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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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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?
The first premise is: Whatever begins to exist has a cause of its existence. In other words, if anything exists there has to be an explanation as to why it began to exist. So if I understand this first premise correctly, the implication is that God had some sort of beginning. That contradicts our Christian faith which teaches that God had no beginning; He is eternal. In addition, He does not need a cause for His existence.
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God is eternal and not bound by the laws of time. I would also posit that he is an exception to any natural law because he is the one who created them all, as paradoxical as it might seem to us as humans.
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God is not bound by the premise that whatever begins to exist has a cause of its existence because God is a beginningless being. He is eternal. He is not the same as what has been created.
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God isn’t bound because he is eternal. He is not bound by infinite nor our comprehension of his Being. I thought it profound when Dr. Groothius quoted 1 John and how in the beginning God was the Word…this is a great tie in to our defined creation began here.
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Because God is an eternal being. He does not have a beginning. He is beyond a created being, like us.
