There are many truths that can be discovered about God. These truths are reached through the human intellect and through the acceptance by faith. In Summa Contra Gentiles, St. Thomas makes the argument that “There are, consequently, some intelligible truths about God that are open to the human reason; but there are others that absolutely surpass its power” . The truths that surpass the human intellect, do so because the human intellect does not have the capacity to fully understand a substance at the level that the angelic intellect can, let alone that the divine intellect can. For those truths which can be reached through reason, if were strictly reached only through reason, would not be grasped by all humans because there are those who will not have the intellectual capacity to do so, there are those who do not have the time, and there are those who are simply too indolent.
A main argument that is brought up in c.3 of Summa Contra Gentiles, is that when thinking about the “gradation” of intellects that exist, we can conclude that some beings have the capacity of using reason to find divine truths, but others cannot. For example, in the world that surrounds us we can observe individuals with many levels of human intellect. One can compare a simple man to the most intelligent philosopher in the world. The simple man will not have the…show more content… To understand only through faith is simple enough and can be done by everyone, but to accept and understand through only reason would lead to some consequences. This brings us to the second argument made by St. Thomas Aquinas in c.4, that “if this truth were left solely as a matter of inquiry for the human reason,...few men would possess the knowledge of God.” The three reasons that support this argument are that it is because some people are unable to use reason, some people have no time, and others are just too
