St Thomas Aquinas relied on what is known as the Cosmological Argument for the existence of God. He claimed that there were five valid ways to prove God exists, although thre of them are essentially restatements of the same things. Essentially his view was that some contingent beings exist; contingent beings require a noncontingent ground of being (a "necessary thing") in order to exist; therefore a noncontingent ground of being exists. This is not a great deal different to the Ontological Argument.
Aquinas' theological positions involved making unprovable assumptions from which to prove the unprovable.
Answer: Thomas' arguments were not considered proofs of the existence of God in the scientific sense (because belief in God involves faith) but in the sense that believing in God is a rational step. (See related link) There are five 'ways': 1. The argument of Unmoved Mover 2. The argument of First Cause 3. The argument of Design and Purpose (Teleological) 4. The argument of Degree 5. The argument of Contingency
Rationality & religion don't mix.
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St. Thomas Aquinas' work was the culmination of work beginning with Plato. Using Aristotelean logic, he created the five "proofs of God" and expounded on those proofs to explain the whole of Christian Theology, in seven volumes called the Summa Theologia, often abbreviated to the Summa.
God can't be seen, measured, weighed, smelled, felt or in any way sampled. All proofs of God's existence are either hearsay, or inferred proofs as in "this world has to have been made by someone"
Yes, no-one has found any proof that god exists. Not one scrap of evidence.
It really dosen't matter because everyone should know God exists ever if you are not christian but im a Pegan.
Absolutely! He developed some resounding proofs of God's existence that were used often in Western Philosophy
The five ways of reason are the arguments of motion, causes, possibility, degress of perfection, and governance. These arguments were made by St. Thomas Aquanis which proposed that the existence of God can be demonstrated through reason.
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here be me thomas aquinas own argument to say that god is real i can prove bye the holy spirit
The questions not wheres the proof? It is do you believe?Answer:The proofs used by believers to demonstrate the existence of god are fallacious arguments to non-believers. To be proof in the scientific sense they would have to be repeatable, observable and conducted with a program of triple blind examiners to remove potential biasing of the results. No such tests have been undertaken with verifiable results. The problem is that if you can make a "god" jump through hoops to provide the proof, he isn't much of an omnipotent deity.
Hope this helps: http://www.saintaquinas.com/philosophy.html You will have to scroll down to find St Thomas.