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JAINA CONCEPT OF GOD IN JAINA THEISM
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That which has no material cause can never come into existence, for instance ass's horns. Argument like this is liable to weaken, rather than strengthen your position.
If you insist upon the things of your own imagination out of prejudice you can never be considered a critic. Your statement involves a fallacy of mutual dependence.
If one pure existence of God, not depending upon any material cause before the creation were premised, then only can He is proved Omnipotent, and when he is proved omnipotent. He can be said to have created the universe without any material cause. Until one of these two propositions is established, the other cannot be proved. This is reasoning in a circle. The two propositions are either to prove the creator of the universe or to prove God omnipotent. When He is proved omnipotent, then can He be proved to have created the universe without any material cause? When He is proved to be the creator of the universe, then only can He be proved Omnipotent. Is not this reasoning in a circle?
(3)Another Question."
The Existence of God is self-evident. Why do you not consider Him as the creator of the universe?
Muniji answered:
If the creation of the universe by God is proved self-evident, then none can have dispute about it and our controversy about God may also cease because what is self-evident admits of no argumentation. But that the presence of God cannot be known by direct perception, has been laid down in Vedas. *
*Note: - Without feet and hands, He walks and grasps, without eyes He sees, without ear, He hears; He knows the
"Muni Atmārāmaji, Ibid. Q.No. 13, P-27
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