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(Part 2)
Text below comes from The Spirits' Book, by Allan Kardec
(Book First - Causes. Chapter I)
What about the opinion which attributes the first things formation to a random matter combination, in other words, to chance?
"An absurdity. Which wise person could consider chance as an intelligent agent? Besides, what is chance? Nothing!"
The harmony which
regulates the universe mechanism can only result from
combinations adopted in view of predetermined ends. Thus, by its
very nature, such harmony reveals the existence of an Intelligent
Power. To
attribute the first things formation to random does not make sense,
because
chance cannot produce the results of intelligence. If random could be
intelligent it would cease to be random.
"You have a proverb which says the worker is known by their work. Look around you and from the work quality infer that of the worker."
We judge the power of an intelligence by its works. No human can create that which is produced by nature. It is evident that the first cause must be an intelligence superior to human.
Whatever may be
the prodigies accomplished by human intelligence, this intelligence
itself must have a cause, and the greater are the results it achieves,
the greater must be the cause, of which it is just an effect. This
Supreme Intelligence is the first cause of everything, whatever
the name by which humanity may call It.
What is God?
"God is the Supreme
Intelligence - first cause of everything."
What is to be understood by infinity?
"That which has neither
beginning nor end; the unknown. All that is unknown is infinite.''
Can we say that God is infinity?
"Incomplete definition. Poverty of human speech, unable to define what transcends human intelligence."
God is infinite in perfection but
"infinity" is an abstraction. To say that God is
infinity is to replace a thing attribute for the thing
itself, and to define something unknown by a reference to some other
thing equally unknown.
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want that others do
to you. (Matthew 7:12)
You'll know the truth and the truth will make you free.
(John
8:32)
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