RE: The Best Logique Evidence of God Existence
July 15, 2019 at 8:02 pm
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2019 at 8:03 pm by GrandizerII.)
(July 15, 2019 at 5:12 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(July 15, 2019 at 12:44 pm)Grandizer Wrote: If God just IS existence, then that's not anywhere close to the God that most Christians believe in. I don't even think Aquinas saw God that way either.
Christians believe in God as First Cause. As has been pointed out, showing that the First Cause is also good, conscious, etc., is not part of the First Cause argument. You need additional arguments for that.
Lots of hurdles, more like it. It's been very difficult for Christians to make any semblance of a successful logical leap from a first cause that could easily be in line with naturalism to a supernatural entity that is anything like the God that they believe in. The way you've been describing a first cause, it doesn't seem clear to me at all that the First Cause argument then is an argument for some God ... or even a compelling part of an argument for God (because even many atheists can accept that such a first cause, as you describe it, is logical).
