for the source from which I had learned to think of something more perfect than I was, and I plainly knew that this had to be from some nature that is infact more perfect".(Cress, pg-19). Through this proposal, he states that since every effect has a cause, the idea of God must also have some cause or basis. Since the cause cannot be less than the effect; any value or reality in effect must also be present in the cause as well. Nothing can come form nothing; which it's self is a self evident truth. Since effect cannot have, therefore, greater reality than the cause. So the idea of God, which is of an infinite being, cannot arise from a mortal, a finite being. The idea of infinite must therefore be due to the existence of an infinite, which must have placed this idea in him. Thus, proving his theory of the existence of God. From the nature of the perfection that God is, Decartes comes to conclusion that God is the ultimate causeless cause. Decartes holds that the innate idea of God that rises in the mind is sufficient proof of God's having made man in His own image. God's existence is the precondition of the existence of all other things, including the individual souls, and also of His idea in the human mind. Since there cannot be an idea of God without the existence of God. God is incorporeal, intelligence, all-knowing, good and just. He is omnipotent, eternal. He has no changes, no modes of attribute, no modifications....
