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DIVINITY IN JAINISM.
What are we to understand by Divinity ?
That there is a Creator of this limitless universe full of planets and stars, that it is owing to his law inexorable that suns and moons light up in space, breeze blows in all the directions, streams of rain destroy the hardness of the soil, vegetables and animals grow and the world with its pleasures and pains continues in its perennial freshness--ordinarıly, people have applied the term God to such an undeterminable Architect of the universe. Not only the Hindus but the Christians, the Mahomedans and the Jews as well have regarded God as the Creator of the world.
The doctrine of a World-Creator is known as Theism in western philosophy. Paley, Janet, Flint, Martineau are some of the great upholders of the theistic theory. They establish the doctrine of the world-Creator in the following way If one attends carefully to the hands,
