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# Logic is the process of deducing truths from one or more precedent truth(s).
# Without a precedent truth from which deductions can be made, there can be no logic.
# One or more precedent truths must exist before logic deduction is possible.
# At least some truth(s) must precede all logic, and these truths are aspects of the nature of God as a precedent for all that can be thought.
# It is illogical to argue that logic precludes the existence of God, the precedent of all that we can know.



Variation
# No word is self-defining.
# But there must be a first word that is self-defining.
# "I am, who I am" describes the God who is self-defining

Note:  This argument is a variation of the first cause argument: "There must be a first cause that is uncaused, and that is what we call God."


=== In the Beginning ===
Before any universe existed, there must have been a beginning.  

But that required something that needed no beginning, and was before the beginning, and which could begin the beginning.

And that something before any universes' beginning must have been self defining.  Why? Because everything we can know or observe in our universe must be defined by something other than itself.  One cannot describe "purple" except by reference to blue and red. One cannot define a molecule except by reference to chemical reactions, atoms, electrons, quarks, or information theory. And each layer of information must be transposed by another layer and it by another and another... none of which are self-defining.  Yet if we pursue each layer of that which defines other things to the ultimate end, there must be something which is self-defining.  It does not rely on encoding and decoding and otherness.  It is itself, and it is that from which at least one other layer of information can be derived and defined.

It is this self-defining truth from which all other truths arise and in which all other truths embryonically existed before the beginning through which all of the truths we no perceive unfolded.  And this self defining truth, before all other truths, defined itself as "I am, Who I Am."  And because "I AM" understood Himself perfectly, His Understanding of Himself and so His Understanding of Himself was perfect and was co-equal to Himself and was begotten by Himself and was loved by Himself and loved Himself.  And the Understanding of Self was called Son by the Self, and the Self was called Father, and the love between Father and Son was also perfect and a complete understanding of the loved Father and Son, and was called the Holy Spirit, and in every respect this Trinity was self-defined and did not rely on a beginning, but preceded the beginning and gave existence to the beginning which in every respect relies on the Trinity from which the Word and all that is defined by it proceeds.





There are two paradoxes: What came first?  What is self-defining?