which is its necessary consequence and effect. This is self-evident and agreed upon by all rational people.

That being so, the entire world cannot be necessary in itself. Were it so, nothing that exists would be temporally originated, since whatever is temporally originated was previously nonexistent and requires an originator to bring it into existence, let alone being necessary in itself.

It is therefore established that something in the world is not necessary in itself. Whatever is necessary through another must have a complete cause that necessarily entails its effect. Nothing entailed or produced by a complete necessitating cause can come after that cause. Thus, temporally originated events cannot proceed from a complete necessitating cause, just as they cannot be necessary in themselves. If they are neither necessary in themselves nor produced by a necessitating cause, they must have an agent that does not necessitate its effect by its very essence.

If their ultimate claim is that the world proceeds from a cause that necessitates its effect by its very essence, either without an intermediary or through intermediaries necessarily entailed by that cause, then, on this supposition, temporally originated events cannot originate from it. If temporally originated events have no agent other than it, they would otherwise have to originate without an originator. This is self-evidently untenable.

It thus becomes clear that temporally originated events have an originator that does not necessarily entail its effect and consequence. Hence, the originator of temporally originated events cannot be a cause that necessarily entails its effect, or anything among