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God is therefore self-dependent-not under the control of some one else. God is eternal. If He were non-eternal, some one else is required to create Him. There is no other such Being; therefore God is eternal. It will thus be observed that God is the creator of the world.
A. Your statement that the earth, mountains, trees, &c. are the work of an intelligent Being, is untenable, for your proposition does not recognise the quality of "pervasion." The inference is not valid till supported by the evidence of "perva sion." What I say is recognised by all learned men. Now I ask you whether the God that creates has a body or no. If He has a body, is His body visible just like ours or invisible like the body of ghosts &c? If you consider that He has a body like ours, then it involves the fallacy of the infringement of direct evidence, as Grass, trees, rainbow, clouds &c. are seen being produced without the presence of God. If you accept the other statement, then the body ofGod is invisi
