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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