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Efficient Cause

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

EFFICIENT CAUSALITY

IN THE WORLD OF SENSE WE FIND THAT THERE IS AN ORDER OF CAUSES
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What does this argument propose?

ARGUMENTS:

  • There is an efficient cause for everything nothing can be efficient cause of itself.
  • It is not possible to regress to infinity in efficient causes.
  • To take away the cause is to take away the effect
  • If there is no first cause then there will be no others.
  • Therefore, a first cause exists and He is God.
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It is impossible for anything to be the efficient cause of itself, for in this case it would be prior to itself

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Apart from and transcending the series or mundane of efficient causes, There is a first cause that is not caused, or an unconditioned cause and he is called God.

WITHOUT A FIRST CAUSE WHICH WE

CALL UNCAUSE CAUSE EXISTENCE IS A MIRACLE.