a maximally great being exists.Premise 1 states that it is possible that a maximally great being exists in some possible world. That is, I can think of a possible world that the MGB exists in. Since the MGB is in the realm of possibility, then it is also possible to think of a world where the MGB doesn't exist.But if we go to premise 3, it states that the MGB exists in every possible world. That is, it is impossible to think of a possible world where the MGB doesn't exist, since it exists in every possible world.Premise 1 and premise 3 contradict each other.