(February 25, 2015 at 9:16 am)ChadWooters Wrote: The universe cannot be a first (or more accurately primary) cause since it is already a particular contingent thing that changes. By way of contrast, the first cause must be non-contingent and unchanging.I do not understand how a cause can be said to be unchanging when there is a before and after to its previous state of ineffectual rest and subsequent causal action.
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