Fight For A Place in the First Efficient Cause

Fight For A Place in the First Efficient Cause Who and what is God? Why do some people adamantly conclude that a God exists? St. Aquinas goes from believing that there must be an efficient first cause to the conclusion that God is that cause. Why must Aquinas make such an extraordinary jump from there being a cause, to assuming that this cause must be God? In a scientific point of view, wouldn’t it …

…of views, moreover an easy approach to the unsolved mysteries and theories of the universe. How ever, matter is a better, well-defined fit. Overall, St. Aquinas only assumes God’s existence; he does not prove it. Matter “is”, just as God “is”. The explanation of God is not needed and therefore there is no place for God in the discussion of the first efficient cause. Furthermore, God does not exist as an efficient first cause.