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  First Cause

  noun

  God.
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  first cause

  noun

  a source or cause of something

First Cause

American  

noun

Theology.

1. God.

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first cause British  

noun

1. a source or cause of something

2. (often capitals) (esp in philosophy) God considered as the uncaused creator of all beings apart from himself

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Etymology

Origin of First Cause

First recorded in 1895–1900

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This reverts to the problem of the First Cause, which is the uncaused cause that gave rise to all other causes.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 4, 2018

Here the First Cause of street cars, steamboats, telephones could be seen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Barth insists that natural theology can only understand God as a First Cause or a Great Designer or some similar abstract idea that in reality is a product of man's own thinking processes.

From Time Magazine Archive

But to him, ethical piety cannot depend upon the impersonal First Cause manifested in nature but upon the First Cause manifested in the "will-to-love."

From Time Magazine Archive

I have found nowhere any explanation of the Universe, of the First Cause; I have found nowhere any true rule of life.

From The Hearts of Men by Fielding, H. (Harold)

The differences in density first cause stars to collide and merge.

From Science Daily ● May 30, 2024

The primary focus of cosmological arguments will be on proving a logically necessary first cause to explain the order observed.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

West Antarctica “is what will first cause big problems for everyone with sea level rise,” he said.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2022

Kerry’s first cause after returning from fighting in the Vietnam War was activism for the first Earth Day, in 1970, he says.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 7, 2021

The newspapers weren’t allowed to say which of our warships’d been hit at first, cause of the Official Secrets Act.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell