fordking✝️❤️ :
Everything on earth has a physical cause and a material cause. The physical cause is how it came to be, meanwhile the material is what it is made out of, a tree, material cause is the bark, leaves, branches, and roots, while the physical cause is the growth through photosynthesis, coming from a seed. This applies to any thing in the universe, a banna, a human, a toy. Even though we know the material cause of the universe, many like to say the physical universe is the big bang, which I am fine with, but again, the bigbang must have its own creator in the sense, this is god. Now you may ask, who created god? Yet this question only makes sense if God is the kind of thing that needs a cause. Everything within the universe has a physical and material cause because it is contingent: it depends on something else for its existence. But the argument for God here is that the chain of physical causes cannot regress infinitely; there must be a first cause that is not itself caused, otherwise nothing would ever begin. God, by definition in this framework, is not a material object within the universe but the necessary, uncaused cause that explains why anything exists at all. Asking who created God is like asking what temperature blue is. It treats God as a physical object rather than the foundational explanation for physical objects.
Christians say, “God always was and always will be.” Meaning God has existed forever, before the universe. Something must be forever and always, because there has to be an end to the chain of creation, a first thing, without a creator. Many say this can not be possible, that the universe can exist forever and always but if the universe had existed forever, BUT that would mean the past contains an infinite number of events.But an actual infinite cannot be crossed. Think of it like this,if the universe had no beginning, then an infinite number of moments would have had to pass before we reached today. But you cannot “traverse” an infinite sequence one step at a time.Therefore, we could never arrive at the present moment.
This is the classic Kalam Cosmological Argument move:
You cannot complete an infinite countdown. But there has to be a beginnin
2026-03-09 04:09:14