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Creative Principle

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Announcements › Forums › God the Only Cause and Creator – June 4th, 2017 › Creative Principle

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  • June 1, 2017 at 7:52 am #4249
    Susanne
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    S&H 1: “The creative Principle — Life, Truth, and Love — is God.”
    I don’t think I ever looked up the word principle in the dictionary! I was surprised to learn that it is defined as: (Webster’s 1828)
    1) In a general sense, the cause, source or origin of any thing.
    3) Being that produces any thing; operative cause.
    6) A general truth; a law comprehending many subordinate truths…”

    Up to now, I have thought of Principle in terms of a “general truth”, not as “the cause, source or origin of any thing”, or “operative cause”.

    I have always loved thinking of God as Principle–the first listed of the divine synonyms for God (S&H p. 115)–and now I have a better understanding why. The 7 synonyms for God are such a gift to contemplate, for me truly the Comforter!

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