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Aquinas Quinque Viae: Proving The Existence Of God

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“Does God exist? If yes, then why did He allow imperfections, sins, and problems in His own creations?”, “If there really is God, why there is Satan and evil?” Have you ever asked those questions to yourself? Proving something that you, yourself, have not witnessed is really a hard thing to do since you have to provide enough proofs and evidences to convince other people to believe in you. Like, how can we prove God’s existence when in fact, we cannot see nor touch Him? There are lots of people in the world and we have different beliefs and religion – Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and many more that shows that there is God. But there are different people and organizations that do not believe about the existence of God. Some believe that God …show more content…

Thomas of Aquinas’ “Quinque Viae” or the 5 ways to prove God’s existence is what we believe the most. Quinque Viae states that “God is the prime mover, the cause causer, the necessary being, the perfect being, and the intelligent designer.” In our Philosophy subject, "existence is what we perceived to exist," so if God exist, then we must look to it that He really exists. According to The Essential Truths About God, “God made human beings in His image (Genesis 1:26-27), but we are still part of the material world. Each of us had a specific beginning, and are bounded by three-dimensional experience and passing …show more content…

St. Thomas of Aquinas’ proved God’s existence with his “Quinque Viae” or the 5 ways to prove God’s existence. Quinque Viae states that “God is the prime mover, the cause causer, the necessary being, the perfect being, and the intelligent designer,” but for Immanuel Kant, “God cannot be demonstrated at all, yet neither can his existence be disproved.” Existence of God will always depend on our beliefs. We just need to remember that God is always there and we should never forget Him. Just pray and thank Him for everything that He has done for us, always and every

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Faith is the root of many actions and thereby reactions in our society, and world today. These religious practices must go through many trials and questionings from the always cynical, ever searching individuals. Due to the questioning of God’s existence, St. Thomas Aquinas and Anselm devised three arguments as was of explanation for His existence. Ontological, cosmological and teleological arguments are put forth to hopefully one day prove God’s existence. We are a people who crave for simplicity, there is nothing simple about the devout in their faith, we will look to find simpler explanations, or Ockham’s razor, for the three arguments put forth by Aquinas and Anselm.

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God 's existence has been a continuous debate certainly for centuries. The issue of God 's existence is debatable because of the different kind of controversies that can be raised from an "Atheist as being the non-believer of God" and a "Theist who is the believer of God". An atheist can raise different objections on the order of the universe by claiming that the science is a reason behind the perfection of the universe. In Aquinas 's fifth argument, he claims that the order of the universe cannot be explained by chance, but only by design and purpose. To explain this order of the universe he concludes that, there is an intelligent being whom we call "God".

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In Saint Thomas Aquinas argument the second way, Aquinas argues for the existence of God, making use of efficient causes and premises to help us conclude that God exists. In the following words I would argue that Saint Thomas Aquinas’s argument formulated in the second way leads to a valid argument, which concludes that there must be a first cause and that God exists. Aquinas second way is an argument that God is the first cause and he is essential to everything on earth because nothing would have the power to fuel its self without the intermediate cause which is God. An example is a painter using a paintbrush to paint as he moves his hand, paint is applied on the wall but if he stops, the paint would not fly from the brush to the wall, stopping

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The argument for God’s existence is that God is a perfect being, he is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent, and supremely powerful. Descartes goes on to talk about how God exists because he can conceive of him as better than himself (AD 40). God is perfect and perfect at everything, and was the first thing that sent everything into motion (AD 45). God is the ultimate cause.

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1. God is said to be omnibenevolent, omniscient, and omnipotent. Many arguments have attempted to prove the existence of God and in my opinion, none of the arguments succeed in actually proving the existence of such a god. However, there is one argument that, if it worked, would be the best in proving the existence of God which is Saint Thomas Aquinas’s argument. Aquinas tries to prove God’s existence in five ways with the first being the argument from motion.

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“Just by Thinking about God We Can Know He Exists” Summary & Response The article Just by Thinking about God We Can Know He Exists recounts the experience of Anselm, an 11th -century Italian philosopher who is now referred as St. Anselm. He sets up an imaginary argument, called the Ontological Argument, to prove God's existence. He believes that God is so superior that “nothing greater can be thought” (80, St. Anselm). The argument ultimately forces his imaginary adversary to accept God's existence.

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We can explain the origin of the universe and the reason why it is like this if we believe in god. Existence of being greater than any of us and the rules for over all creation. It is not necessary for physical existence of god. We can say that god exists by thinking about god. As we know that for sided god triangle triangle is impossible, in the same manner non-existence of god is also impossible.

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