St. Thomas Aquinas's Theory Of Existence Of God

THEORY OF EXISTENCE OF GOD St. Thomas Aquinas, a medieval philosopher, has once proved that there is a God by using his Cosmological and Teleological arguments. But still, there are still some questionable things with his belief that there is an existing God. According to the bible, at the moment God created us, we are human beings who are free of sin. Evil simply started when his first human creations, Adam and Eve, abused the freedom he gave them and changed everything. This sin is called the original sin and is said to be passed on to us as if it was hereditary. But why did God make us, humans, if he knows that we have a possibility to commit sins and offend his commandments? Just think of God like our parents. Our parents know that if they were to make a child, it would be difficult to raise them and after some time when they grow up, there’s a chance that they …show more content…
We might have asked ourselves, why doesn’t he let us do what we want? Can’t we really have total freedom? It might be possible that he could’ve given us total freedom. But because we humans tend to abuse it too much, it wouldn’t be great if that happened. Everyone would be free to do things even if those things are morally wrong. There would be no peace and order everywhere and that’d be terrible. Now, can we still consider ourselves as his creations possessing free will, even we don’t have total freedom with our actions? Yes, we still have free will. Free will is the ability to choose between different possible courses of action. We are restricted in doing the bad things, yet he never restricted us to do all the good things we can do. Who among us would want to do any immoral actions; no one, right? So we should stop thinking like we are being caged like a bird once we apply God’s commandments. If ever we feel that way, then probably we are intending to do something which disobeys those rules so we should stop ourselves