quote: Originally Posted by A. Robustus:3. If everything has a cause, what caused God?
Hi Robust,
If God had a "cause" then, He would not be God, but only a link in the causal chain. For all things there must be one cause which started it all. That cause is God -- for He was not caused, but has always existed. No matter how far we go back, there has to be that initial cause. And, that initial cause IS GOD.
This is also why scientist are stumped in trying to explain our origin. Some throw out the Big Bang. But, for the Big Bang to work -- there had to be some minute object hanging in space to explode. What caused that minute object? What caused the space in which it hung? Can you see that both would only be links in the causal chain? They had to have a cause. And since science cannot provide the initial cause -- we must assume it to be God.
The same applies to Darwinian Evolution. The followers of this theory tell us that a simple lifeless cell was floating in a primordial swamp -- and then somehow that lifeless cell was given life and eventually became today's scientists. But, once again -- what caused the primordial swamp? And, what caused that simple cell? These, too, are merely links in the causal chain. What or who was the initial cause which was not caused by any other source. Science cannot tell us. So, what is wrong with believing that initial cause to be God?
Can you see, Robust, that no matter how we walk around the block -- we always come back to the same point: God is that initial cause which had no cause, because He is preexisting outside our universe.
God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,
Bill
