Does God Exist?

Since time immortal, mankind has wondered about God. Does God exist? How does one prove that God exists? Many Christians' common reply is simply to have faith. This isn't enough for some people.

Thomas Aquinas was a prominent philosopher during the 1200s. He tackled the subject of proving the existence of God. Aquinas came up with five proofs for the existence of God. They are motion, contingency, perfection, order, and cause :

Motion is a reality to humans. For all motion, there has to be a prior force to set it in motion. Go back motion by motion. There has to be a beginning that has has no prior force. This beginning is God.

Compare this to the Bible verse about believing in God because of seeing the wind blowing in the trees. This is also very similar to Newton's Laws of Motion.

Aquinas argued that everything is always in a state of change. Also, all things are contingent upon some other thing in order to exist. There must be an original something that doesn't rely upon something else in order to exist. Here you will find God.

Nature itself is an argument for the existence of God, according to Thomas Aquinas. He notes the perfection in nature. Aquinas instructs us to look at nature's perfections, in greater and lesser degrees. He then states that there must be something that is completely perfect, from which all other things descended in order. Aquinas's answer for this is God.

In a similar vein, Aquinas speaks about the inherent order of the universe. There is such order and organization to the entire universe. How could this come about by pure chance? Thomas Aquinas asserts that this is proof of an intelligent being creating the orderly universe.

Cause is another proof of the existence of God, according to Aquinas. His argument is that new things are coming to fruition always. Each of these events must have a cause. Go back through the causes one at a time until there is only one original cause left. What is the original? God is the answer.