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The response
{
"id": 13,
"question_id": 2,
"number": 3,
"title": "Whether God exists?",
"slug": "whether-god-exists",
"objectiones": [
{
"n": 1,
"text": "It seems that God does not exist; because if one of two contraries be infinite, the other would be altogether destroyed. But the word \"God\" means that..."
},
{
"n": 2,
"text": "Further, it is superfluous to suppose that what can be accounted for by a few principles has been produced by many. But it seems that everything we se..."
}
],
"sed_contra": "It is said in the person of God: \"I am Who am.\" (Exodus 3:14)",
"respondeo": "The existence of God can be proved in five ways. The first and more manifest way is the argument from motion. It is certain, and evident to our senses, that in the world some things are in motion. Now whatever is in moti...",
"responsiones": [
{
"n": 1,
"text": "As Augustine says (Enchiridion xi): \"Since God is the highest good, He would not allow any evil to exist in His works, unless His omnipotence and good..."
},
{
"n": 2,
"text": "Since nature works for a determinate end under the direction of a higher agent, whatever is done by nature must needs be traced back to God, as to its..."
}
],
"scripture_citations": [
{
"book_id": 2,
"book_slug": "exodus",
"book_name": "Exodus",
"chapter": 3,
"verse_number": 14,
"text_en": "God said to Moses: I AM WHO AM. He said: Thus shalt thou say to the children of ..."
}
]
}Abridged for display — the live response carries every field in full.
The same response, set as a reader reads it
Prima Pars · Question 2 · Article 3
Whether God exists?
Objection 1
It seems that God does not exist; because if one of two contraries be infinite, the other would be altogether destroyed. But the word "God" means that He is infinite goodness. If, therefore, God existed, there would be no evil discoverable; but there is evil in the world. Therefore God does not exist.
Objection 2
Further, it is superfluous to suppose that what can be accounted for by a few principles has been produced by many. But it seems that everything we see in the world can be accounted for by other principles, supposing God did not exist. For all natural things can be reduced to one principle which is nature; and all volu...
It is said in the person of God: "I am Who am." (Exodus 3:14)
Respondeo
The existence of God can be proved in five ways. The first and more manifest way is the argument from motion. It is certain, and evident to our senses, that in the world some things are in motion. Now whatever is in motion is put in motion by another, for nothing can be in motion except it is in potentiality to that towards which it is in motion; whereas a thing moves inasmuch as it is in act. For motion is nothing else than the reduction of something from potentiality to actuality. But nothing can be reduced from ...
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