In this topic, I will be talking about the first cause argument, why I believe it to be God and go over a few objections that I have talked about in my previous discussions.
For the sake of this topic, lets assume it is totally 100% proven that the Universe had a finite beginning. Just what caused it? Did it come out of nothing? Did something natural cause it? If you are on the side of logic, you will know that only nothing comes from nothing. Everything does not come from nothing. If you say that it had a natural explanation, then a naturally explanation seems to sound more supernatural than just simply saying God did it. And no, this is not a god of the gaps. I believe that God IS the best explanation for the first cause of the Universe. In order for a being to bring the Universe into existence, it would need to be outside of that which it is creating. Meaning it would be transcendent of time, space and matter. This "being" would thus not be made up of matter, not subjected to time (eternal) and omnipresent due to the fact that it is not made up of matter and has no space. What does this sound like to you? It sounds like what the Theist calls God. This is why I believe it to be God.
Objection: If everything that begins to exist, has a cause. Then wouldn't God need a cause?
Response: Remember the premises of the Kalam Cosmological argument. Everything that BEGINS to exist, must have a cause. God did not begin to exist, He is eternal.
Objection: Then how come God can be eternal and not the Universe?
Response: Because God is not made up of matter or subjected to time and space. There are many problems with an infinite universe which all have to do with time, matter and space. All of them would need to come into existence at once, and none of them can be infinite. But aside from that, the second law of thermodynamics states that things will decay go head towards choas in the Universe. This, is one problem with an infinite universe. God, not being subjected to any of this would have no problem existing forever.
It seems to me that God is the best explanation for the cause of the Universe. I do not speak of any specific god, even though I am Christian and I did mention Theism in this blog. I was just showing why a Theistic or Deistic God might be the god who caused the Universe. Aside from my faith and personal experience with what I believe to be the true god, the verse below is why I believe it to specifically be the Judeo-Christian God.
"In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth" - Genesis 1:1
This is quite an interesting verse. Already, the first verse in the Bible declares truth. That being that the Universe had a beginning. Whoever wrote this part of Genesis, knew it did and declared that GOD did it.
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When on high the heaven had not been named,
ReplyDeleteFirm ground below had not been called by name,
When primordial Apsu, their begetter,
And Mummu-Tiamat, she who bore them all,
Their waters mingled as a single body,
No reed hut had sprung forth, no marshland had appeared,
None of the gods had been brought into being,
And none bore a name, and no destinies determined--
Then it was that the gods were formed in the midst of heaven.
Lahmu and Lahamu were brought forth, by name they were called. (10)
why should we accept your a priori argument?
ReplyDelete"lets assume it is totally 100% proven that the Universe had a finite beginning"
this is asinine
let's assume the world was made by an invisible pink unicorn. let's assume that the universe is two seconds old and was created by my scratching my nether bits, lets assume elvis is the messiah, let's assume that care bears are rel.
i'll play let's pretend all day, but you call yourself an apologist, so let's see it...how can you have causality without time?
The reason why I said lets assume was for the sake of the argument, Jacob. We can talk about that. Because science is pointing towards our universe having a cause some finite amount of time ago.
ReplyDeleteBut you asked a fair question. "How can you have causality without time?"
I argue that time began at this cause. Tell me, why does there need to be time in order to cause something? Now of course, we need time, with in our own universe to cause things. But what about outside? Does there need to be time in order to cause something? I don't think so.