Calvin/Aquinas Natural inclination to believe in God

[Ale Martinez]

The former post, sadly, lost its essence. So, I will restate here, to debate it seriously and rationally:

“There is within the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, an awareness of divinity. This we take to be beyond controversy. To prevent anyone from taking refuge in the pretense of ignorance, God himself has implanted in all men a certain understanding of his divine majesty. . . . Men of sound judgment will always be sure that a sense of divinity which can never be effaced is engraved upon men’s minds. Indeed, the perversity of the impious, who though they struggle furiously are unable to extricate themselves from the fear of God, is abundant testimony that this conviction, namely, that there is some God, is naturally inborn in all, and is fixed deep within, as it were in the very marrow.” John Calvin

We are naturally inclined to form an idea of God or Divinity. There is nothing out there in the phenomenal world in which can learn via senses or experience that there is such properties as Omnipotence, Infinite, Eternalness. Those ideas and concepts are within our cognitive faculties since we´re are born. . When triggered we encounter some idea of the divinity. Calvin’s basic claim is that there is a sort of instinct, a natural human tendency, a disposition, a nisus to form beliefs about God under a variety of conditions and in a variety of situations. What is called calls a "sensus divinitatis" or sense of divinity, which in a wide variety of circumstances produces in us beliefs about God. These circumstances, we might say, trigger the disposition to form the beliefs in question; they form the occasion on which those beliefs arise. Under these circumstances, we develop or form theistic beliefs—or, rather, these beliefs are formed in us; in the typical case we don’t consciously choose to have those beliefs. Instead, we find ourselves with them, just as we find ourselves with perceptual and memory beliefs. (You don’t and can’t simply decide to have this belief, thereby acquiring it.) And later on are triggered by external incentives such the admiration of beauty. Calvin replied with an common example:

"Even the common folk and the most untutored, who have been taught only by the aid of the
eyes, cannot be unaware of the excellence of divine art, for it reveals itself in this innumerable
and yet distinct and well-ordered variety of the heavenly host. It is, accordingly, clear that there
is no one to whom the Lord does not abundantly show his wisdom. (I, v, 2, p. 53)"

[Impenitent]

who designed the watchmaker?

-Imp

[Ale Martinez]

It would be interesting if you could explain why we have this natural tendency to form the idea of God in many circumstances.

[Impenitent]

it is taught

-Imp

[Ale Martinez]

It is not.

Another answer?