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From my perspective, that’s a legitimate critique of . Everything’s got a “because” attached to it.
Everything’s got a “because” attached to it.
Indeed, all effects have causes.
So now, after everything we’ve established, there’s something ... weird ... about needing a “because” attached to everything.
It leaves the impression that it’s “worried” about Causality.
While all things have their Principle in the Essence of God, there are contingencies that are nonetheless important insofar as they, even in their temporal / horizontal mode, have implications on our vertical relation with God. And so such causes and effects, such reasoning, is still important and must still be considered.
all effects have causes.
I’m as yet unconvinced the Whole of Everything is comprised of “causes” and “effects”. I suspect a vast, underlying, implicate primordial “essence” or whatnot, entirely beyond our grasp.
The essence of God of course is beyond our grasp, and of course it without a cause, because He is not an effect.
But His creatures are effects, since they are contingent, and finite, and temporal rather than eternal.
Thus when discussing matters within time and nature, causation obviously applies.
You would enjoy Kant. Cause and effect are necessary a priori conditions that are supplied by the mind, which structure any possible experience of creation.
It is from the essence of God that we derive the very faculties that create our experience.
The essence is to produce experience where cause and effect make said experience sensible.
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