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Jun 9, 2017 · Here St. Thomas Aquinas comments on John 14:6 where Jesus says “I am the way, the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father but by me.” Christ himself is the way, and therefore he says: I am the way. This certainly is eminently right for through him we have access to the Father.
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Sep 4, 2023 · One of the many “questions,” or segments, posed in the book is the question of God’s existence. Specifically, Saint Thomas Aquinas examines rational proofs for the existence of God, using five examples to make his point.
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Jul 13, 2023 · The violent response of the Jews to Jesus’ “I AM” statement indicates they clearly understood what He was declaring—that He was the eternal God incarnate. Jesus was equating Himself with the "I AM" title God gave Himself in Exodus 3:14.
Sep 12, 2023 · Aquinas’ metaphysics revolves around the concept of ‘being as being’, which is the most abstract way to consider existence. He posited that every entity, whether a rock, a plant, or a human, participates in ‘being’, yet each in a different way.
When Jesus used the phrase "I AM," He made specific revelations regarding His identity and nature. These revelations made it clear to all that He was claiming to be much more than a rabbi or prophet; Jesus claimed to be the Messiah—God in human form.
The Christology of Aquinas is resolutely incarnational. Jesus, the incarnate Word, is true God, true human; and that Jesus is the Word, and God, and human, is, Aquinas insists, of decisive importance for human salvation.
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Before discussing what God’s nature is like, Aquinas thinks it’s necessary to give some arguments that establish the existence of God. Aquinas gives five arguments in defense of God’s existence, and these five arguments have come to be known as Aquinas’s Five Ways, or just the Five Ways.