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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

"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

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

To think of the First Cause as finite, is to think of it as limited.

From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones

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

From Science Daily ● May 30, 2024

Each final cause leads to another, until we get to the first cause or prime mover.

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

But there had always been the lake, which was the town’s first cause of existence, a place for immigrant settlers to put down their loads.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien