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Proof For God's Existence

1. The UTRUM:

"Whether or not it is the case that there is proof for God's existence."

2. The VIDETUR:

"It seems that the existence of God can be proven in five ways by the Cosmological Argument."
Saint Thomas Aquinas, put forth his own theory on the existence of God. In his text "Whether God Exists", he stated that through his five arguments he could prove God's existence. His five arguments are from motion, from first efficient cause, from possibility and necessity, from gradation, and from design. Aquinas begins his text with two objections as to why God does not exist. The first states that God does not exist because the word "God" has the meaning of infinite goodness. Therefore, if God actually existed there would be no evil in this world. Because there is evil, God cannot exist. The second objection states that all natural things can be attributed to reasons other than God's existence. The objection states that natural things are the result of human reason or......


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