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It is only through hearsay, ramified and lasting over thousands of years, that we have knowledge of God, neither through a clue of reason nor through a form of intuition or feeling. Therefore, separateness from the finite subject belongs to the one who or which is called God. Especially because of that, the question whether God exists is the paradigm of a truth that is not verified by coherence of opinions but only by actual correspondence. This, from the beginning, connects philosophy, insofar as it is concerned with the guiding star of truth, with the question of God. Particularly, there are three rational guidelines that have always drawn the philosophical attention to the question of God: (1) the comparision and putting into contrast of the mortal with the immortal; (2) the attempt to sufficiently reason what is in need of reason; (3) God as a kind of speculative subjunctive of philosophical reflection. With regard to all these three guidelines, both positive examples from the history of philosophy and possible sceptical reserves shall be exercised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]