If God can exist without a creator, why not everything else?

  • @kromem
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    211 months ago

    There was a religious sect around the 3rd century CE that thought this in a literal sense.

    That there was an original spontaneously existing man which in turn brought forth the creator of a copy of the earlier universe to which it was effectively God.

    (No, this is not Gnosticism, even though it has similar elements and was at a similar time. In that belief system there’s a Monad creator behind everything which created the forms being copied as well as the demiurge.)