Can God's Existence be Demonstrated Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica Q2, A2-3

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No. If it could, it would have been demonstrated and its existence would be evident. No supernatural entity or event has ever been demonstrated to have existed or occurred.

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@@johnhall42 did you watch the video?

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@@classicchristianliterature I did.

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@@classicchristianliterature I do not find ‘there are things I cannot explain, so I will adopt a belief in something even less explicable as an explanation’ to be persuasive.

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@@johnhall42I don’t think that’s what Aquinas was arguing at all. He says demonstration can be made in 2 ways a priori and a posteriori. He then goes on to argue from the effect to the cause (a posteriori) and in his next section discusses the need for a first cause. Do you refute that there must be a first cause?

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A first cause for what in particular?