Thomas Aquinas Proof

Thomas Aquinas was a Dominican Monk during the time of the 11th century. Thomas Aquinas believe that “God was revealed through reason (natural revelation) and faith (special revelation)”(69). In one of his works “Proofs for the Existence of God”(70), Aquinas works out five ways that prove of God’s existence, going on to say “it is possible to demonstrates God’s existence, although not a priori (by pure reason), yet a posterior from some work of His more surely known to us”(70). In other terms to prove that a God does exists it does not fall on reason alone but more on to look at something of His created work. Aquinas’ first proof for the existence of God is “the point of view of motion”(71), going further on to say “everything that is moved is moved by …show more content…
That is to say “there is a chain of cause: nor is it found possible for anything to be the efficient cause of itself, since it would have to exist before itself, which is impossible”(72). This proof points to the idea of cause and how that everything has a chain of cause and effect. That these cause point to a “first efficient cause, which all call God”(72). The third proof for the existence of God is “the natures of the merely possible and necessary”(72). Aquinas’ uses this argument to argue that “not all things are mere accidents, but there must be one necessarily existing being”(73).With this Aquinas seems to be stating that there is a cause and purpose for all things, and that nothing just randomly happened, like some would like to state. The fourth proof “arises from the degrees that are found in things”(73). Going on to say that throughout things you can find degrees of “goodness, truth, nobility and the like”(73). That being that when looking at something there is a hierarchy of the qualities provided by it. Because of this “there exists something that is the truest, and best, and most noble, and in consequence, the greatest