The Key Ideas of the Cosmological Argument for the Creation of God

The Key Ideas of the Cosmological Argument for the Creation of God

There are three key ideas in the cosmological argument each view is

written by a different philosopher and has a different view of the

reasons for existence.

Lets have a look at the different views.

Thomas Aquinas was one of the greatest theologians the world had ever

seen. He believed that Aristotle’s philosophy was a better foundation

of Christianity than Plato’s theories were. Aquinas believed that to

prove gods existence people only had to look at the world around them,

the world couldn’t exist, as it is if there wasn’t an ultimate force

behind it all; this force is called god. Aquinas had three main ways

of proving divine existence.

The fist way is the argument from the fact of change to a prime mover;

everything in the world is in motion and so had to have been moved by

something, nothing can move by itself without something else exerting

a force on it. There must have been something which exerted the force

in the first moving thing and which wasn’t moved by anything else.

This first mover was god.

The second way is the argument from causation to a first cause;

everything has a cause, I am here because Mrs Matchett told me to do

an essay, she told me to do the essay because that is what the course

requires, the course is decided by the exam board and so on, This

would in the end get right back to something which didn’t have a

cause, this series of causes must have a starting point, a first

cause. This first cause was god.

The third way is the argument from contingent beings to a necessary

being. Contingent beings could easy exist in a different way if things

had happened differently. E.g. I am sitting at an Advent computer but

if my parents had taken a different career path and become graphic

designers I would probably be sitting at an apple Mac computer.

Everything is contingent because if something in history had changed