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- We have ideas of many things.
- These ideas must arise either from ourselves or from things outside us.
- One of the ideas we have is the idea of God—an infinite, all-perfect being.
- This idea could not have been caused by ourselves, because we know ourselves to be limited and imperfect, and no effect can be greater than its cause.
- Therefore, the idea must have been caused by something outside us which has nothing less than the qualities contained in the idea of God.
- But only God himself has those qualities.
- Therefore God himself must be the cause of the idea we have of him.
- Therefore God exists.