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Like Thomas Aquinas, I believe that it is unreasonable to believe in God without any evidence or argument at all, but that there is sufficient evidence to believe in God and that one must have both faith and reason to support their evidence. The evidentialist challenge to theistic belief lies on two premises. First, it is irrational to accept theistic belief in the absence of sufficient evidence and secondly, that we do not have sufficient evidence for the proposition that God exists. As an evidentialist theist, I agree with the first premise, but not the second. Aquinas, an evidentialist theist , believed in two particular kinds of truths in the Christian Religion. Truths that can be known by natural reason, such as the claim that God exists, and truths that we accept by faith alone such as the perception of God as triune, that God was incarnate in Jesus and at the same time, a perfect God and perfect human. We cannot know this is true by any sort of natural reason, but through our own beliefs and faith. “There are, consequently, some intelligible truths about God that are open to the human reason; but there are others that absolutely surpass its power” (Aquinas 25).
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