Traditional Transcendental Argument (TAG) for God's Existence
1. Knowledge (logical, moral, geometric, mathematical and scientific) is not possible if God doesn't exist (major premise of the TAG: MPTAG).
2. Knowledge is possible.
3. God exists.
The Negative Transcendental Argument
1. Knowledge is not possible if God exists.
2. Knowledge exists.
3. God doesn't exist.
Positive Trinities and Negation/Opposite of the Trinity
M.D. Rawlings and Justin Davis:
Please help me align these principles so we can centralize the focus along the same lines
Positive side: Holy Trinity
1. God = love of truth, wisdom, knowledge, universal laws of Nature/Life/Creation (including science and psychology)
2. Jesus Christ = love of justice, divine laws incarnated in man's realm of reality and experience
Embodying the laws by conscience (includes social contracts by civil laws and enforcement by the people as the govt)
3. Holy Spirit = love of humanity, harmony, peace, healing grace, wholeness uniting people on earth as one family/society
spirit of the mother church, the people as the bride receiving and embracing the Law or Lord as the husband or protectorate
Negative side
1. Satan as Fear of the Unknown instead of love of truth, selfishness, separation/division instead of unity
2. Antichrist as injustice, corruption/oppression by abuse of authority/law, false government, coercion instead of freedom,
Fear of change or loss of control to conflicting authority, Retribution, Retributive Justice as opposed to Restorative Justice which is Christ Jesus
3. False Prophet = Fear of conflict and confrontation, abusing words to reject and divide by ill will and hate,
instead of Words of Comfort to bring reconciliation and peace, sowing seeds of Unforgiveness and Bitterness
instead of sharing in Grace through Forgiveness which is the Holy Spirit
Commandments on which hang all the laws and prophets
1. To love God with all our hearts minds and souls
2. To love one another as Jesus Christ loves us
3. To love our neighbor as ourselves, i.e., realization of the church body as one in Christ
In Buddhism Two Promises on which all teachings are based
1. To develop Perfect Wisdom
2. To develop Perfect Compassion
[there is no third promise, so I would recommend adding
3. To develop Perfect Communication or community relations]
1. The Buddha = one who knows
2. The Dharma = spiritual laws and duty
3. The Sangha = peaceful order or community
In Constitutionalism
1. Judicial level of interpreting law
2. Legislative level of laws as contracts by conscience between people and govt
3. Executive level of carrying out the law for peace and justice in society
1. Freedom of speech
2. Freedom of the press
3. Free exercise of religion or free will
4. And combined, the right to due process of laws:
to assemble peaceably and petition to redress grievances to defend equal protection of interests
Justin Davis:
Since M.D. and I tend to get too elaborate,
can you please help us sort through the different sets of 3 concepts
and help align which ones the three points in TAG correspond with?
The Negative Transcendental Argument
1. Knowledge is not possible if God exists. ==> is this the False Prophet or opposite of the Holy Spirit,
to reject by divisive hate speech that promotes Unforgiveness as the one unforgivable blasphemy
2. Knowledge exists.
3. God doesn't exist ==> is this the level of Satan that manipulates fear of the unknown instead of love of truth?