the struggles of Faith and Reasoning…..sound’s like a sitcom!!!! :D

Descartes is a very fascinating individual for me in the sense that he is trying to view the world totally from the point of view of Thought. He gets a lot of bad rep because of this, because most people then just assume that Descartes is out to show that faith is then uneeded because of a lack of physical proof, however it is actually quite the opposite. Rene Descartes does believe in Cogito Ergo Sum or, “I think, therefore I am,” but it is because of this manner that he proves the existence of an almighty, perfect creator, or God. This can be reference, by the way, in his works titled, “Meditations,” which takes some digging to get the full argument, however I feel it is well worth both the research and read.
He first starts with what he considers the Formal Argument, in which he states the world and the ideals behind it involving the perfection, worth, and judgment of an object and it’s purpose and flaws. in this argument there are two realities,; a formal reality and an objective reality. In the formal reality, it is what we as the thinkers perceive and judge something into a finite summary of how useful it is, skillled, some of it’s flaws, etc.. The Objective view is then the actual usefulness, flaws, skills, and all the rest. All this comes together to judging people, places, and things. However, you can’t put God into this category. In fact, God in all aspects is infinite, therefore there cannot be a finite view of God. Then in the objective reality, God is perfection, so there is nothing that God can be compared to that would show any of this that we could possibly understand. I personally feel this goes back to something I heard a couple years back, “imagine how God really is to you. Put him in that box of what you think he is. Do you have it? I bet it’s wrong. In fact, all of our thoughts are wrong, and way off. God is so wonderous, poweful, loving, and father. He’s not just that, he is THE wonder, THE power, THE love, and THE father. He is what all these terms are compared to.” It even deepens God’s roots by asking, “How do we know what perfection is? This idea cannot have just popped in our head if only by experience?” God had to have imbdued our souls and minds with what IS perfect, and the only way to do that is to have experienced something perfect to know that perfect existed, and thus God was our experience. A Perfect God created us.
Descartes then goes into a Cosmological Argument, which takes on the question, “How do I exist?” he states that it is safe to assume that we have not existed the whole time, we had to have been born, therefore we had to be created. We can also say that we did not create ourselves, at least not physically, because if we had then we would have worked out all the imperfections we feel we have, and therefore make a perfect being to our liking. Our parents certainly did not directy make us, because they would have, in turn, created us in their thought of perfection. However, God created us, because he is perfect and he created us as lesser, imperfect being in our thoughts because to him we are perfectly made. This is further supported when you think about when we create something. It is never perfect, especially nowadays when we try to create artificial beings who can work and perform tasks and give off theimpression of adaptive and sentient thought. They still lack emotions and vital organs that we have, so we can never fully create something, only something in our IMAGE, which is what God did.
These two arguments not only validate the perfection and existance of God to me, but also validate Reason. Descartes may not have had the most accurate thoughts, or the most practical, however he did have some of the more inspirational ones.