Thomas Aquinas took a religious approach to philosophy and the existence of god. Thomas Aquinas devised five arguments for the existence of god. His arguments included: Motion, Cause, Necessity, Degree, and Design. The second way, cause, is an Aristotelian concept. Cause will be the focus of this paper. Cause is based on the cosmological argument. Cosmological argument originates from kosmos, meaning, world or universe. .
Cosmological argument states that it is impossible for anything to be the complete and sufficient source in its own existence. Cause makes all the sense in the world. How could I exist before I existed? I"m here because my mother and father were here before me. My parents are here because my grandparents made that possible. However, there is one set of parents that had no parents. In the Bible, this is Adam and Eve. According to the Bible not even they were part of their own existence. God therefore is the creator who was uncreated. .
There is a problem with the cause argument. There are some things in the world that have no cause. These things that I"m referring to are matter and energy. God created human beings. Who created energy? If energy is created by energy, and matter created by matter: Who is god? Is god living? Is god energy? How does matter fit into this equation?.
I was always taught that everything happens for a reason. I was also taught that the god could do all things. Well if this is true then why do the innocent suffer? What caused AIDS, starvation, and war? AIDS causes people to die, starvation causes people to die, and war causes people to die. Is it safe to say that god's only cause to create a life is to take it away? If this is true than life has no meaning. God works in mysterious ways. He needs no cause for his ways or actions.
