St. Thomas Aquinas and His Five Ways - Do They Show That God REALLY Exists?!?!

St. Thomas Aquinas was a theologian, a philosopher, and a Dominican priest that gave rational arguments to prove that God truly existed. These five arguments today are called Aquinas' Five Ways. Aquinas believed that reason should be embraced by Christianity and developed rational arguments to prove God's existence through this reason. Aquinas believed that God intended us to use reason, that he made us that way, and when we use this reason we can see the world as being an emanation of God. In order to get closer to God, we must first understand him better, and the only way to do that was to use our logic and get to know God better. Aquinas brings reason back into the Middle Ages and teaches how to prove Christian faith through it.

In my own opinion, Aquinas' Fourth Way is the most reasonable to me, because it does not make an exception to God. In the other Ways presented by Aquinas, it says that all things had to be created by something else, EXCEPT God. The Fourth Way does not give God an exception. The Fourth Way basically states that there are objects in the world with greater quality, beauty, then others do. To say that something is more beautiful than another, however, there must be a perfect standard through which we compare things, and that standard would be God. The perfect standard would be God because, by religious standards, God is an almighty, perfect force through which all good things arise from. However, there are a few arguments that could be posed against this Way presented by Aquinas.

With this Way stating that some things have more quality than others, and that the perfect model would be God, a problem arises with that of perspective. Not everybody has the same opinion about a certain object. For example, the dollar bill has more or less value in different countries around the world. Therefore, there are different views as to what is perfect, what has more quality, and what has less quality. Which one is right?

Despite the argument that could be posed against this Way, I believe that Aquinas' Fourth Way is the most reasonable compared to the other Ways.