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One of the intellectual giants in the Church, St. Thomas Aquinas, articulated five ways we can know of God’s existence through reason and what we observe in the natural world. For more than 700 years, these five ways have served as a starting point for those struggling to believe in God and looking for a way to seek Him.
- Creation
- Redemption
- Judgment
All things were created and brought into existence by the will of God (Rev. 4:11; Eph. 3:9; Gen. 1:1). As the maker is master of what he has made, so God is sovereign over the whole of his creation. Created reality is the expression of the divine will, and in its cosmic perfection it reflects the perfect order of the divine mind. As, moreover, noth...
But, again, all is not well in our world. Evil is present as well as good, darkness as well as light. On all sides human society is marred by hatred, greed, brutality, and irrational behavior of every kind. Even the individual self is torn asunder by passions and frustrations. The disintegrating force of sin is such that it threatens the very struc...
But, it may again be objected, if God has sovereignly and decisively intervened by the coming of Christ into the world, why is the world still in such a sorry state, nearly two thousand years after his coming? Where are the peace and justice that he came to establish? The answer to such questions is that God, who has already intervened redemptively...
One argument to prove God’s existence is known as the ‘ontological argument’ — an argument which, by reason alone – proves that, the very idea of God as a perfect being means that God must exist, that his non-existence would be contradictory. These kinds of a priori arguments rely on logical deduction, rather than something
Positions on the existence of God can be divided along numerous axes, producing a variety of orthogonal classifications. Theism and atheism are positions of belief or lack of it, while gnosticism and agnosticism are positions of knowledge or the lack of it. Ignosticism concerns belief about God's conceptual coherence.
Aug 30, 2024 · According to Anselm, the concept of God as the most perfect being—a being greater than which none can be conceived—entails that God exists, because a being who was otherwise all perfect and who failed to exist would be less great than a being who was all perfect and who did exist.
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Aug 1, 2001 · Traditional theism holds that God is the creator of heaven and earth, and that all that occurs in the universe takes place under Divine Providence — that is, under God’s sovereign guidance and control. According to believers, God governs creation as a loving father, working all things for good.
Mar 20, 2006 · According to the classical theism of Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas and their adherents, God is radically unlike creatures in that he is devoid of any complexity or composition, whether physical or metaphysical.
