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Thomas Aquinas's Five Proofs For The Existence Of God

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St. Thomas Aquinas has five proofs for the existence of God. The first proof is the argument of motion. This proof explains that our senses prove that things are in motion, and that an actual movement can create a potential movement into an actual movement. Everything that is in motion is first moved by something else which would be the first mover. The first mover is understood to be God. The second proof is the argument from efficient cause. This proof explains that nothing is the efficient cause of itself and if the cause does not exist neither does the result. If the first thing in series does not exist nothing in the series exists, and therefore nothing would exist. Because we know that is false the first original cause must be God. The
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