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    Proof of God's Existence

    Year Two Week Three T


    What are the Proofs?
    In his work the Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas outlines
    five reasons for why God truly exists. What makes these proofs Prayer for the Week
    different is that they don’t try to use religious beliefs to make a
    Lord, we know that there
    point. Instead, it starts with common ideas everyone believes,
    and uses logic to arrive at the conclusion that God exists. is a reality that we live in.
    Help us in seeing Your
    existence as the cause for
    1. Proof from Motion all things. In Your name
    We observe motion all around us. Whatever is in motion would we pray, Amen.
    have had to have been at rest at some point, and at some
    point, something made it move. Then whatever made that
    move, something would have to place it in motion. At the end
    of the line, there must be something that set everything else in
    motion, which did not itself need to have been initially moved.
    Therefore, this thing must have existed from all time, never
    having been at rest. We would call this thing the First Mover.
    The only being who could accomplish this would have to be an
    omnipotent being, also known as God.

    Opening Question
    2. Proof from Necessary vs. Possible Being
    What reasons have you
    “Possible Beings” are things whose existence is not necessary
    heard for why God does
    for creation to continue. Examples of this would include cars,
    not exist?
    buildings, trees, animals, planets, chemicals, and even
    ourselves. There was a time before any such “unnecessary”
    Which reasons make the
    things were created. During that time, nothingness would
    most sense?
    have been all that existed. However, nothing is not able to
    create something. Since we are able to see that all such
    “possible beings” exist, there has to have been a necessary who
    created them and set them in motion. This Necessary Being
    we call God.

    DISCOVER THE TRUTH


    Proof of God's Existence
    Year Two Week Three T
    3. Proof from Efficient Cause
    This concept is similar to the Proof from Motion, but is based
    on Creation. Everything in the world has a maker, and that Contradictions and
    maker has its maker, and so on. For example, the table was Misinterpretations
    made by the carpenter, the carpenter by his or her parents,
    and so on and so on. But there cannot be an infinite line of God can't exist because
    predecessors, as there has to be a place in which creation bad things happen.
    started, otherwise nothing would exist now. Since we
    experience creation around us, then there has to be a First Evolution disproves the
    Maker that did not need to be made itself. The only being who need for a God.
    could do that would have to be an eternal being, who we can
    call God.

    4. Proof from Design


    As we look at the world around us, and ourselves, we see
    incredible amounts of design that could not have come from
    accident, such as the bird's wing, the human ear, the living
    and giving nature of creation, etc. While it could be possible for Setting the Mindset
    all of these things to have occurred from accident, the ability
    for them to all happen at the same time is unmeasurably It is easy to believe in
    small. It would be far more likely that there was a Designer things that we can see,
    who fashioned all things with intention and care. That touch, or feel. However, it
    Designer we call God.
    does make logical sense
    not only that God could
    exist, but that he must
    5. Proof from Degrees of Perfection
    exist.
    We all have an understanding of a scale of good and evil;
    calling things and people more or less honest, good, loving,
    etc. But we would have no such standards unless there was a
    Perfect Being we could base all these things from. That Perfect
    Being we call God.

    DISCOVER THE TRUTH


    Proof of God's Existence
    Year Two Week Three T
    What to ask:
    Which proof resonated with you? Why?
    What arguments can you think of that get in the way of
    these proofs?
    How would you respond to the following question?
    God didn’t cause anything, it was the big bang.
    There is no such thing as good and evil, it’s all
    subjective.
    Everything existing from billions of years slowly
    developing over time makes more sense then a God
    doing it all.

    DISCOVER THE TRUTH

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