God is everlasting

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Parent debateThis argument is used in the debate Does God exist?.
Argument againstThis argument is an objection to The universe has no beginning.
Keywords: Cosmological argument, First cause, God[ edit ].

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“If the universe had a beginning, it was God who started it in one way rather than another. If the universe had no beginning, the only alternative is that it is sempiternal. In this case, God can be seen as the one who keeps it in existence at every moment, under the prevailing laws of nature. It is by His decision at each moment that it exists at this moment, and that the laws of nature in force are what they are.”

Richard Swinburne, Is there a God?, Ithaca, Paris, 2009.

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