THE LAST THREE WAYS TO PROVES GOD'S EXISTENCE BY THOMAS AQUINAS

THE LAST THREE WAYS TO PROVES GOD'S EXISTENCE BY THOMAS AQUINAS

FROM POSSIBILITY AND NECESSITY ITS ARGUEMENT

In nature, we find things that are possible to be and not to be, that come from being and go out of being as contingent beings. Imagine every being is a contingent being, for each contingent being, there come a time it is not in existence, which makes it impossible for these to always be in existence. There could have been a time when nothing existed. At that time there would have been nothing to bring the currently existing contingent beings into existence. So therefore, nothing would be in existence now. We have reached a common sense result from assuming that every being is a contingent being. It implies that not every being is a contingent being, some being exists of its own necessity, and does not receive its existence from another being but rather causes them. This people term it as Supreme Being, God.

ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN

            Natural bodies work towards some goal, and that is not done by chance. Most natural things are knowledgeable. As an arrow reaches its target because it is directed by an archer, what lacks intelligences achieves goals by being directed by something intelligent. Therefore, some intelligent being exists by whom all natural things are directed to their end, and that being we call God.

FROM GRADATION OF BEING ITS ARGUEMENT

            In things the is a gradation to be found, some appears to be better or worse than others. Predications of design  require reference to the uttermost case. For example, a thing is said to be hotter according as it more nearly resembles that which is hottest. The maximum in any genius is the cause of all in that genius. Therefore, there must also be something which is to all beings the cause of their being, goodness, and every other perfection, and this we call God.