God: The First Initiator Through the Cosmos and Philisophically

Cosmological means "world", but also can mean order. These arguments spring from the beginning of the world to a principle, being, or a reason. Why is there something instead of nothing? We all know that nothing from nothing leads to nothing, not something.

Just by living life, we can see that things are always changing. And, being human, we seek a reason for these changes. To quote Sproul, Gerstner and Lindsley, "If something exists now, sowething exists necessarily:  if anything is, something must have the power of being within itself."

The Law of Causality: Everything is caused by something other than itself.
God is not finite. Time is not finite, nothing connected to time could be included in the construction of the universe. If self-existence is possible, as with God, not everything has to have a cause.....................BUT
1. Whatever begins to exist must have a cause.
2. The universe began to exist.
3. The universe has a cause.

If the universe exists, there are four possibilities:
1. The universe is an illusion.
2. The universe is self created........ violating logic. Because the universe would have power over itself before it was created. This breaks the law of non-contradiction.
3. Self-Existent/Eternal: If whatever starts to exist has a cause, what evidence is there to support the fact that the universe began to exist??

Some of these thoughts are confusing to say the least. Bigger brains than mine came up with them. And once again, I thank Tim Imler for his teaching.
1. We know the universe is NOT an illusion, I hope. What DO you know about the universe.


2. Do you find it more reassuring or less that a loving God created this world for us, and why?


3. Christians aren't a bunch of flakey people. We have evidence for our beliefs, as well as our faith.
We aren't weak, leaning on our God as a crutch. In fact, being a real Christian for many around the world means sticking his/her neck out. For the Christian reader........... What can you do TODAY, to show God's love???????????

The Logic of God's Existence From Geisler and Brooks

1. Some things exist with out question.
2. My nonexistence is possible.
3. Whatever has the possibility not to exist is currently caused to exist by another.
4. There cannot be an infinite regress of current causes of existence.
5. Therefore, a first uncaused cause of my current existence exists.
6. This cause mus be infinite, unchanging, all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-perfect.
7. This infinitely perfect being is appropriately called "God".
8. Therefore God exists.
9. This God who exists is identical to the God described in the Christian Scriptures.
10. Therefore, the God described in the Bible exists.