Metafizikos Onus Probandi
Onus Probandi of Metaphysics

Summary/Abstract: In the second article the second way of proving God’s existence is considered. The logical form of this way is the copy of the first one but the content is quite new, for it proves not the existence of the first unmoved mover but the existence of the first absolutely immutable maker. In the frameworks of Aristotelian picture of the world (but not in the Christian one) it is quite possible to claim that the first unmoved mover moves as final cause but perhaps there is no such Weltanschauung which would accept the claim that the first efficient cause causes its effects in a same manner as the final cause moves. But the immutability principle inherited from pagan Greek philosophy (Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle) and incorporated in Christian philosophy demands that God would create and recreate the world while remaining absolutely immutable. Even more than that, it demands to preserve absolute divine immutability of descending, incarnating, living, dying, resurrecting, ascending and promising to come again God. This is too much for elementary logic and common sense. Therefore the first two ways to prove Gods existence taken together have to be recognized as the corruption of Christianity by pagan philosophical principle of immutability.

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