Can You Believe

Can You Believe?

Saint Thomas Aquinas was an interesting man. His reasons for God's existence are just as interesting. Saint Thomas believes, "The first and more manifest way is the argument from motion. It is certain, and evident to our senses, that in the world some things are in motion. Now whatever is in motion is put in motion by another, for nothing can be in motion except it is in potentiality to that towards which it is in motion." Well to me, this statement is confusing and really took time to sink in. The assumption from reading his ways in my opinion is that because everything needs a beginning, that beginning must be God. Since there was a beginning to everything, that beginning must be the most high and ultimate thing, or God. In some retrospect, I do think that this simple and in some ways logical statement makes sense. In today's time, where it seems as though everything needs a reason, Saint Thomas's theory would not be in held in such high regard. In fact, I think that Nietzsche's argument who fair better in a debate on whether or not God exist because Nietzsche‘s relies more on a "rational" basis, believing that you can't prove there is a God with feelings. I personally however, using my own logic and reasoning can understand Aquinas's five ways and think that there is some kind of logic involved in his reasons.