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Therefore since we must admit the existence of law, the existence of a lawmaker is a necessary logical sequence: that lawmaker, is God.
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Orange Jacobs
Republican · Washington

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Jacobs concludes that the existence of law necessitates the existence of God as its lawmaker.

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