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Everything that exists has come from somewhere. All things have a cause, and a cause has a

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cause, which has a cause. We can't keep going back like this though, because we end up in

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a logical impossibility. We have to have had a start, a first cause. Christians say this

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is God, but it begs the question, who created God? Things that exist have three characteristics.

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They are matter, material or physical things, and this is what something is. They are in space.

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They occupy some location, and this is where something is. And they are in time. This is when

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something is. All things in existence have these three characteristics, but where did they come

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from? The Big Bang Theory is probably the most popular and famous explanation for how the universe

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began. But what caused the Big Bang? Humans can make things, but genuine creation is different.

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Making something is taking something and turning it into something else. Genuine creation is taking

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nothing and creating something. How could something come from nothing?

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Modern physics can't answer this. Einstein's theory of general relativity says that everything

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matter has to have come from energy. Where could the unimaginable amount of energy required to

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create the universe have come from? It would require a cause with a lot of power. And if

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material things needs an original cause, the beginning of the chain of causes needs something

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to be not material or physical. It must be immaterial or spirit. And before space existed,

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the thing that started everything off must have been outside of space or non-spatial.

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And before time existed, time must have been created by something which is outside of time.

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Unbound by it, we need something eternal. So what could have all these characteristics?

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Infinite power, immaterial, non-spatial and eternal. Sure sounds a lot like God to me.

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So who created God? Well, no one. God doesn't require creating, God just was.

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