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’.”