Imagination

The poetry of the Bible is beautiful and powerful. It has been written with imagination, and it needs to be read with imagination. - Knut Heim

I recently read an article that was very thought-provoking on this topic. The author re-invented the hypothesis that Saint Anselm did, in the eleventh century. That is: what if we could use our imaginations to prove the existence of God? Here is the breakdown: Saint Anselm began with one fact: that we can use our imaginations to think of God, who is unimaginable.

Next, Anselm claimed that God is beyond anything we could ever imagine.

Lastly, he stated that it is greater to exist than to only be imagined.

So, we can say that God exists in our imaginations and then we can recall the statement that it is greater for God to exist in reality. Remembering the first fact that God is greater than anything we can ever imagine.

Conclusion: God must exist in reality because if He only existed in our imagination then we could think about something that is greater than God. And by definition here, God has to be greater than anything we can imagine. So God exists.

There are holes in this approach, of course, but it is an interesting theological experiment. None of us can prove the existence of God. It requires our deepest faith.
The heart has its reasons which reason cannot comprehend. It is the heart which knows God, not the reason. -Blaise Pascal