Many readers follow Descartes with fascination and pleasure as he contends in the midst of all the skepticism in the first two Meditations. Descartes refutes the skeptics by means of his famous axiom, “cogito, ergo sum”. From this premise that a clear consciousness of his thinking proved his own existence, he argued the existence of God. However, many readers find themselves baffled and repulsed when they come to his proof for the existence of God …showed first 75 words of 3112 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3112 total…of God. Surely I believe that God exists, but the ontological, cosmological, or whatever the argument may be, are not sufficient in proving an Omnipotent, Omniscient God. “Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him” (Hebrews 11:6). I think this is an appropriate place to bring skeptics and believers into accordance, thus I end my essay.