After critically examining this statement, it brings out the question about the bringing of the potential status of God to Him being real. It can be confusing but all the same, Aquinas enables people to understand that the reason of something makes us understand that it existed and anything that exists has association with the existence of God and thus God exists (Brentano, and Kratntz 331)
From this argument, I can deduce that there are chances that God exists, but it is hard to prove them, irrespective of whatever religion one believes in, and if someone believes He exists, then He does and if not, He is never there. In addition, existence of God is a subject that science cannot proof but will depend on the definition of "God" by people who believe in Him (Cline, "Myth: Atheists Rely Too Much on Science; God Can't Be Proven Scientifically")
According to Saint Aquinas, five methods could apply to enable any person to understand possibly the existence of God. First, it is through motion, a psychological approach where a potential effect of an individual or item becomes reality (Knight, "Whether God exists")
Thus, denying psychologically that God exists by a particular individual, I know is not obvious to him/her. Therefore, the existence of God can be self-evident to us or it can fail, but all will depend on how we understanding and view this statement (Remus, "Can the Existence of God be Proven?")
As Aquinas claimed, reason was his main principal that he used to make other people believe that God's existence is provable. This would be the initial stages but later, the person who gets involved in this, then has to have faith to believe in the Holy trinity (Trigilio, and Brighenti 4)
But now that I have seen what to do and what to avoid in order to reach the truth, the most pressing task seems to be to try to escape from the doubts into which I fell a few days ago, and see whether any certainty can be achieved regarding material objects." (Dicker, 147) In these works, Descartes used a mediaval concept that was about a things essence that was supposed to prove its existence
Plato centuries before Anselm, and Hegel centuries later, both used the argument in the former sense." (Langmead, 64) In this case Ontology tried to define what was real or not
At some point in time when nothing may have existed and nothing could possibly bring into existence the contingent beings today. From this it is derived that not all beings are contingent that is there should exist something that exists of its own necessity and is the cause for the existence of every other being (Gracyk, 2004)
If God is almighty, loving and omnipresent how could there be suffering and evil forces in this world? With all the power God has, He could eliminate each and every evil making the world a peaceful and a beautiful place to live for the people. This argument raises the question that whether God exists in reality or not? The God and the evil can, however, be reconciled; God with all his goodness has the potential to bring out the good in evil as well, but when He does not use his power to bring out the good from evil He definitely has a better plan in store for his people (Hofer, 2011)
The being to whom the worship and the reverence is due is common among the people of all times. Conscience Argument An individual's conscience has greater authority over the person and it defines the obligations (Kreeft, 1994)
Also with all the evil in the world, God has made us dependent on Him such that in any adverse circumstances we would turn to him for help and completely rely on him. Science vs Religion The major conflict between science and religion arises from the difference of perspectives on a certain problem with religious claims railing against the claims made by science (Sickler, 2009)
In the second century a.D, Justin Martyr wrote that "We are called atheists, and we confess that we are atheists, but only so far as the pagan gods and not with respect to the most true God" (Dods 29)
And thus force believers to question the existence of God by subjecting His alleged divine revelations to critical analysis" (18). THE ARGUMENT: Derived from the Greek word atheistos, meaning "one who denies the traditional religion of the Athenian establishment" (McGrath 8), an atheist staunchly denies the existence of God, whether as the Creator or Master of the Universe, the One that sees all, hears all and knows all
As maintained by Michel de Montaigne, one of the greatest and most intelligent Catholics of the 16th century, the teachings of Martin Luther implied atheism, for he had rejected the church as the only true earthly authority between man and God and argued that man should search his own conscience for divine inspiration. However, according to Montaigne, this was an unreliable method, due to the shaky judgments of ignorant and uneducated commoners which he thought would "soon degenerate into loathsome atheism" (Screech 2)
This mission was also about convincing the people about the existence of God and these pious people explained the existence of God with the same signs as those that have been mentioned above. The fact that is important for us to understand here is that if there was no God then who was it to send down the revelations on the Earth and to tell the people what they have to do as human beings on this planet and what they are forbidden to do (Adamson, 2013)
God exists -- why? Most of the people just want a simple answer and explanation to this extremely complicated and complex statement that God does exist. For those who want to understand the existence of God can do so by answering or understanding the answers of six major questions (Clark, 1946)
It should be noted that the scientists have found an extremely extensive DNA structure and sequence that is present in every cell of the human body. These DNA sequences have precise instructions pertaining to the function of the cell (Collins, 2006)
Millions of atheists have turned into people who do believe in the existence of God. There is a reason why this happened and the reason is that God exists and He looks over each and every human being and he wants the human beings to come back to Him (Flew, 2008)
Anselm had an extensive argument with an atheist, Athelred, according to which he said that saying that God does not exist is a contradictory statement in its own. He claimed that the existence of this universe and everything else that is in it is a proof in its own that God does exist (Inwagen, 1993)
The second question that compels us to believe that God exists is that who caused the formation of this universe. Scientists believe and have also convinced some people that the universe started with a great explosion which they call the Big Bang and that is how the universe came into being (Weinberg, 1998)