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    First Way: Argument From Motion

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    The document discusses Aquinas' Five Ways of proving God's existence. It summarizes each way and provides the author's own understanding of each. The Five Ways are: 1) argument from motion, 2) cause and effect, 3) contingent and necessary beings, 4) gradation of perfection, and 5) order/governance of the world. For each way, the author reflects on their own experiences and conclusions that point to the existence of God.

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    Honor, Aj Kerk N.

    Ma’am Hembrador

    BSBA – 4 Dec 29, 2018

    First Way: Argument from Motion

    A) THESIS STATEMENT: https://physics.info/motion/

    Motion is the action of changing location or position. The study of motion without regard
    to the forces or energies that may be involved is called kinematics. It is the simplest
    branch of mechanics. The branch of mechanics that deals with both motion and forces
    together is called dynamics and the study of forces in the absence of changes in motion
    or energy is called statics. Motion may be divided into three basic types
    translational,rotational, and oscillatory. The sections on mechanics in this book are
    basically arranged in that order.
     Translational motion

     Oscillatory motion

     Rotational motion

     Random motion

    B.) OWN UNDERSTANDING:

    Everything is in motion from the fact that all around the earth are moving, even the earth
    we are standing on is in motion. But what I understood is that there must be something
    that causes it to move in its way, what I understand about Aquinas is that everything we
    do is in GOD’S work. Because it’s meaningless to move around without purpose of
    doing it.

    SECOND WAY: CAUSE AND EFFECT


    A) THESIS STATEMENT: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-causality/

    In Physics II 3 and Metaphysics V 2, Aristotle offers his general account of the four
    causes. This account is general in the sense that it applies to everything that requires
    an explanation, including artistic production and human action. Here Aristotle
    recognizes four types of things that can be given in answer to a why-question:

     The material cause

     The formal cause

     The efficient cause

     The final cause

    B) OWN UNDERSTANDING:

    Everything requires an explanation and that gave me the question why are we here? It
    must be a reason that I am here, what is the cause of me being alive? What is the effect
    of me continuing to be alive? There must be something to account for and that is GOD.

    THIRD WAY: CONTINGENT AND NECESSARY BEING

    A.) THESIS STATEMENT: https://www.britannica.com/topic/the-Five-Ways

    Aquinas’s third demonstration of God’s existence is the argument from contingency,


    which he advances by distinguishing between possible and necessary beings. Possible
    beings are those that are capable of existing and not existing. Many natural beings, for
    example, are possible because they are subject to generation and corruption.

    B.) OWN UNDERSTANDING:


    All around us has an end and so there must be a being that does not have end, and that
    is God.

    FOURTH WAY: GRADATION OF PERFECTION

    A.) THESIS STATEMENT: http://www.saintaquinas.com/article6.html

    God is absolutely perfect in the order of all things. God is perfectly just, merciful,
    powerful, wise, and loving. He does not lack any perfection found in the created order
    because he is the first efficient cause and creates all perfection. God’s perfection is
    grounded in the fact that he is synonymous with existence itself and thus encompasses
    all being. (ST. Aquinas)

    B.) OWN UNDERSTANDING:

    From my experience all of the things I have seen are not perfect, we people always
    have negative in ourselves. Even in nature nothing seems perfect, some trees grow big
    but does not bare many fruits, some are small but bare many fruits.

    FIFTH WAY: ORDER/ GOVERNANCE OF THE WORLD

    A.) THESIS STATEMENT: https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/does-


    god-control-all-things-all-the-time

    First, God works all things according to his will. Here’s Ephesians 1:11: “In him we have
    obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who
    works all things according to the counsel of his will.” Let me say it again. He works all
    things according to the counsel of his will. I think that means he always controls
    everything. There’s my answer.

    B.) OWN UNDERSTANDING:


    God abides in us, everything has its purpose according to GOD’S work and by simply
    believing this then our life is in control of him.

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