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as the creator of this universe or who is monitoring its working. They believe that it is not necessary that a thing can come into existence only if it is created by someone else because if that is so, we shall have to answer who created what you call GOD? In answer you shall have to say that nobody has created GOD, that He is unborn and everlasting. Another such uncomfortable question would be that if GOD has created all this, what was the fun in creating so many contradictions which require complicated solutions?
Jainism does not subscribe to this theory of GOD. It believes that if you examine how our universe functions you will find that it consists of two main categories of elements namely, a dynamic element and another a non dynamic element. We also find that the element which is dynamic supplies its dynamism to the non dynamic one, and it is this process which generates all actions and events in this universe. The element which is dynamic is identified by us as "Soul". In Jain terminology it is called "Jiva" and the element which is non dynamic
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