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From the times of Confucius to Jesus, Mohammad, and Thomas Aquinas, and even into this present day, the question of the existence of a Divine Being envelops the minds of people. Human beings often wonder why they are here, what the purpose of life is, whether or not there is life after death, or whether this is all some natural evolutionary existence. People try to reason with the things around them in order to understand the world. Many, for example, ask the question, “If God exists than why is there evil in the world?” Thomas Aquinas, a well known philosopher of the 13th century addresses these questions and many others by using his five ways to measure the existence of God. The five points he uses for his arguments are: God is of infinite goodness, nature and efficient cause, possibility and necessity of existence of God, gradation in things, and governce of the world. With each argument there are objections to Aquinas’s theories. However, he counter acts these rejections and proves that God does exist. Two of his most intriguing arguments are the ones about God being of infinite goodness, and the possibilities and necessity of God’s existence. According to Aquinas God means infinite goodness. He defines th