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ESSAY – THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
The question of a higher being was not far from realization ever since man became aware of his own existence. ... Some philosophers believed that the existence of God can be proven in existing things that surrounded them. While others accepted God simply out of faith.
One of the greatest philosophers, Aristotle acknowledged that God had started everything in the universe. He believed that “there must be a God who started all movement in the natural world.” He developed nature’s scale, with non-living things at the very bottom, then animals, human beings, and God was at the top. According to Aristotle, God was the first mover or the cause of everything in the world. ...
Plotinus, 205-270, believed that the world was split into two poles – one where there was light, thus involved God, while the other was darkness without God’s existence. He never specified if God truly existed or not. All he stated was that God equaled light. ... He sided with Plotinus in believing that evil existed in the absence of God. Everything belonged to God, including the material body and the soul. When humans die, God saves the good ones and damns the bad ones. ... He claimed that God taught through the Bible and through reason. Just as Aristotle came up with his nature’s scale, Aquinas developed with a degree where animals were at the bottom of the list, next was human, then angels and then God rested at the top of the degree.
Approximate Word count = 1243
Approximate Pages = 5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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