U2: 5 Proofs & Truth Review

Faith is something that is only true to individuals, not all people.

It is a mental belief that is unreasonable, illogical. 

• True

• False

What does Faith seek?

• Truth

• comfort

• argument

• niceness

What does science seek?

• Truth

• opinions backed by results

• data

• superiority

Since the Catholic Church teaches that faith & science have the same goals, what does that mean? 

• You can only believe in one and be right

• They can both never be true

• They can never contradict each other

• All choices are true

Who came up with the 5 proofs of God's existence?

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  St. Thomas Aquinas

• St. Augustine

• St. Teresa of Avila

• St. Pope John Paul II

The 5 proofs are _______ arguments of God's existence.

• Logical

• Religious

• Illogical

• Unreasonable

Which proof is this: The entire universe is in motion, someone had to put it in motion.

• Unmoved Mover/First Mover

• Causality

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  Contingency

• Intelligent Being

• Perfection

Which proof is this:

Everything in existence was caused by something else and did not just appear out of thin air.

This is the cause and effect way in which the universe operates

• Unmoved Mover/First Mover

• Causality

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  Contingency

• Intelligent Being

• Perfection

Which proof is this:

There is a necessary being on which the existence of things is dependent.

( In other words, the reason the world hasn’t just vanished by now is because God, the one necessary being, continues to hold it in existence)

• Unmoved Mover/First Mover

• Causality

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  Contingency

• Intelligent Being

• Perfection

Which proof is this:

The world works in ordered ways, not chaos - consider gravity, magnetism, the weather systems, ect.

For all of this intelligent design to happen completely at random was impossible for St. Thomas to accept.

• Unmoved Mover/First Mover

• Causality

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  Contingency

• Intelligent Being

• Perfection