The Existence of God
Date: 22 April 2025 The existence of God is the premise of Christianity. However, many non-believers do not believe in God as they cannot grasp the concept of God’s existence. The aim of this essay is to prove the existence of God, using Aquinas’s Theories of Gradation and Design and a theist perspective. This essay will first discuss the Theory of Gradation and the Theory of Design, their objections and finally the clarification of these objections. The Argument of Gradation is Aquinas’s fourth argument for the existence of God. This argument suggests that there are degrees in which moral good can occur and that the highest form of good is God (UNISA, 2024). To explain this theory, we may use the example of a circle: In our reality, there is no such thing as a “perfect circle”, despite this, we are aware of what a perfect circle would entail. Such as the example above, we may not know what the truest form of good is, but we know that it contains qualities (such as honesty, kindne...