Thomas Aquinas believes that we can know God through reason. ... Thomas Aquinas answered the probing question with this rational; because of the lack of reasoning and being lazy about investigating the questions about God we would not attempt to dedicate ourselves. ... Thomas Aquinas believed that belief in God is necessary for a higher good. ... Aquinas believed that God was higher than reason. ... Thomas Aquinas came to believe that faith and reason were in harmony with one another and not in conflict. ...

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3rd world countries. Many theories put forward proving that God does exists are flawed for example St Thomas Aquinas~{!/~}s argument ~{!.~}uncaused cause~{!/~} which is a part of ~{!.~}The Five Ways~{!/~}. He believed that everything had to have a prime mover; everything has to be caused by somethin...

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Thomas Aquinas who believed that God's existence is self-evident, but rejected the idea that it can be deduced from claims about the concept of God. Aquinas argued, "Not everyone who hears this word 'God' understands it to signify something than which nothing greater can be thought, seeing that some have believed God to be a body." ... Thomas Aquinas offered one of the first versions of the Cosmological argument that shows how the existence of God came to be. ... Aquinas starts his argument using the philosophical principle that later becomes known as The Principle of Sufficient...

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