Our God — Page 83
Logical Arguments for the Existence of God 83 from the first being. In other words, the universe, and everything in it, is nothing but imagination and in reality there is no earth, no heaven, no moon, no sun, no stars, no human beings, no ani- mals, no trees, no water, no air, and nothing else. For instance, let us call this universe ‘A’, and call its Creator ‘B’, and suppose ‘C’ created ‘B’, and ‘D’ created ‘C’, and go on suggesting that every being is created by another higher being ad infinitum. We will never be able to establish a cause that can be called the first cause, and when the first cause cannot be established, none of the sub- sequent causes would be established; i. e. a failure to establish the first cause will render all subsequent causes void. Reverting to the example above, if ‘D’ is not established, inevitably ‘C’ would not be established; if there is no ‘C’, there would be no ‘B’, and if there is no ‘B’ then there would no ‘A’. Thus denying ‘D’ inevitably leads to denial of ‘A’, whereas existence of ‘A’ (the letter we have assigned to this world) is unanimously accepted—no one can deny that. Therefore, the kind of reasoning that fails to establish the first cause is faulty, because that leads you to deny the existence of the universe. Therefore, we are obliged to determine a first cause; i. e. to believe in a Being above whom there is no being and obviously that can be the only one who is uncreated, and we call Him God. To summarise, however prolonged this chain [of cause and effect] may be, we will have to determine its end point; i. e. we will have to accept some being at the origin of this chain and that first being is God, who is uncreated, and all others below Him—be they superior and more eminent than each other in their natural and inherent capabilities—are without exception part of creation and governed by the One God. Now I would like to briefly state that the question, ‘Who