Be sure to grasp the main points in each of the “five ways.”
What will be an ideal response?
Answer:
Change - the unmoved mover; all things change but change cannot go on infinitely and so it must begin somewhere - God.
Cause - causes cannot go on forever and so there must be a 'first cause' itself not uncaused - God.
Possibility and Necessity - possible beings can be or can not be, and so it means that they once not existing, and that at once there was nothing. And if there was nothing then, there should be nothing now, which is not the case. So there must be, a necessary being, that has caused those possible beings to exist, without itself needing to be caused to exist.
Goodness in things - there are grades of good and therefore there must be something that is maximum good; the best, the most excellent - God
Guidedness of Nature - everything tends to its goal, everything in nature has a purpose and this purpose is directed to its goal by someone with understanding and this we call God
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