In Hatata, Zera Yacob applied the idea of a first cause to produce a proof for the existence of God, thus proposing a cosmological argument. "If I say that my father and my mother created me, then I must search for the creator of my parents and of the parents of my parents until they arrive at the first who were not created as we [are] but who came into this world in some other way without being generated."
In Hatata, Zera Yacob applied the concept of a first cause to develop an argument for God's existence, thus proposing a cosmological argument. "If I say that my father and mother created me, then I must search for the creator of my parents and the ancestors of my ancestors until they reach the first who were not generated like us but entered this world in some other way."