Arguments for God's existence

Question 1

Aquinas’ Five Ways

Answer 1

Motion, First Cause, Contingency, Degree, Teleology

Question 2

Motion

Answer 2

All things in motion need a mover, but there must be something unmoved that begins other things in motion. God is the Unmoved mover

Question 3

First cause

Answer 3

all effects must have causes, but there cannot be an infinite series of causes into the past; thus God is the first or Uncaused Cause - cosmology

Question 4

Contingency

Answer 4

all things existence in dependence on something see that is contingent; therefore, there must be something that is absolutely independent that is necessary. This necessary being is God

Question 5

Degree

Answer 5

there appears to be an increasing degree of perfection among us; there fore, there must be a being who is the height of perfection. This being is God

Question 6

Teleology

Answer 6

the observable design in the world suggests that there must be an intelligent designer, God

Question 7

Beauty

Answer 7

aesthetics, much like degree, it demands levels of increasing preference toward a perfection of not only ontology, but pleasure - this must be born from a necessity to conform

Question 8

Morality

Answer 8

with all mankind having an innate sense of right or wrong, there must be a set of justice scales. Therefore, God holds the scales

Question 9

Love

Answer 9

affection requires being affected. Love comes from being loved. God is love

Question 10

Ontology

Answer 10

if it is logically possible for God (a necessary being) to exist, then God exists. Concepts must be tied to reality

Question 11

Atheism

Answer 11

all men known that there is something greater than them, what some call the Numinous, even if unnamed. This is God. The strong denial of what all men know, is an ethical denial of what ll men know.

Question 12

Religion

Answer 12

in all cultures in all times, religion has been a prominent part of all people groups, even if but prominent denail of religion in the modern era

Question 13

Judaism

Answer 13

ONe of the major world religions that has at its absolute core a monatheistic approach to life. yahweh IS. Their place in history is prominent.

Question 14

Christianity

Answer 14

The followers of Jesus, the Christ, have as their core a monotheism within a Triune Godhead - of which the founding “prophet” is God Himself. The most impacting worldview for the entire history of the Western Civilization, Christianity builds all ideals on the predicate of the existence of God.

Question 15

The Holy Scriptures

Answer 15

The Christian Book of Scriptures has more literary and cultural veracity than any other religious book and has as its main Character, God.

Question 16

The Incarnation

Answer 16

An event that has defined the Western world and has been taken across the globe, the coming of God to men, showed us the existence of God, tangibly

Question 17

Jesus the Christ

Answer 17

The man Jesus claimed not only to affirm the existence of God but promoted Himself to be God with irreconcilable claims to have the authority to say such. his claims were affirmed by His deeds, signs, and ultimately, His resurrection from the dead.

Question 18

The Resurrection

Answer 18

The most unique event of all human history was the event of the Incarnation, but this was fulfilled when the One who claimed deity proved it by coming back from the dead. He accomplished this to bring life to humanity because that is God’s will.

Question 19

Singularity

Answer 19

an infinite Being cannot be understood by finite beings unless He reveals Himself and must do so in such a way as to be understood and therefore would only do so in a singular, non-confusing way.