Cosmological Argument
The Arguments for the Existence of God
Out of the four arguments for the existence of a God, the Cosmological argument is the most persuasive. For thousands of years, humans have wondered what their purpose on Earth is and how we came to exist. Because of this wondering, many humans have concluded that there is an all-powerful creator who created the universe and everything in it. But, since we cannot see this creator and have no evidence as proof of his existence, there are many people who doubt the existence of an all-powerful creator. There are four main arguments for the existence of God. They are the Teleological argument, the Cosmological arguments, the Ontological arguments, and the Moral arguments. None of them provide objective proof …show more content…
This cause, proponents of Cosmological argument claim, is God. This argument rests on the fact that all beings or events have some cause. The only exception to this rule is God, who must have existed for an infinite amount of time or been created from nothing. The main criticism of this argument is that it requires that every being has a cause, but it follows that God cannot have a cause. It is very hard to imagine a being that has no cause because it is in human nature to believe there is a cause for everything …show more content…
St. Thomas Aquinas presents one of the earliest teleological arguments in his Summa Theologica. Aquinas argues that anything with knowledge moves toward and end or cause. But, natural bodies, or planets, do not have knowledge and they still move toward an end. By an end, Aquinas means that the planets take the same path of orbit around the sun. Thus, Aquinas argues, if an unintelligent body is moving toward an end, it must be directed by an intelligent being. This intelligent being must be God (Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Article 3, Question
Out of the four arguments for the existence of a God, the Cosmological argument is the most persuasive. For thousands of years, humans have wondered what their purpose on Earth is and how we came to exist. Because of this wondering, many humans have concluded that there is an all-powerful creator who created the universe and everything in it. But, since we cannot see this creator and have no evidence as proof of his existence, there are many people who doubt the existence of an all-powerful creator. There are four main arguments for the existence of God. They are the Teleological argument, the Cosmological arguments, the Ontological arguments, and the Moral arguments. None of them provide objective proof …show more content…
This cause, proponents of Cosmological argument claim, is God. This argument rests on the fact that all beings or events have some cause. The only exception to this rule is God, who must have existed for an infinite amount of time or been created from nothing. The main criticism of this argument is that it requires that every being has a cause, but it follows that God cannot have a cause. It is very hard to imagine a being that has no cause because it is in human nature to believe there is a cause for everything …show more content…
St. Thomas Aquinas presents one of the earliest teleological arguments in his Summa Theologica. Aquinas argues that anything with knowledge moves toward and end or cause. But, natural bodies, or planets, do not have knowledge and they still move toward an end. By an end, Aquinas means that the planets take the same path of orbit around the sun. Thus, Aquinas argues, if an unintelligent body is moving toward an end, it must be directed by an intelligent being. This intelligent being must be God (Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Article 3, Question