
S1E28 - The Existence of God | Fr. James Brent, O.P.
Aquinas 101 - Course 3: God and Creation
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Aquinas' Argument for the Uniformity of a Needed Being
"There's one necessary being that gives existence to all contingent beings," he says. "We can think of this necessary being as a kind of, what, a fountain? An ontological fountain, okay?" Aquinas is saying let's assume for the sake of the argument that time is everlasting,. Still everything in here, including time itself, is a contingent being because by definition it's the order of contingent beings.
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