RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
July 7, 2023 at 11:09 am
(This post was last modified: July 7, 2023 at 11:10 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The universe would seem to qualify as a necessarily existent thing, a thing which cannot fail to exist. Doesn't it? Additionally, you're historical chronology is off. Abrahamism is not the earliest example of the monist set.
Is the accuracy of the historical claim demonstrative of something...and if the historical claim is inaccurate, what would that demonstrate about your personal theology? Similarly, are you committed to the accuracy of assertions we might make about a first cause even if they did not lead to your god?
If it turned out, for example, that your god really did exist, and blipped up right about the time it "revealed" itself...would you abandon that god because it was not and could not have been this hypothetical first cause? I'm not an abrahamist, so I'd have to defer to your experience here - but it seems to me like a weird thing to break up with god over?
Is the accuracy of the historical claim demonstrative of something...and if the historical claim is inaccurate, what would that demonstrate about your personal theology? Similarly, are you committed to the accuracy of assertions we might make about a first cause even if they did not lead to your god?
If it turned out, for example, that your god really did exist, and blipped up right about the time it "revealed" itself...would you abandon that god because it was not and could not have been this hypothetical first cause? I'm not an abrahamist, so I'd have to defer to your experience here - but it seems to me like a weird thing to break up with god over?
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