RATIONAL AFFIRMATION OF GOD’S EXISTENCE IN MEYER’S REALIST HERMENEUTIC METAPHYSICS

Abstract

The debates on the certainty and uncertainty for the existence of God have been the major thrust of contemporary philosophical engagement as results of emotivist and relativist epistemic traditions, as they are hinged on the evaluation of human religious practices and epistemic conditioning. They have been problematic on the basis of their linguistic and pragmatic connotations of human attributes to God. The belief of the existence of God outside the workability of human senses remains epistemologically problematic. Hence, the paper tries to explicate the criticisms and assertions for the existence and authoritative claims of the attributes of God as the Ultimate Metaphysical Reality in Ben Meyer’s Realist Hermeneutic Tradition/Metaphysics. Meyer observes that the general God-talks have not been done outside the realm and domain of science and its claim of exert methodology in establishing and verifying facts, especially in relation to indispensability of truth. Therefore, the paper recognises that theology has been seen as an established science, especially by its tool of rational hermeneutics, by the virtue of it being methodological and rudimentary in attaining certain knowledge through faith and revelation that are enlightened by reason, under the pavilion of Truth, which is God, the author of knowledge, despite the gravity of the human limitedness in certainty.