Q&A: The Cosmological Argument
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The Cosmological Argument
Question
Honorable Rabbi,
Why assume one first cause rather than several first causes (like, for example, the first horse and the first wolf)?
Answer
It is certainly possible to assume several causes. I wrote this in the book. For example, each of the proofs of His existence speaks about God defined differently, and therefore if we accept all of them, we have proven the existence of several gods.
Of course, there is Ockham’s razor, which gives an advantage to the conclusion that they are all different facets of one entity. And there is also the tradition that says He is one (He tells us that He is one).
Besides that, it seems that one cannot say there are several first causes, because then the question would be asked in what space they exist and how they do not contradict one another.