In Thomas Aquinas, 5 ways to prove the existence of God, I will look his second way “Efficient Cause.” In this proof, Aquinas states that everything is caused or created by other things. He states that every effect has a cause and that cause is an effect of another cause, and so on and so forth.
An example to help explain his argument is a coffee table. The creator of a coffee table is the builder or the carpenter. (The cause is the carpenter and the effect was the coffee table). The parents had created the carpenter (The cause is the parents and the effect is the carpenter). The carpenters’ grandparents created the carpenters’ parents (The cause is the grandparents and the effect is the parents). And this goes on and on; because this keeps
An example to help explain his argument is a coffee table. The creator of a coffee table is the builder or the carpenter. (The cause is the carpenter and the effect was the coffee table). The parents had created the carpenter (The cause is the parents and the effect is the carpenter). The carpenters’ grandparents created the carpenters’ parents (The cause is the grandparents and the effect is the parents). And this goes on and on; because this keeps