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Aquinas' First Proof of the Existence of GOd

Date Submitted: 05/17/2002 02:31:48
Category: / Literature / English
Length: 2 pages (447 words)
I have chosen to write St. Thomas Aquinas’ proof citing motion as proof of the existence of God. Although I must admit to being a little confused the wording, I see it as being in terms of ability too, act of, and the first to act. The ability too, is the potential of the object to act. This potential cannot be converted to the act unless acted upon by another object already in the state …
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…as the state of action, but the one understood to be God is only in the state of action. I think that God is the beginning, the one that is outside of creation because, for lack of a better term, he created creation. As the old saying goes, God “got the ball rolling”. St. Thomas Aquinas delivers irrefutable proof that God does exist. That there must be one that was not created, that just is.
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