God is the first cause of the universe

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Keywords: cosmological argument, first cause, God, proof of God's existence[ edit ].

Summary

Looking at the universe, we see that every object has a cause, which in turn has a cause, and so, going up the chain of causes, we necessarily arrive at a first cause. God is this first cause.

Quotes

“Nothing comes from nothing. Now, there is something; therefore, there has never been anything. This something could not have brought itself into existence, because to do so it would have had to exist before it, which is impossible. Therefore, something else had to bring it into existence. This something else is what Aristotle calls the incausal cause and the immobile motor. Aquinas concludes his proofs of God's existence by saying that it is this being that all men call God.”

E. Michael Jones, Logos Rising, p.13.

References

• Frédéric Guillaud, Dieu existe, Éditions du Cerf, Paris, 2013.

Justifications

• There should be nothing
• There cannot be an infinite number of causes
• There cannot be an infinite past
• The Big Bang, an absolute singularity, implies the existence of God
• God is the cause of the existence of beings
• Everything that exists has a reason to exist
• Atheism posits a primordial energy whose origin it can never explain.

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Objections

• The principle of causality does not apply to the universe
• The universe has no cause or reason for being
• The universe was created from nothing
• The universe has no beginning
• The universe is contingent
• The first cause is the Big Bang
• The first cause is an immaterial point
• Everything has a cause, and God in particular
• There's no reason why God should be the first cause.
• The first cause is unknowable
• God is a filler concept

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Parent debate

• Does God exist?