Theism: belief in the existence of God.
Here is how to become a theist via philosophy through logical necessity:
>1
Recognize that if ever there was nothing, nothing can spontaneously come into being. ex nihilo nihil fit; nothing comes from nothing.
>2
Recognize that something exists. If you're not satisfied with looking out your window and affirming that the world is really there, try thinking. If you have capacity to think, you exist. Cogito, ergo sum; I think, therefore I am.
>3
Recognize the law of causality. Every material effect must have an adequate antecedent or simultaneous cause. So, everything that exists either exists in and of itself, or is produced by something else.
Given these, the only answer that satisfies all three is the existence of a first uncaused cause. That cause is God.
If you weren't before, you are now a theist.
