Question: Is the cause always caused?
1. A cause caused is dependant on its cause for it to exist.
2. That which is dependant cannot bring itself into being.
3. Therefore not all causes are caused because
(i) if all causes are caused all causes are dependant
(ii) if all causes are dependant no cause would exist because that which is dependant cannot bring itself into being.
Question: Is there an absolute cause?
4. A caused cause is always relative. (see footnote 1)
5. The opposite to relative can only be absolute. (see footnote 2)
6. Therefore a cause not caused is not relative and so must be absolute.
Question: Can there be more than one Absolute Cause?
7. That which is limited cannot be absolute.
8. More than one absolute cause would be limited by the other.
9. Therefore there can only be one absolute cause.
Footnote 1. Definition of relative: Dependant on or interconnected with something else; not absolute.
Footnote 2. Definition of absolute: Something regarded as independent of and unrelated to anything else.
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great work, but you stopped too early. expand on the conclusions: what have you proven here? It is certainly more than His existence. out of the 99 names, you've hit on a fair few. which are they, and which remain? can those others be approached similarly?
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