Thomas Aquinas was a philosopher who talked about faith and reason. He believed it was good to be logical and rational in our world - which was called the order of natural knowlege and then their was the supernatural order - things that could not be explained and exceded our knowledge in which we have to use faith (divine truth under god)
Aquinas states that faith is a neccessary part of life because their are things that will always be left with no logical answer - with this he came up with five proofs:
the mover argument - somthing is only set in motion because of somthing else moving - their had to be a first "mover" for anything else to move
the second is the creator- created theory - "did the chicken or the egg come first" aquinas believed that god created one of them first and this created the process
the third - contigency - the idea that what we observe isn't neccesary but if somthing wasn't neccesary why would it excist? - so god is why its all necessary
4- in order to see somthing as good or bad we must have somthing better to compare it to and that would be god
5 - the idea of us working towards a goal and somthing has to direct the entire thing and that would be god
The thoughts of Aquinas are obviously argued with non believers and other philosophers but I have to say that I completely agree with all of aquinas's arguments - they make complete sense - Aquinas was crowned a saint because of his ability to create religon as a science and as logical thinking.
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