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The Existence of God: Theories of Thomas Aquinas, St. Anselm, and William Paley


The three readings that form the basis of this essay all deal with the existence
of a God, something that which nothing greater can be conceived and cannot be
conceived not to exist. The three readings include: Thomas Aquinas, St. Anselm,
and William Paley.

First let us start with Thomas Aquinas, a Dominican Monk (1225-1274) who
is considered by many to be the greatest theologian in Western religion.
Aquanis writes of two opposite theories with reasons for the non-
existence of God and then for the existence of God. He starts off with his
views for the non-existence of God relating this through two objections. In the
first of the two he defines God as infinite goodness and goes on the say that
if God truly existed, there would be no evil. Since evil does exist in the
world, there must therefore be no God.
I agree with this reasoning, for how could God, a being of infinite
goodness create and......

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