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Unlike natural theology and revealed theology, however, the philosophy of religion is not concerned only with the existence or non-existence of God, but with a wide range of other issues that religion raises and is connected to, such as life after death, ethics, and moral behavior. The application of rationality to these other areas of religion raises other philosophical questions as well.

One type of theory used by religious philosophers (or natural theologists) are cosmological arguments. These attempt to prove the existence of God by logically proving that the universe must have had a cause or "prime mover," and this cause, then, is God (or gods). Aristotle's three point sum up the groundwork for most cosmological arguments: 1) something cannot be the cause of itself; 2) something cannot come from nothing; and 3) there cannot be an infinite series of causes and effects. If these arguments are taken as true, cosmological arguments attest that the existence of God as causer, the something from which things come, and the beginner of all causes and effects.

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The problem with the cosmological argument is its explanation of where God came from, if he could nt have come from nothing.

St. Thomas Aquinas' lists five ways to prove the existence of God. The first is basically a restatement of Aristotle's logic derived from movement: tings are in motion, and things only move when someone or thing moved them, therefore there must have been a first (or prime) mover -- God. The fourth way is more complex; Aquinas claims that all classes of things (heat is the example he uses) have one thing that typifies that class (e.g. fire), and that since there are good things in the world, there must be a prototypical source of good -- again, God. Ultimately, though, if God's existence were provable rather than merely logically assert-able, it probably would have….....

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