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Fight For A Place in the First Efficient Cause
Title: Fight For A Place in the First Efficient Cause
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 975 | Pages: 4.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Fight For A Place in the First Efficient Cause
Fight For A Place in the First Efficient Cause
Who and what is God? Why do some people adamantly conclude that a God exists? St. Aquinas goes from believing that there must be an efficient first cause to the conclusion that God is that cause. Why must Aquinas make such an extraordinary jump from there being a cause, to assuming that this cause must be God? In a scientific point of view, wouldn’t it …showed first 75 words of 975 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 975 total…of views, moreover an easy approach to the unsolved mysteries and theories of the universe. How ever, matter is a better, well-defined fit.
Overall, St. Aquinas only assumes God’s existence; he does not prove it. Matter “is”, just as God “is”. The explanation of God is not needed and therefore there is no place for God in the discussion of the first efficient cause. Furthermore, God does not exist as an efficient first cause.
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