Lord, help us to understand that all thought, reality, and understanding comes from you. When speaking of what is in the beginning, one must start with where all things begin. The idea of God has been in the hearts and minds of men since the beginning. Man interacts with what is outside of itself and has the capacity to abstract the nature of objects and realities. The highest reality which civilization has ever thought of is the possibility of God or gods. This possibility seems to have always been in the hearts and minds of every civilization. Since the most ancient civilizations up until this point in time, religion can be found in some shape or form in every culture. Although there have been many different names of gods, the idea that there…show more content… The first part is the main argument which resides in chapter two of the Proslogion. It argues that God truly exists. It begins with a prayer and an act of faith, and then introduces the argument that flows from the psalms. Psalm 69 addresses “the fool has said in his heart ‘There is no God’” (Hyman, p. 162). The fool is Anselm’s companion in this argument, for one needs to be convinced or refute what another brings forth as questionable or truthful, otherwise there is no need for an argument. And what Anselm knows to be true is that there is “something that nothing greater can be thought of” (Hyman, p. 162). Anselm affirms that the fool would say this does exist in the understanding, even if they do not know what it is or if it exists in reality. From here the argument follows that if there is in the understanding “something in which nothing greater can be thought” then this “something in which nothing greater can be thought” must exist in reality. The reason for this is that all things that exist in reality are therefore greater than the things that only exist in
