You ask good questions.
One problem with infinite effects is that by definition a chain of effects is an effect, and hence, even the infinite chain of effects asking for a cause.
And to make you realize, every single effect is saying it's not going to exist unless another cause effects it.
God is the living, he is the definition of life and existence by which all things get hues of existence from, there is no need of anything outside of himself causing him to exist, because he is eternal.
Now some people understanding the infinite chain problem and say well the first cause never came to be, always was, then changed to the universe. There is many problems with this. And I have shown it in the past.
1st if we go backwards, surely for it have changed to now, it would the first point of time. And if spans eternity (infinite absolute past and future), it makes no sense, it would become limited and finite but rather the first point of time like all points of time is a state of change in the universe. The first change like all others changes needs a cause.
In short the first moment of time didn't always exist. It came to be. The question is what caused it.
Both no first moment in time and first moment of time is eternal are both irrational.
Something beyond this universe and it's constant flux of change caused it.
And among the reasons no first moment of time makes no sense, is because you always have to go back to a point with time from a time, but you are saying there is no point to go back to.
God is not subject to time, but he constantly does create the present. Nothing but God and the present exists, past is gone, future is ahead.
Another way to look at this is if anything could cause an infinite chains of effects with no beginning and end, it's God. God cannot create past, present, and future all at the same time with no beginning and no end. Neither can he make it that the present is linked to an endless past set of events.
These are both impossible for God. There is first moment in time. Change doesn't go infinitely back.
Every effect is also saying, I won't come to be unless the effect next to me say I Will come to be, and so with this condition, none of them can come to be except if there is something that is, without that requirement.
That is the eternal life, the source of all things.
One problem with infinite effects is that by definition a chain of effects is an effect, and hence, even the infinite chain of effects asking for a cause.
And to make you realize, every single effect is saying it's not going to exist unless another cause effects it.
God is the living, he is the definition of life and existence by which all things get hues of existence from, there is no need of anything outside of himself causing him to exist, because he is eternal.
Now some people understanding the infinite chain problem and say well the first cause never came to be, always was, then changed to the universe. There is many problems with this. And I have shown it in the past.
1st if we go backwards, surely for it have changed to now, it would the first point of time. And if spans eternity (infinite absolute past and future), it makes no sense, it would become limited and finite but rather the first point of time like all points of time is a state of change in the universe. The first change like all others changes needs a cause.
In short the first moment of time didn't always exist. It came to be. The question is what caused it.
Both no first moment in time and first moment of time is eternal are both irrational.
Something beyond this universe and it's constant flux of change caused it.
And among the reasons no first moment of time makes no sense, is because you always have to go back to a point with time from a time, but you are saying there is no point to go back to.
God is not subject to time, but he constantly does create the present. Nothing but God and the present exists, past is gone, future is ahead.
Another way to look at this is if anything could cause an infinite chains of effects with no beginning and end, it's God. God cannot create past, present, and future all at the same time with no beginning and no end. Neither can he make it that the present is linked to an endless past set of events.
These are both impossible for God. There is first moment in time. Change doesn't go infinitely back.
Every effect is also saying, I won't come to be unless the effect next to me say I Will come to be, and so with this condition, none of them can come to be except if there is something that is, without that requirement.
That is the eternal life, the source of all things.
