Originally posted by Unfalsifiable
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Not even the feeblest minds among the atheists would be gulled in by this wheezy old gag. Your argument boils down to:
P1. Things exist.
P2. Every thing has a cause.
C1. Therefore, every thing that exists has a cause.
C2. And each of those causes has a cause.
P3. But that can't go on forever.
QED God.
To which any atheist worth the name would say:
P2 and P3 are contradictory. First, you assert that, yes, everything has a cause. And you have to say that to set up any mystery about why the Universe is here. If we're not in a search for causes, we could simply accept what is on its own brute terms. Then, after you start flowing backwards in the infinite regress of cause and effect, you change your mind and say that there has to be something that is not caused, i.e., that, no, not everything has a cause. And you have to say that, or you never escape from the investigation of natural phenomena. The problem for the profoundly unimpressed atheist is that you're trying to have it both ways.
If there has to be something that is not caused, a start to the whole sheebang, why not let it be the Universe which we all observe, rather than the God who we don't?
Logic is not the Christian's friend. The Bible is. Preach the Bible. The proof of God's existence is that the Bible says He exists. That proof cannot be undermined or talked away. It is self-sufficient and indisputable on its own terms.
Yours in Him,
bab

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