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as an abbreviation of the word Christos

fairly recently

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Saint Patrick

I will proclaim the decree of the LORD

Contingency Argument pelican as an abbreviation of theSt. Thomas Aquinas structured the argument, following Aristotles formulation that there must be something to explain why the universe exists. Since the universe could, conceivably not have existed and therefore be contingent, its existence must have a cause that exists by its own necessity. St. Thomas Aquinas observed that, in nature, there were things that existed in a contingent way, since it would be possible for such things not to exist, and that