CLE REVIEW QUIZ

It is a systematic compendium of theological teachings of the Catholic Church written by St. Thomas Aquinas where we can find his 5 Proofs for God's Existence.

• Catechism of The Catholic Church

• Summa Theologica

• Summa Contra Gentiles

• Catechism for Filipino Catholics

TRUE or FALSE:

According to Aquinas, it is necessary that there be an Unmoved Mover

• True

• False

This is a "term" for the efficient cause which is not caused by others or anything but itself.

• Untouched Cause

• Uncaused Being

• Uncaused Cause

• Untouched Reason

TRUE or FALSE

According to Aquinas, the first efficient cause of everything is GOD

• TRUE

• FALE

TRUE OR FALSE

According to Aquinas, Possible beings are beings that

can be created and corrupted or beings that can exist or not exist.

SOME EXAMPLES OF POSSIBLE BEINGS ARE: HUMANS, ANIMALS & PLANTS.

• TRUE

• FALSE

As we look at the world around us, The bird's wing, designed for the purpose of flight; the human ear, designed for the purpose of hearing; the natural environment, designed to support life; and on and on. If there is design, there must be a designer. This describes the proof of .

• Intelligent/ Grand Cause

• Implied Intelligence

• Intelligent/Grand Design

According to Aquinas' argument for degree of perfection, If any other being would be compared or evaluated against such a perfect and higher being = THEY WOULD ALWAYS BE JUDGED AS LESS PERFECT

• False

• True

Which argument best describes this statement?: "We perceive things around us that may exist in a certain time and cease in another. We assume that

everything is a contingent being which means that their necessity to exist is dependent on something."

• Argument to Necessary Being

• Argument From Degree

• Argument for Motion

According to Aquinas, a grand or INTELLIGENT DESIGNER does not exist because all beings are imperfect and no one is intelligent enough to set such a GRAND DESIGN.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Which of Aquinas' proof for God's existence can be attributed by this statement?

Anything that is in motion cannot have put itself in motion but has to have been put into motion by a first mover/unmoved mover. We call that first mover, God.

• Argument From Degrees of Perfection

• Argument From Motion

• Argument From Intelligent Design

• Argument From Possibility and Necessity