Search for Truth
Faith and Reason
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I am done with what you associate with God.’
(6:75-78)
Argument of this kind may appear to be simple, but
they are invested with deeper meaning. For this
reason, they have been engaged in as much in the
past as today.
PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENT
The second kind of argument is that first
propounded by Greek philosophers. Based on pure
logic, it was so popular in the medieval ages that
Jews and Christians and Muslims all incorporated it
into their theological system. Commonly known as
First Cause, it may be summed up as follows:
The world man observes with his senses must
have been brought into being by God as the
First Cause. Philosophers have argued that
the observable order of causation is not self-
explanatory. It can only be accounted for by
the existence of a First Cause. This First
Cause, however, must not be considered
simply as the first in a series of successive
causes, but rather as the First Cause in the
