In the debate of whether or not God exists God is stated, according to the Cosmological Argument, as the first uncaused cause. Part of the reason for this argument is the idea that infinite regression is impossible in many people's minds.
However if God has always existed then you are arguing at a point in infinite God simply decided he was finally bored enough to create reality. The beginning of existence period apparently has always been here because God has always been here. The problem with making this argument is it actually makes the idea of matter always existing seem even more valid. If God always existed without beginning, always had his qualities inherent to his nature, etc then why is he the only thing that could do that?
Besides pure speculation I, so far, have never seen anyone able to prove why God has this idea exclusively. As far as the idea of cause and effect we are speaking about a time before the universe supposedly existed. If that is the case then the laws that are INSIDE of our universe may not have existed either. If that is true then perhaps the idea of cause and effect is even thrown out. Before I get attacked for that remember that Christian's argue that God isn't under the constraints of cause and effect and is therefore uncaused.
However if we are speaking pre-universe then if there was matter/energy outside of our universe's existence and therefore outside of our laws the matter/energy doesn't have to play by the rules either. All of this ends up turning into mental masturbation though because it has yet to be proven there is ANYTHING outside of our universe anyway. The biblical text does not provide the Christian with anything to point to in order to explain this issue. I have so far heard most often that God always existed because, well he just did. That is not a sufficient answer and you can also, unknown to William Lane Craig, not simply philosophize something into existence because you really want it to be true.
However if God has always existed then you are arguing at a point in infinite God simply decided he was finally bored enough to create reality. The beginning of existence period apparently has always been here because God has always been here. The problem with making this argument is it actually makes the idea of matter always existing seem even more valid. If God always existed without beginning, always had his qualities inherent to his nature, etc then why is he the only thing that could do that?
Besides pure speculation I, so far, have never seen anyone able to prove why God has this idea exclusively. As far as the idea of cause and effect we are speaking about a time before the universe supposedly existed. If that is the case then the laws that are INSIDE of our universe may not have existed either. If that is true then perhaps the idea of cause and effect is even thrown out. Before I get attacked for that remember that Christian's argue that God isn't under the constraints of cause and effect and is therefore uncaused.
However if we are speaking pre-universe then if there was matter/energy outside of our universe's existence and therefore outside of our laws the matter/energy doesn't have to play by the rules either. All of this ends up turning into mental masturbation though because it has yet to be proven there is ANYTHING outside of our universe anyway. The biblical text does not provide the Christian with anything to point to in order to explain this issue. I have so far heard most often that God always existed because, well he just did. That is not a sufficient answer and you can also, unknown to William Lane Craig, not simply philosophize something into existence because you really want it to be true.
