Nietzsche's Argument For The Existence Of God

The debate of whether God exists or does not has been going on from the time of the ancient philosophers such as St. Aquinas and St. Anselm, who both supported the existence of God, whereas, many years later there were those who tried to disprove the arguments presented. Some of these disbelievers include Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche and David Hume, all whom argue that God does not indeed exist. Although God is considered dead and nonexistent by many, he does indeed exist because something must have existed in the beginning, he inspires goodness and faith in his subjects and he is perceived as the perfect being, who must exist in order to be considered perfect.
It is impossible for something to exist without the existence of God, as
Nietzsche believed that society had evolved past God and God was no longer the moral example for people, in other words, God was dead to the people. Furthermore, Nietzsche argued that the people killed God, due to the indifference to God’s existence, as people transitioned from the belief in faith to the belief in rationalism and science. “Companions, the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks - those who write new values on new tables.” (Nietzsche 22) Therefore, due to the cultural shift, Nietzsche suggested that people must write their own values and not just follow a dead God, who’s values are no longer relevant to the new
In the book “Proslogion” by St. Anselm, he argues that God must be a perfect being, as if he is not, then one can always imagine a more perfect being, however that being impossible, as nothing can be greater than God. “Therefore, Lord, not only are You that than which a greater cannot be thought, but You are also something greater than can be thought. For since it is possible to think that there is such a one, then, if you are not this same being something greater than You could be thought-which cannot be,” (Anselm 96) The point that Anselm was trying to make is that God is thought of as being the most perfect being, however if he was only in people’s imagination, then something would be able to be greater than him, which is impossible. In order for God to be perceived as the most perfect being, he must exist outside of people’s minds. The same type of justification was used by Renée Descartes in his book “Meditations on first philosophy”, where he further elaborated that God is a perfect being and that existence is a predicate for perfection, meaning that without existing, God could not be perfect. “While from the fact that I cannot conceive God without existence, it follows that existence is inseparable from Him, and hence that He really exists; not that my thought can bring this to pass, or impose any necessity on things, but, on the contrary, because the necessity which lies in the thing