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Old 08-17-2005, 11:30 PM
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Default Re: sieg\'s second philosophical post on atheism

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2) My friend also likes to argue by asking the age old atheistic query, "Who created God?" This question likely comes in response to a cosmological type argument which argues that since everything must have a cause, then the universe must have a cause, which is the First Cause, or God. My standard response, as a Christian, is something to the effect of, "God is outside of time and space, and is eternal. By definition, God is uncaused." On the radio program, Stroebel argued something similar in response to an atheist caller. He said that the universe must have a cause, since we know it had a beginning (according to big bang cosmology). So only things that have a beginning were necessarily caused. The universe could not have come from nothing; nothing can possibly come from nothing. Since God, by definition, is eternal, having no beginning, God does not need to have been caused. The question, 'who created god', doesnt really make sense. No one created God.

[/ QUOTE ]Did anyone else come away from this paragraph thinking: God must be nothing?
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