Q&A: The Ontological Proof
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The Ontological Proof
Question
Hello Rabbi Michael, can you explain to me in simple and clear language (I really didn’t manage to understand it that well) what the ontological proof for the existence of God is?
Answer
This is a proof based on the assumption that God is the most perfect being we can conceive of. And if He does not exist, then there is a more perfect being we can conceive of—namely, a being that also exists. That contradicts the assumption that He is the most perfect being, and therefore it is clear that He exists.
If you want to discuss it, you’re welcome to read the first dialogue in my book The First Existent, where I dealt with this argument at much greater length.