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However, it is from the female component of the supreme being: "Noo tiig tew" ("out of a female womb" - ex utero), that the divine brought forth the ancestors of modern humans, with a female, being the first to be created. [13] There was a mythical speech − the first word[s] uttered by the supreme being. All the competing versions attest to that.
This a priori step in Kant's argument is followed by a step a posteriori, in which he establishes the necessity of an absolutely necessary being. He argues that matter itself contains the principles which give rise to an ordered universe , and this leads us to the concept of God as a Supreme Being, which "embraces within itself everything which ...
The argument from reason is a transcendental argument against metaphysical naturalism and for the existence of God (or at least a supernatural being that is the source of human reason). The best-known defender of the argument is C. S. Lewis .
There are many versions of the transcendental argument for the existence of God (both progressive and regressive), but they generally proceed as follows: [5] If there is a transcendental unity of apperception, God exists.
An example of the teleological argument in Jewish philosophy appears when the medieval Aristotelian philosopher Maimonides cites the passage in Isaiah 40:26, where the "Holy One" says: "Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number:" [46] However, Barry Holtz calls this "a crude form ...
Para is a Sanskrit word that means "higher" in some contexts, and "highest or supreme" in others. [3] Brahman in Hinduism connotes the Absolute, the Ultimate Reality in the universe. [4] [5] In major schools of Hindu philosophy it is the immaterial, efficient, formal and final cause of all that exists.
In 1898, the Scottish anthropologist Andrew Lang proposed that the idea of a Supreme Being, the "High God", or "All Father" existed among some of the simplest of contemporary tribal societies prior to their contact with Western peoples, [2] [3] and that Urmonotheismus ("primitive monotheism") was the original religion of humankind. [2]
The Prologue to the Gospel of John begins with: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him, and without him was not any thing made that was made." [19]