St. Thomas Aquinas Cosmological Argument

According to St. Thomas Aquinas the cosmological argument and teleological argument as stated in the “Kalam” basically states “that everything that begins to exist has a cause of existence, the universe began to exist, therefore, the universe has a cause of its existence.” This basically means that that everything happens for a reason. In my opinion I completely agree with this logic. With the way that the world is today the must be some type of Ultimate Reality (God) that has plans for us as human beings. With the wars and sufferings that countries, minorities, and diverse cultures have had to endure in just this past year alone, I have to believe that there is something greater behind it. According to Aquinas’ Cosmological argument, regarding his first way/mover stating that “objects are in motion and it something is in motion, then it must be caused to be in motion by something outside of itself; there cannot be an infinite chain of moves/movers; so, there has to be a first, unmoved mover, therefore, this first unmoved mover is God.” The meaning derived from St. Thomas Aquinas’ first way is basically stating that nothing can happen without some type of outside force or influence, similar to the cause and effect notion. …show more content…
I believe that everything that we do in our lives has a chain reaction to someone else’s life whether we know them or they are complete strangers. Everything that we as humans do in our life, whether it is driving on a busy road, swerving to avoid hitting a squirrel that ran into the road, you save the squirrel but resulted in you crashing into another car and creating an