Everything that exists has come from somewhere. All things have a cause, and a cause has a
cause, which has a cause. We can't keep going back like this though, because we end up in
a logical impossibility. We have to have had a start, a first cause. Christians say this
is God, but it begs the question, who created God? Things that exist have three characteristics.
They are matter, material or physical things, and this is what something is. They are in space.
They occupy some location, and this is where something is. And they are in time. This is when
something is. All things in existence have these three characteristics, but where did they come
from? The Big Bang Theory is probably the most popular and famous explanation for how the universe
began. But what caused the Big Bang? Humans can make things, but genuine creation is different.
Making something is taking something and turning it into something else. Genuine creation is taking
nothing and creating something. How could something come from nothing?
Modern physics can't answer this. Einstein's theory of general relativity says that everything
matter has to have come from energy. Where could the unimaginable amount of energy required to
create the universe have come from? It would require a cause with a lot of power. And if
material things needs an original cause, the beginning of the chain of causes needs something
to be not material or physical. It must be immaterial or spirit. And before space existed,
the thing that started everything off must have been outside of space or non-spatial.
And before time existed, time must have been created by something which is outside of time.
Unbound by it, we need something eternal. So what could have all these characteristics?
Infinite power, immaterial, non-spatial and eternal. Sure sounds a lot like God to me.
So who created God? Well, no one. God doesn't require creating, God just was.
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