If something comes into being, it must have been
prompted by something else. A book has an
author. Music has a music artist. A party has a
party-thrower! All things that begin, that have a
start, have a cause to their beginning.
Consider the universe. Scientists once held to the
"steady-state" theory, that the universe has
always existed without beginning.
Cosmological evidence now refers to the "Big
bang" as the point in time that the universe came
into being. Our space-time-matter-energy
universe had a distinct and singular beginning.
Since it did not always exist, but came into
existence (had a singular beginning), then some
other reality must have caused or created it.1
Everything we observe in nature has a beginning.
God however is in a different category, and must
be so. God is different from all nature and
humanity and everything that exists, in that he
has always existed, independent from anything
he created. God is not a dependent being, but
self-sufficient, self-existent. And this is exactly
how the Bible describes God, and how God has
revealed himself to be. Why must God be this
way?
Our universe cannot be explained any other way.
It could not have created itself. It has not always
existed. And it could not be created by something
that itself is created. Why not?
It isn't coherent to argue that the universe was
created by God, but God was in turn created by
God to the second power, who was in turn
created by God to the third power, and so on. As
Aristotle cogently argued, there must be a reality
that causes but is itself uncaused (or, a being that
moves but is itself unmoved). Why? Because if
there is an infinite regression of causes, then by
definition the whole process could never begin.2
Would you like more evidence for God's
existence?
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