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Now, I, Maclain Hunter, will go through these 5 ways rigorously to validate and/or optimize each of them:

1. Motion has logical identity and things are in motion in an empirically observable fashion as evidenced in the sciences, but only Reason (Cause) moves or causes itself, everything else that is moved or caused is moved or caused by something else which at its ultimate root is cause by Reason (Cause - Logos). This chain can be infinite but must be founded upon a Rational Foundation that acts as its First Cause (Origin) and Rational Standard (Logic), thus Reason must be the Root Cause of Motion, which can be rationally understood as God. God is traditionally defined as the Logos when “God” is referring to the God of Reason and Logic, also known in orthodox theology as “the One True God”, so to call Reason or the Logos “God” is not arbitrary or distortion of language but rather valid and helps us to make sense of the role and Reality of God in theological texts and beyond those texts in the Universe.

2. Pure Reason is the efficient rational cause of itself because it exists timelessly and rationally as a result of meeting and BEING the Rational Standard - the True First Cause that is the True God (Logical Origin). There is an infinite chain of particular (non-universal) efficient causes. These causes and logics must however be based in and coherent with the Universal Logic (Universal Cause) to be objectively coherent. The Universal Cause is the Universal Logic and the First Principle of Logic and Existence which is at once and necessarily God and Logic as the “Coherent Universal Foundation”.

3. Among beings, all are ONE and all are necessary - in and as the Absolute Truth of the Logos, entangled in and as “Full Coherence” (Superposition) at the. Everything that is possible and realized is necessarily “being” and enjoying identity and existence. This necessary “Being of all Being” is the Universal Logic (God - Logos) and the Logos coherent Universe/Reality.\n
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5. Nature operates according to the Natural Order and does not act (truly) randomly without Logic, Cause and the purpose that Logos as God brings to Existence and the Natural Logical System (Nature). To have a “thing” or “things” lacking all logical interconnection, intelligence, and connection to the Logos (God) would be a logical contradiction as such “things” that lack as described cannot exist or move toward an end (evolve) that is more perfect and more coherent with Universal Logic and the Cosmos Intelligence or “Logos” which is God (Theos).\n
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Now, I, Maclain Hunter, will go through these 5 ways rigorously to validate and/or optimize each of them:

1. Motion has logical identity and things are in motion in an empirically observable fashion as evidenced in the sciences, but only Reason (Cause) moves or causes itself, everything else that is moved or caused is moved or caused by something else which at its ultimate root is cause by Reason (Cause - Logos). This chain can be infinite but must be founded upon a Rational Foundation that acts as its First Cause (Origin) and Rational Standard (Logic), thus Reason must be the Root Cause of Motion, which can be rationally understood as God. God is traditionally defined as the Logos when “God” is referring to the God of Reason and Logic, also known in orthodox theology as “the One True God”, so to call Reason or the Logos “God” is not arbitrary or distortion of language but rather valid and helps us to make sense of the role and Reality of God in theological texts and beyond those texts in the Universe.

2. Pure Reason is the efficient rational cause of itself because it exists timelessly and rationally as a result of meeting and BEING the Rational Standard - the True First Cause that is the True God (Logical Origin). There is an infinite chain of particular (non-universal) efficient causes. These causes and logics must however be based in and coherent with the Universal Logic (Universal Cause) to be objectively coherent. The Universal Cause is the Universal Logic and the First Principle of Logic and Existence which is at once and necessarily God and Logic as the “Coherent Universal Foundation”.

3. Among beings, all are ONE and all are necessary - in and as the Absolute Truth of the Logos, entangled in and as “Full Coherence” (Superposition) at the. Everything that is possible and realized is necessarily “being” and enjoying identity and existence. This necessary “Being of all Being” is the Universal Logic (God - Logos) and the Logos coherent Universe/Reality.\n
4. We observe degrees of goodness, truth, nobility in things. Generally speaking, the “better” or more purely logical things higher in the hierarchy/scale give being and logicality (“Rational Foundation” or Logos) to things “lower” and less directly or inherently logical (godly), but the highest goodness (Agathon) must not only come from but be fully coherent and identical with the Logical Origin (God) and the Source of Knowledge (Logic) - the Universal Foundation of Reason that lacks nothing rationally. This Universal Foundation of Reason (Logos) is God or “Theos” in Greek.\n
5. Nature operates according to the Natural Order and does not act (truly) randomly without Logic, Cause and the purpose that Logos as God brings to Existence and the Natural Logical System (Nature). To have a “thing” or “things” lacking all logical interconnection, intelligence, and connection to the Logos (God) would be a logical contradiction as such “things” that lack as described cannot exist or move toward an end (evolve) that is more perfect and more coherent with Universal Logic and the Cosmos Intelligence or “Logos” which is God (Theos).\n
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