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Does God Exist
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What is God? Who is God? Why do some people conclude that a God
exists? Saint Thomas Aquinas goes from the fact that there must be a first
efficient cause to the conclusion that God is that cause. Why must Aquinas
make the extraordinary jump from there being a cause, to assuming that .... Middle of Paper .... some being prior to it, was it's cause. Therefore,
if no first cause exists, neither will any other being exist. Therefore, there is a
first efficient cause--God. This argument assumes that a first cause is needed
to explain the existence of anything. Aquinas also assumes this first cause to
be God. How can anyone rationally conclude that there is a God from the
simple statement that a first cause is necessary? Therefore, a first cause does
not prove God, it only assumes that there is a God, at best. Could one not
put matter in the place ....
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