Thomas Aquinas Argument Essay

There are many arguments presented to the existence of God. The following are simply three examples that speak to the reality of an all-powerful being. The three arguments that are being covered are as follows: Thomas Aquinas’ Five Ways, Anselm’s ontological argument, and the teleological argument. Aquinas’ argument covers a variety of arguments including the cosmological arguments, perfect argument, and the end argument. Anselm’s argument covers ontology which includes the conception of God. The final argument is teleological which speaks to the existence of a maker. I will give an accurate review of the three arguments ten provide counterexamples for each argument to the best of my abilities.
Thomas Aquinas discusses the five argument, …show more content…
Each of the previously mentioned arguments stems from a natural phenomenon and results in the phenomena occurring because of a divine source, which Aquinas relates to God. Aquinas first testimony to God lies in motion, which was inspired by Aristotle. Aristotle suggests that everything in the universe was provoked to move by something or someone and could not have been in movement if not for some primary movement. Aquinas assumed this “primary mover” as the God of Christianity, thus motion. Aquinas’ second argument is that of causation, stems from the idea that an entity or event is responsible for any specific thing. It states that every cause that occurs comes from a singular first cause because there cannot be an infinite chain of efficient causes. The third of the Aquinas arguments are based upon a contingency, which distinguishes between possible and necessary. This states that all thing in existence is possible to exist or not exist. If all things are able to exist they had to have come from something non-existent, which is not achievable by human means. Therefore, there must be a necessary being who was here before all possible beings that do not exist but rather came into being from