If the catholics believe that "god" is just there without a creator, then why can't the universe just be there

Answer 1

The universe is.
God hasn't shown up personally yet.

Answer 2

Catholics believe that there is God and a Creator and they are one.God created the world, thats a fundamental belief of Catholics. The universe evolved and moves in an ordered way, which is becoming apparent as scientific knowledge
advances. The presence of order in the universe implies that
there is a creator who is God.

Answer 3

Catholics, Protestants, and all smart human beings know of something called "First Cause".

I explained it once, and I am going to do it again. PLEASE READ IT.

Nothing just is without a reason why it is. Everything that is has some adequate or sufficient reason why it is. This is called "Principle of Sufficient Reason".

We use it every day, in common sense and in science as well as in philosophy and theology. If we saw a squirrel suddenly appear on an empty table, we would not blandly say, "Hi, squirrel. You came from nowhere, didn't you?" No, we would look for a cause, assuming there has to be one. Did the squirrel fall from the ceiling? Did someone put it there when we weren't looking? If there seems to be no physical cause, we look for a psychological cause: perhaps someone hypnotized us. As a last resort, we look for a supernatural cause, a miracle. But there must be some cause. We never deny the Principle of Sufficient Reason itself. No one believes the Pop Theory: that things just pop into existence for no reason at all.

Now the whole universe is a vast, interlocking chain of things that come into existence. Each of these things must therefore have a cause. My parents caused me, my grandparents caused them, et cetera. But it is not that simple. You and I would not be here without billions of causes.

But does the universe as a whole have a cause? Is there a first cause, an uncaused cause, a transcendent cause of the whole chain of causes? If not, then there is an infinite regress of causes, with no first link in the great cosmic chain. If so, then there is an eternal, necessary, independent, self-explanatory being with nothing above it, before it, or supporting it. It would have to explain itself as well as everything else, for if it needed something else as its explanation, its reason, its cause, then it would not be the first and uncaused cause. Such a being would have to be God, of course. If we can prove there is such a first cause, we will have proved there is a God.

Why must there be a first cause? Because if there isn't, then the whole universe is unexplained, and we have violated our Principle of Sufficient Reason for everything. If there is no first cause, each particular thing in the universe is explained in the short run, or proximately, by some other thing, but nothing is explained in the long run, or ultimately, and the universe as a whole is not explained. Everyone and everything says in turn, "Don't look to me for the final explanation. I'm just an instrument. Something else caused me." If that's all there is, then we have an endless passing of the buck. God is the one who says, "The buck stops here."

If there is no first cause, then the universe is like a great chain with many links; each link is held up by the link above it, but the whole chain is held up by nothing. If there is no first cause, then the universe is like a railroad train moving without an engine. Each car's motion is explained proximately by the motion of the car in front of it: the caboose moves because the boxcar pulls it, the boxcar moves because the cattle car pulls it, et cetera. But there is no engine to pull the first car and the whole train. That would be impossible, of course. But that is what the universe is like if there is no first cause: impossible.

St. Thomas Aquinas said best; "There must also be a first cause of perfection or goodness or value. We rank things as more or less perfect or good or valuable. Unless this ranking is false and meaningless, unless souls don't really have any more perfection than slugs, there must be a real standard of perfection to make such a hierarchy possible, for a thing is ranked higher on the hierarchy of perfection only insofar as it is closer to the standard, the ideal, the most perfect. Unless there is a most-perfect being to be that real standard of perfection, all our value judgments are meaningless and impossible. Such a most-perfect being, or real ideal standard of perfection, is another description of God.

Answer 4

Some people say "why are you so worried about....? referring to your question simply because you ask a question. But that is just their way of disguising their own stupidism. Of course they cannot answer the question without exposing themselves as lacking knowledge..In Psychology I think it's called "Projection" or something like that when they try to ridicule someone to hide their own shortcomings.

The Universe is there and always was there and always will be there unlike the God that Man created. You may alreadu know that many Gods have died out when knowledg came ..like the God of Thunder...God of Sun...God of Water and so oin..Because in the beginning Man created God...and Catholics have never gotten over the errors of their ways. After all when you espouse to a myth for so many thousands of years it's preety hjard to admit you were qwrong..That's why it takes the world so long to wake up from their shackles of the Religionists.

Answer 5

If God is there without a creator then the universe couldn't be because God created everything else.

Answer 6

If God had no creator, why must it not be possible that the universe had no creator? I like that very much, and I must say I completely agree. Both are complex, and only one is said to have a creator. So why isn't it possible the universe is infinite?

Answer 7

I'm not catholic and not christian, but still will answer your question.

Please read my words carefully:
If you see footmark in the sand, you'll say that someone passed from here...
If you see a piece of dog sh*t on the ground, you'll say that a dog passed from here...
So what about the enormous universe, the sky, stars, planets, earth and all the beauty in it, doesn't it lead to that someone made it?!!!

Some people say that everything is created by itself after the big-bang... I won't ask you about what caused the big-bang, but I'll ask you a simple question:
If you take all the letters of the alphabet, multiples of them, and you threw them randomly on the floor. Do you expect (by a chance of one in infinity) to get a poem like shakespear's??!!

Can't you see how organized our universe is, the planets, the eco-system on earth, look even in your own body... Can you control your heart-beat? Can you control your breath while you're sleeping? Who stopped your eye-lashes from growing after reaching a certain length? Who told the baby turtles to move towards the sea and not to the earth after they come out of their eggs? Who taught the bird how to make nests?

My friend, think with your heart and brain. If you're still lost, think about the following:

Do you know how to play safe?
Non-believer's case:
If there's no God and you do all what you want in life, then nothing will happen to you after life. But if there was God and you were mistaken, then you'll blame yourself FOREVER...

Believer's case:
If there's God and I followed His commands in life, then I'll be in Heaven after life FOREVER. But if there was no God and we're mistaken, then nothing bad will happen to us after life...

Now you know how to play-safe, in case you're not convinced?

Answer 8

God was created by Biggod. The Catholics and the Baptists and the etc, they all deny the power and glory of Biggod. Woe unto them.

Answer 9

Many people who are spiritual but not religious still throw a "god" in there anyway. And many moderate Christians (people who are afraid of the word agnostic) view "god" as the universe, etc.

But essentially, "god" is just inserting a middle-man where one is not needed. However, many people are simply too conditioned to believe in a god, and the consequences of not believing in said god, to admit it to themselves.

Answer 10

all Christians, not just Catholics, believe that God was the Beginning.

Answer 11

because God created the universe