A Summary of the Several Church Teaching through Logic
Has anyone ever wondered how the world started? Or why? Or maybe the person has asked how do we discern between good and bad. Or how we came into the world. What is the answer? It is found in Catholic Apologetics. One of the most major questions that Catholic Apologetics answers is the existence of God. How do we know God exists? Well. Look around you. The world is orderly and beautiful. Could the world really have come out of nothing like the Darwinists believe? Of course not. Nothing can come of nothing. So a logical conclusion would be the world was created by a wonderful, supernatural, and great being. The being we call God. Also reason calls for a necessary being. All humans are contingent(dependant on another being) so they have to be dependent on some necessary being. That necessary being would have to be eternal, all powerful, all knowing, good, and the list goes on. God is not wholly comprehensible to us because he is eternal. But to explain some of his aspects: God is eternal because if he wasn't eternal he would never have been and therefore there would be nothing now; God is all powerful because since he made all things he has control over all things; He is all knowing since he made all things; He is good because he created us out of goodness because if he is God he didn't need us. Another proof of God is the existence of conscience. Why do we have a conscience(the ability to discern right and wrong)? God gave us a conscience to help us in making decisions between him and the devil. But someone might question why is there right and wrong. Well God put us on this earth to show our love for him, so if there were no challenges how could we show our love? So who else can explain conscience? Also how did natural law come about? Every person has natural law written in his heart even the savages had a set of rules and regulations. God gave us natural law to give us an already set of rules. Murder for instance. Every person knows naturally that taking a person's life is wrong. The Indians would have a person executed if he committed murder. So I think that from the logical conclusion of the creation of the world, the existence of a necessary being, right and wrong, and natural law we can conclude that God exists just like the Catholic Church teaches and Catholic Apologetics defends. Let me remind you that this menial little article but touches the facet of the diamond of the explanation of the existence of God. Let me refer you to the Summa Theologica or Catholic Apologetics by Fr. Laux. - J. Thomas Schutzman