(July 14, 2023 at 6:27 pm)Loaded dice Wrote:(July 14, 2023 at 6:23 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If reality has always existed, then both First Cause and Infinite Regress can be dispensed with.
Boru
Not really. There could be an eternal first cause, which means reality always existed since it would at least contain this first cause.
A reality which "contains" a First Cause means Reality was not created by your First Cause, (which by definition is absurd if it really is a "First Cause").
That Reality is one in which the First Cause is only the cause of everything EXCEPT Reality.
You don't get how stupid that is ?
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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