Saint Thomas Aquinas 'Whether God Exists'

The existence of God has been a paramount question people have thoroughly sought the answer to for centuries. In Saint Thomas Aquinas’s writing “Whether God Exists”, Aquinas theorizes that even with the presence of human reasoning and evil on earth, logical verifications to Gods’ existence is evident. Saint Aquinas begins to demonstrate his thesis by describing two main objectives to Gods being. The first objective to God points out the contradictory notion of having a God that represents infinite goodness, while still having a world full of evil. In the second objective, Saint Aquinas describes the argument that a few set principles can explain everything on earth. For instance, all things that are natural occurrences come down to the single principle, nature. Another principle, human will, is used to explain all

With these objectives in mind, Saint Thomas Aquinas then goes on to reveal his “five way” the indicates Gods being.

Saint Aquinas begins by examining the rule of motion. He explains has everything has to have a starting force to move from a potential to actuality. In other words, things in the world couldn’t have begun, or be put in motion, unless there was an initial mover. This initial mover is God. His next point analyzes efficient causation. With Efficient Causation it is necessary to have a cause in order to have an effect. All efficient cause must start with the cause of the intermediate cause, then the intermediate cause transitions to the ultimate cause. Without the first cause, then no intermediate or ultimate cause can be produced. God is believed to that first efficient cause. His third point interprets the idea of possibility and necessity. There are many examples in nature in which things have existed and now no longer do. In order for natural things to exist, something else must have existed beforehand. Otherwise, since all things can cease to exist, then at one point