I am an Agnostic Theist, which I believe means that I am unsure about the existence, or non-existence of a God. I was raised going to church through grade school, middle school, and high-school, but I was a smart kid and started thinking more independently. I have lately been thinking about 'creation', as well as Christian and Atheist creation arguments.
Atheists bring up the argument of the Big Bang, and how everything created, including time, space, the third dimension, and the law of cause and effect. But it brings up the question of what 'caused' the Big Bang? Upon further thinking, I thought that before the universe, and before the law of cause and effect, the Big Bang didn't have to have a cause, which ties in with the Christian arguments.
Christians claim that God made everything, and it assumes that God could have been the cause of the Big Bang. If God was before the law of cause and effect, then it makes perfect sense that a God could have been the cause of the Big Bang. But...
Because the Big Bang didn't have to have a cause, literally NOTHING could have been the cause of the universe. Just the POSSIBILITY of the universe being able to exist, made it exist.
So this leaves me in an awkward state of mind.
There has to be a God, because something had to create the universe.
or
There doesn't have to be a God, because NOTHING could have created the universe!
I just wanted some input, because maybe there is something that I am missing from this whole idea. If you could please let me know your thoughts, it would be greatly appreciated.
Atheists bring up the argument of the Big Bang, and how everything created, including time, space, the third dimension, and the law of cause and effect. But it brings up the question of what 'caused' the Big Bang? Upon further thinking, I thought that before the universe, and before the law of cause and effect, the Big Bang didn't have to have a cause, which ties in with the Christian arguments.
Christians claim that God made everything, and it assumes that God could have been the cause of the Big Bang. If God was before the law of cause and effect, then it makes perfect sense that a God could have been the cause of the Big Bang. But...
Because the Big Bang didn't have to have a cause, literally NOTHING could have been the cause of the universe. Just the POSSIBILITY of the universe being able to exist, made it exist.
So this leaves me in an awkward state of mind.
There has to be a God, because something had to create the universe.
or
There doesn't have to be a God, because NOTHING could have created the universe!
I just wanted some input, because maybe there is something that I am missing from this whole idea. If you could please let me know your thoughts, it would be greatly appreciated.
