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The first premise of the Kalam Cosmological Argument says that whatever begins to exist has a cause of its existence. Why is God not bound by this premise?
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I have been puzzling over this since I was a small boy. There must be a beginning and end to everything, so the human mind thinks. So if God created everything, there must be a beginning and an end to God. Not so, God is eternal, infinite, there is no beginning and end to Him. Difficult for the human mind to comprehend. Because God is infinite and on a different time scale He is not bound by premise one – whatever begins to exist has a cause of its existence, because He has always been ( I am) and was not created by anything else.
He created the universe according to the bible. Makes sense to me. Perhaps all the theory about Big Bang is correct and God made the Big Band happen by creating the energy and material for it to happen. Therefore he created the universe. Fits premise two – the cosmos began to exist, therefore, the universe has a cause for its existence.
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The Kalam Cosmological Argument claims that anything that starts to exist has a reason for its existence. This doesn’t apply to God since God is outside the constraints of time, everlasting, and without cause.<div>
</div><div>In the realm of theistic philosophy, God is frequently imagined to exist beyond the confines of time and space. He is viewed as the ultimate origin and upholder of everything that exists. Consequently, God does not experience the same restrictions imposed by time as beings or entities that come into existence within a temporal framework.</div><div>
</div><div>The Kalam Cosmological Argument pertains to beings in the temporal realm. However, it acknowledges that God exists beyond this framework and is not dependent on a cause for His existence. Instead, God is seen as the necessary and uncaused source of everything, including the universe’s existence.</div>As for a biblical reference, when Jesus says He’ll be coming back again soon he’s referencing his time.
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God is GOD. He has no boundaries and no limits. We were not meant to understand everything and we have to accept that somethings will be a mystery.
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He did not begin to exist. God’s qualities are infinite and self-existent, so He had no beginning.
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God never began to exist, He has always been. I know this is a difficult concept to grasp as everything we know to be “real” has a beginning and end. We must consider that the being that causes the creation and beginning of time and space, has to exist outside of that parameter.
