(July 10, 2024 at 2:44 pm)SaintPeter Wrote: Now, the Kalam is well known: (1) What begins to exist has a cause. (2) But, the Universe began to exist. (3) Thus, there exists a Cause of the Universe that existed outside time and space before the Universe came to being. (4) Next, we can deduce even further Properties of this First Cause, namely that it is (1) Almighty or Omnipotent, because only an Almighty Power can create something out of nothing, let alone whole universes out of nothing. (2) Eternal and Transcendent, i.e. existing outside time and space. And that will do for now.
Note that the properties we deduce are completely in accord with what the Lord Jehovah, the One True God, revealed to the Patriarch Abraham, the founding father of monotheism. They thus answer your second point and show we can in fact exclude various polytheistic false gods from being the True Creator God that the Kalam proves.
Kalam is a logical mess, with more fallacies than premises. Truly interesting things happen when you try to make the leap from a god to the Abrahamic god. Any honest evaluation of the evidence suggests that there's no connection. Every living creature is born into a universe where it's necessary to kill in order to live. That might fit a malevolent god but militates against any benevolent deity.
