Questioning The Cosmological Theory.?

Question

Hello, in school today we had a discussion about Thomas Aquinas' Cosmological theory.
When shortened, the theory basically states that ''Everything must have a cause. Nothing comes from nothing'' following on from this famous quote, he believes that if everything has to have a cause, then something must of caused the universe to be created. He believed God or ''the first cause'' must have created it. Read more about the Cosmological Theory here:
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/theism/cosmological.html
There are many visible flaws in this theory and over hundreds of years, people developed thorough arguments to the theory. I also have my views about this theory and I must say I am very skeptical about it.
I was thinking to myself, if God was the creator of everything, if there was nothing that existed before God, then why did he choose to 'cause' Satan to exist? I have never read the bible, so forgive my lack of knowledge about the origin of Satan.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Cosmology is an engaging subject, isn't it. But almost no one pays attention to it anymore.
Existence has no cause. Why? Because the axiom "existence exists" means NECESSARILY that it could not have come from nothing, a theory called "ex nihilo."
"The fundamental error in all [questions of where did the universe come from] is the failure to grasp that [italics] existence is a self-sufficient primary.[italics] It is not a product of a supernatural dimension, or of anything else. There is nothing antecedent to existence, nothing apart from it--[italics] and no alternative to it.[italics] Existence exists--and only existence exists. Its existence and its nature are irreducible and unalterable."

Answer 2

To answer your question about Satan - : according to the Bible, Satan was created an angel, and a greatly superior angel.

However, of his own free will he turned against God and made battle against him in Heaven, being defeated by the archangel Michael.

So God didn't create an evil being - he made a good one and gave it free will so it could make its own decisions.

Sometimes in the Bible Satan doesn't even seem particularly evil - he appears to be working with or even for God, such as in the Book of Job when he follows God's suggestion to persecute Job in order to test his faith. In this case, he sounds like one of God's employees who gets given the dirty work ...

Answer 3

GIVE ME ANOTHER THEORY AND I'LL ANSWER YOUR QUESTION.