I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord,
Revelation 1:8
"The arguments against God’s existence were weak, vague, and dubious. Richard Dawkins and his coterie of Darwinists and materialists recycled sophomoric tropes (“Who made God?!,”).
The answer to the question is simple.
God is the Unmoved Mover,
the Uncaused Cause,
the Necessary Existence.
He is the necessary prerequisite for making, causing, and existing.
How so, one might ask?
Succinctly, all change in nature consists of three steps:
By the law of non-contradiction, a thing may not exist and not exist at the same moment in the same way.
Applied to change, this means that a thing may not be potential and actual in the same respect at the same time.
That is, a thing may not be the cause of its own change.
Everything that is changed is changed by another.
If everything has potentiality (i.e., can be “made”), then the process of change — steps 1, 2, and 3 — could not get started, because if everything is potential, nothing is actual.
If nothing is actual, nothing can change or be made or even exist.
To account for change or causation or even existence itself, there must be Someone Who is unchanged, uncaused, and Who necessarily exists. This is the cosmological argument, which is the framework for Aquinas’ first three ways."
EN&V/DavidKlinghoffer
Revelation 1:8
"The arguments against God’s existence were weak, vague, and dubious. Richard Dawkins and his coterie of Darwinists and materialists recycled sophomoric tropes (“Who made God?!,”).
God is not “made.”
He is not a “thing” in the collection of things we call nature.
If He were a thing, He wouldn’t be God.
God is the Unmoved Mover,
the Uncaused Cause,
the Necessary Existence.
He is the necessary prerequisite for making, causing, and existing.
How so, one might ask?
Succinctly, all change in nature consists of three steps:
the existence of potentiality,
the process of change,
the final actuality.
By the law of non-contradiction, a thing may not exist and not exist at the same moment in the same way.
Applied to change, this means that a thing may not be potential and actual in the same respect at the same time.
That is, a thing may not be the cause of its own change.
Everything that is changed is changed by another.
If everything has potentiality (i.e., can be “made”), then the process of change — steps 1, 2, and 3 — could not get started, because if everything is potential, nothing is actual.
If nothing is actual, nothing can change or be made or even exist.
To account for change or causation or even existence itself, there must be Someone Who is unchanged, uncaused, and Who necessarily exists. This is the cosmological argument, which is the framework for Aquinas’ first three ways."
EN&V/DavidKlinghoffer