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(September 2, 2014 at 7:51 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:
One of the most commonly used arguments for establishing the existence of God, as many of you know, states:
1. Anything that has a beginning has a cause.
2. The Universe had a beginning.
3. The Universe had a cause.
A glaring peculiarity stands out, however, when philosophers such as William Lane Craig peddle this line of reasoning in one breath and yet affirm the existence of indeterminate free will in another.
Are human actions free or determined? Many will reply 'free,' which is to basically proclaim that some events do indeed have a beginning and lack a cause. Well then, on what leg does the Cosmological argument stand? Which is it?
Does anyone else find an inconsistency here or am I missing something?
Is this the point in which the soul is injected as the Unmoved Mover? Does this still not require indeterminate, spontaneous generation of action, and if not, what causal relation does "soul" have to said action?
If we simply say, "It's a mystery," then what good is intellectualism? The furthest it can possibly attain amounts to far greater fuzziness than that of perceptual reality which it so fervently claims to disdain?
The cosmological argument is defining 'the universe' as time, space and matter. The material world doesn't have free will.
Furthermore, free will isn't relevant to an explanation of 'origin' it is relevant to state of being. I may have free will, I may not, but I certainly didn't have it when I was caused into existence.
If it could be proven beyond doubt that God exists... and that He is the one spoken of in the Bible... would you repent of your sins and place your faith in Jesus Christ?
