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“Whether God Exists” - S.T. Aquinas In the article, “Whether God Exists,” Saint Thomas Aquinas addresses the issue of the existence of God, or lack thereof. He proves the existence of God in five ways. Aquinas’ first way of proving the existence of God is the argument from motion. In this argument he points out that everything in motion, (motion meaning “the reduction of something from a state of potentiality into a state of actuality”), cannot move itself. It only has the potentiality of being moved by something else already in motion. “If that by which is put in motion be itself put in motion, then this also must need to be put in motion by another, and that by another again.” However, this regress cannot be infinite because if it were, there would be no first mover. A first mover is essential in this process for the simple fact that if there were none, nothing would be moved, and therefore nothing would exist. This first mover, Aquinas says, is what everyone understands to be God. The second and third ways Aquinas proves the existence of God are quite similar. The second way supposes, “In the world of sense we find there is an order of efficient causation.” This order makes it impossible f