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Is God the cause of Everything?By Judson Castle
Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715)
• French Philosopher• Occasionalist• ‘Vision in God’
Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716)• Pre established harmony • Calculus • Independent causation
Causation Comparison• Genuine
Power from within substance
• God initiate causation
Adam & Eve
Leibniz- God creates substance but not possibilities
2 Kings
I reject Leibniz’s theology“Morgan says in that moment of defying death she reached out to God. And she claims God turned her situation around; ‘I just felt as if God touched my shoulder and pushed me back against my car into my seat to relax me’.”