I can see you guys are rubbing shoulders with the cosmological argument. Two objections to it:
1) What caused the First Cause i.e. God?
2) How does it logically follow that a 'First Cause' must be:
>a divine being
>caring as opposed to apathetic after creation
>identified with none other than Jesus Christ of 'Nazareth'
It would be special pleading to justify #1 by saying the First Cause was uncaused and always was. For #2, if it somehow logically did follow that the First Cause was an intelligent being then all you have done is establish a Deist god. You would still have quite the work ahead of you to show the First Cause lives in people through some 'Holy Spirit'.
1) What caused the First Cause i.e. God?
2) How does it logically follow that a 'First Cause' must be:
>a divine being
>caring as opposed to apathetic after creation
>identified with none other than Jesus Christ of 'Nazareth'
It would be special pleading to justify #1 by saying the First Cause was uncaused and always was. For #2, if it somehow logically did follow that the First Cause was an intelligent being then all you have done is establish a Deist god. You would still have quite the work ahead of you to show the First Cause lives in people through some 'Holy Spirit'.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
