RE: Christians, what is your VERY BEST arguments for the existence of God?
January 29, 2010 at 8:50 am
You could say the same thing about the universe itself. If I'm understanding you correctly, you are saying that the laws of our universe (that effects have a cause) do not apply to God, since he does not have to inhabit our universe.
There are a couple of problems with this. Namely, that cause and effect is only true of the atomic world, not the subatomic quantum world, and that the universe itself, in the singularity at the moment of the Big Bang, was not itself in our "universe" (since it doesn't inhabit itself anymore than God might).
To elaborate, if you can argue that God doesn't exist a universe of cause and effect, and thereby has no cause, you can argue that the universe itself does not exist in a "universe" of cause and effect. Internally, the universe has cause and effect, but you cannot say this of whatever plane of existence the universe itself sits on (if it does sit on one). It could be that the nature of the place that the universe resides in is one where universes simply spring into being.
There are a couple of problems with this. Namely, that cause and effect is only true of the atomic world, not the subatomic quantum world, and that the universe itself, in the singularity at the moment of the Big Bang, was not itself in our "universe" (since it doesn't inhabit itself anymore than God might).
To elaborate, if you can argue that God doesn't exist a universe of cause and effect, and thereby has no cause, you can argue that the universe itself does not exist in a "universe" of cause and effect. Internally, the universe has cause and effect, but you cannot say this of whatever plane of existence the universe itself sits on (if it does sit on one). It could be that the nature of the place that the universe resides in is one where universes simply spring into being.
