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  First Cause

  noun

  God.
• first cause
  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

Example Sentences

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

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

"Every form of living Christianity," he says, "is pantheistic in that it is bound to envisage everything that exists as having its being in the great First Cause of all being."

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

God and man—the Creator and the thing created, the First Cause and the last effect—are both judiciously only introduced into the drama by hearsay.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den