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Aquinas
Title: Aquinas
Category: History
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Aquinas
Aquinas’ Five Ways
St. Thomas Aquinas wrote five different ways or arguments as to why a God exists and gave the reasons to believe in him. Studying the works of Aristotle, Aquinas concluded from common observation that an object that is in motion, such as a rolling stone or the planets cannot be put into motion by itself. Therefore it is put in motion by some other object or force. From this, Aquinas believes that
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an intelligent designer. The intelligent designer being God.
I believe that of all the arguments the argument of creation is the strongest. It is uncomprehendable for something to create itself therefore something must have created it.
The weakest argument, in my opinion, is the argument of contingent beings. It is not as straight forward as the others and doesn’t state anything that I personally couldn’t be said in the argument of creation.
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