How did St. Aquinas express the idea of creation?

Cosmological Argument

The Catholic Saint St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) developed the cosmological argument.
St. Thomas Aquinas believed fully in Gods omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience, which are the pillars for his argument on creation.
Looking at the world St. Thomas Aquinas recognised that everything in it could be traced back to something before it, and so on and so on.
St. Thomas Aquinas asked the same question. However, he knew the only logical explanation was God. God is the first cause of everything.
Think back to the ‘omni’ qualities of God. It is because of those qualities that He is the only possible first cause for creation.
St. Thomas Aquinas agreed with the Cosmological argument and expressed it differently; the causation argument.
Looking at the world St. Thomas Aquinas began to ponder all the events within it. He considered how every event has a cause.
Keep in mind that modern science confirms that ‘something cannot come from nothing’ and ‘everything in creation has a cause’.

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