RE: The Cosmological Argument and Free Will
September 8, 2014 at 7:46 pm
(This post was last modified: September 8, 2014 at 7:50 pm by Madness20.)
(September 8, 2014 at 5:59 pm)suneel Wrote: You say that
1. Anything that has a beginning has a cause.
2. The Universe had a beginning.
3. The Universe had a cause.
Well then what caused god?
The argument in itself has nothing to do with god, it just states that the universe has a cause by "logical" arguments.
But on your question "what caused god?" , it's actually not a good question, as "god" defined by the majority is the eternal being of the universe, was not caused and did not have a begin.
On the topic, I believe that the cosmological argument is sustaining in determinism, and in the idea of cause effect, which in itself is contraditory with free-will, as determinism in general believes everything is "determined".
