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Does God Exist? - College Paper

Does God Exist?

St. Thomas Aquinas has written several important works. Some of them
are: The Disputed Questions on the Power of God, Exposition of Dionysius on the
Divine Names and Disputed Questions on Spiritual Creatures. Most of Aquinas's
works have been written to try to prove the existence of God. Aquinas has been
a firm believer that everything had to have a creator and the only possible
solution would be something called God. It is with this idea that Aquinas's
Third Way was written.

In his De aeternitate mundi contra murmurantes, Aquinas insists that
human reason cannot prove the impossibility of an eternally created universe.
Once again Aquinas has written with the certainty that God has ...

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way, Aquinas tries to show that God exists
if it is true that we exist.

In the article Aquinas says that it is possible for things to exist and
for them not to exist. He means that living things will one day become non-
living things. Aquinas believes that all things can not be mortal because if it
were true, then at some point nothing would exist. What he means is if all
things were living things, meaning that they had to be mortal, then at some time
these things must also become non-existing.

Aquinas says that if everything were mortal, then nothing could be
existing at present, because what is nonexistent begins to be only through
something which already exists. This can be translated to mean that if all
mortal things have to stop existing then there can't be anything which exists
today. Aquinas believes that it takes a living presence to help create other
live things in order for them to live also. This means that there must have
been something which existed through ...

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Added: 4/12/2006 11:57:12 AM
Category: Religion
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 1000
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