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Originally Posted by JCC
Then what created God, if everything has a cause? If God can just be there, then everything else can, and if he can't, then there's creators ad infinitum. That's basic Atheist rhetoric, but it's also true.
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The point of the cosmological argument is that there must've been a first cause. Hence necessary non-contingent being.
Everything isn't just there, we kick a football, it moves. A painting - it didn't just appear, somebody painted it, somebody got inspiration from a tree to paint it, the tree grew because a seed fell, and so on.
Everything we know has a cause, yet nothing we know is infinite. So, you can either say the cosmological argument is correct, or just say the universe is a series of infinite causes and effects.
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