Arguments for the Existence of God - Part I

Here are some arguments for the existence of God. I have this posted on my other blog as well. These are not arguments for the Christian God (nor the Hindu or Muslim). I am simply trying to establish that a god exists. Anyway, this series will be four parts. Here is part one. Please let me know what you think.

The First Cause
History consists of a series of events that have happened over time one after the other. Each of these events has a cause and most are a result of the previous event, but all are certainly affected by the previous event. The world as it is came from the result of the world as it was which also came from the world as it was before. If we trace these events all the way back, what will we find? You will either find the first event, or the past stretches back into infinity. If it went back into infinity we run into many problems logically which we don’t have time to get into tonight. It seems common to all that there must have been a beginning at some point. Scientist call this the big bang, because the idea that it stretched back into infinity is ridiculous and illogical. But the questions still remains, who caused the big bang? Where did everything come from that banged? It couldn’t have just appeared out of nowhere. A common axiom of philosophy is “from nothing, comes nothing”. You cannot believe that everything just appeared. It is equally ridiculous to believe that this universe has just always existed. So, where did it come from. Who caused the bang, if there was one?
Ancient philosophers noted that there must be an “unmoved mover” or a god who cannot be changed, who is not affected by time, who set things in motion. God is not bound by time like we are. We had to have a beginning. Everything we experience in this universe had to have a beginning, but God doesn’t. He created it from nothing and started it all. The fact that God has always existed is impossible for us as finite humans to understand, but it is not illogical like the idea that the universe has always existed. God is our first cause.

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