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On Aquinas's Way to God

One of the issues that continually emerges in discussions of the existence of God is His status as a primary cause. God is often described as the first, primary, fundamental cause of things. Accordingly, in attempted demonstrations of God, if it can be established that there is a first cause, then we are somewhat on the way to God. Frequently then the focus of theistic arguments for God's existence will be on the nature of causality and establishing some first cause of all things. A typical way of doing this is known as the Kalam argument. The general form of Kalam style arguments for God's existence is to show that whatever has a beginning of existence has a cause of existence, all created things have a beginning of existence, in which case there is a cause of all created things. I allude to the Kalam argument above not to interrogate it; the Kalam argument has numerous defenders who will rigorously seek to justify every one of their claims and will indeed dispute t