Included in the Summa Theologica is St. Thomas’s Five Ways. These are five arguments that prove the existence of God. The first way is through the Argument From Motion. Studying from the works of Aristotle, St. Thomas concluded from common observation that an object that is in motion is put in motion by some other object or force. From this observation, St. Thomas believed that there must be an Unmoved Mover who first puts things in motion and everyone understands this to be God. The second way of proving God’s existence is through the Causation of Existence. St. Thomas concluded that common sense observation tells us that no object can create itself. In other words, another previous object had to create it. From that, St. Thomas believed that there must have been an Uncaused First Cause. Therefore, there is someone who began the chain of existence for all things, to which everyone gives the name of God.

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