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{{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|God.|14-13}} | {{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|God.|14-13}} | ||
... | {{Style P-No indent|ledge of God, we are driven to the conclusion that such proposition is unmeaning and absurd, that it is nothing more nor less than stating that Humpty Dumpty is abracadabra, and that lastly it is not a product of rational thought.}} | ||
We have shewn briefly that on the ground of our having no knowledge of anything beyond the universe. and therefore of God it is absurd to assert that God is the cause of the universe. But if the proposition that God is the cause of the universe is stated and assented to, knowledge of God is necessarily implied. God is then within our knowledge, and subject as a matter of course to the law of causation from which orthodox believers wish to emancipate Him. If God falls within the sphere of causation, the claim to eternity must necessarily be abandoned. The old belief that God is eternal, that God is everlasting is unfounded. From the above exposition, it will be seen that either we cannot assert the proposition that God is the cause of the universe, or that the cause of the universe is not eternal or that it is no God. | |||
Perhaps the reader may think that we have all along been engaged in plucking a crow, or in triumphing over wind mills like the hero of La Mancha. But a little consideration will show that no argument that is put forth against us is too trifling to engage our attention. Though what we have said is familiar to to all who know any thing of Logic, yet to others it may be useful either in dispelling their own delusions, or in disarming the sophistry of religious believers. Such is our apology for harping upon truisms. | |||
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