St. Thomas Aquinas

Aquinas’ five proof for the Existence of God
St. Thomas Aquinas uses five ways to explain the existence of God. Each of these proofs weighs heavily on Aristotle and other later philosophers whose roots are in Judaism and Arabian countries. Each of his proofs relies on motion or a source of action. The way Aquinas approaches each is based on the principle that an infinite amount of cause could never happen. So lets look at each proof individually.
Aristotle states that motion is any change from a potential state to an actual state. To say that each potential can act as an agent to each to become an actual is impossible because that would lead to infinite actualizing. There has to be a set starting point, beginning, or the Unmoved Mover. This Unmoved Mover is the cause of all the actualizing in the world. Just as if a person walked into a room and saw three balls tied to some string attached to a pole and they are moving. Even for all eternity the balls are moving they still ...