Does God exist? Can we even answer this question reasonably?
St. Thomas Aquinas, a great theologian and philosopher, expressed the rational basis for the existence of God with five proofs:
👉 The First Mover
🧨 Causation
♾ Contingency
👌Degree
🥅 Final End
1) 👉 The First Mover
Everything can move.
Everything that moves was moved by something else.
Something must have been the first mover.
God was the first mover.
2) 🧨 Causation
Nothing causes itself to exist.
Without our parents, we don’t exist.
Without their parents, they don’t exists.
What existed first?
The first cause: God.
3) ♾ Contingency
Something either exists or not.
There was a time when something that exists didn’t exist yet.
What existed before all things existed?
All that exists is contingent upon that which always existed: God.
4) 👌Degree
We can compare things by degrees of perfection.
Some things are more perfect than others.
A circle, for example, can be drawn more perfectly round than another circle.
What would be the most perfect of all?
God is absolute perfection.
5) 🥅 Final End
Everything has a goal.
Why?
What tells a plant to grow or an animal to eat?
What tells the planet to spin?
There must be some intelligence behind all these ends.
God gives the goals.
God directs the final end.
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