Why does God exist? Most people will say he has always existed so that is an invalid question (my question).
This shows a lack of understanding of the nature of time but I'll ignore that for simplicity.
Anyways if I asked you what caused God and you say he always existed you are implying that nothing caused God, right? Is this what you believe? He exists just because he happens to exist? What is your take on it? Just curious if there are Christians with better answers than the normal...
Skeptic/Naturalist
2007-09-09 18:41:47 · 8 answers · asked by Someone 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Nick W: Does it really? If you can believe an acausual God exists, with all his complexities and asymmetrical properties, I find it easier to believe a universe could be acausual. That isn't to say I think the universe was necessarily acausual but even if I did I find that more likely than God.
2007-09-09 18:50:57 · update #1
Common Sense: Fine, lets assume God has always existed and that explains why he exists. So by that same logic I could say a Machine that cranks out universes has always existed and that is why it exists. That doesn't answer the question of what caused God. I'm not going to get into the time thing because people are going to ignore the main question at hand.
2007-09-09 18:55:48 · update #2
George: I agree that time isn't linear or "a flowing river" and I understand what you mean by God always existed. If he does exist I could understand that. The problem is it doesn't explain why he existed, there could be a machine that pumps out universes that existed forever. It doesn't say what caused it...it just implies that God is acausual.
2007-09-09 18:57:55 · update #3
Astucias: There is a common thing going around that time is just a human invention. In a sense it is, and in a sense it isn't. The flowing river of time is a human invention. However that have been experiements and observations to show that "time" is a mathematical reality in nature. If you want to check it out go search Special Relativity/General Relativity. You may not be convinced but just know this stuff about time isn't coming from no where.
2007-09-09 19:00:39 · update #4
mr.glass: I didn't really say anything has a cause and effect, that may or may not be true. All I'm saying is that if you say God doesn't need a cause then why can't there be a universe without a cause or a chunk of metal without a cause? If you say God doesn't need a cause then he becomes nothing but an assumption.
2007-09-09 19:05:48 · update #5
Balder dash is proof god ....May Zeus strike down all believers with his thunder bolts of lightening .
2007-09-09 19:26:02 · answer #1 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By asking this question you have just proved that this question has an answer of God. Your supposition is that everything has a cause and effect. This means that there had to be a cause without a cause causing it, in other words a first cause. What could work outside the bounds of cause in effect but something separate from the universe where cause and effect is law. God is the only thing that fits those characteristics so the first cause who is of course acausual.
You are supposing a cause and effect universe by the question. If there is no need for cause and effect then it would not matter if something did not have a cause.
2007-09-10 02:00:51 · answer #2 · answered by mrglass08 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you could think of a life without time as we know it, you wouldn`t have a hard time trying to understand the "God problem". How can God have always existed, and will always exist ? That seems only to be a problem if you are thinking on a linear time line. Time is but not only linear, and there may lies the answer. I hope it helps you.
2007-09-10 01:51:20 · answer #3 · answered by George 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Both Webster and I can't figure out what "acausual" is.
I believe that God has always existed, and that He will always exist.
"shows a lack of understanding of the nature of time"? Oh, master of the mysteries of the universe, PLEASE enlighten us on the true meaning of time! PLEASE don't "ignore that for simplicity"!
"just because he happens to exist?" No. He exists because He does.
"if there are Christians with better answers than the normal"? What is your question? If you hear the same response time and time and time and time again, why do you think that asking once more will give you a different answer?
2007-09-10 01:49:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
To look at a belief of the beginning of existence, one must look for something outside of one's own realm of existence. To say that God always was takes a lot less faith than it does to say that a piece of matter that held the contents of the known world always existed.
2007-09-10 01:48:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Time is a misconception, You can't spend time, time doesn't fly, you can't buy time, time doesn't drag, how can one waste time, time doesn't exist anymore then God then does it?
2007-09-10 01:53:50 · answer #6 · answered by Commandant Marcos 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For me it's the miracles, the epiphanies, the synchronisities, the e.s.p. stuff that happens in my life.
2007-09-10 01:50:47 · answer #7 · answered by my ki 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You may have lost many of them at "acausal".
2007-09-10 01:47:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋