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“And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together” Colossians 1:17 ESV

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'If at one time nothing was in existence, it would have been impossible for anything to have begun to exist; and even now nothing would be in existence. ' 'How can anything that exists from eternity have a cause?'

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The reason for the Big Bang is not yet knows so it could've been God.

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The reason for the Big Bang is not yet knows so it could've been God.

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Even if there was a cause - why should the cause have to be God - jumped to a conclusion

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There is no explanation behind the existence of God as a necessary being- he must have existed before he existed which defies the logic previously applied to the argument.

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Very contradicting, not strong argument

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The 'Big Bang' can support the first cause argument. If God caused the 'Big Bang' then God is the 'first cause' that beought the cosmos into existence

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The 'Big Bang' can support the first cause argument. If God caused the 'Big Bang' then God is the 'first cause' that beought the cosmos into existence

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That God created the heavens and the earth in the beggining

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Things can change from one thing to another. There has to be a beginning to go from potentiality to actuality. God is that beginning.

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Things can change from one thing to another. There has to be a beginning to go from potentiality to actuality. God is that beginning.

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God is self-existent. God is the cause and effect of himself; a singular reality beyond the scope of all other cause and effect.

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God is self-existent. God is the cause and effect of himself; a singular reality beyond the scope of all other cause and effect.

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Book of job
'God defines himself as independent from all things'
God is self-causing and self-sufficient

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Everything has a cause. Infinite regress is impossible, meaning we can't go backwards without a start to everything. So there has to be a beginning and that beginning is God.

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Everything has a cause. Infinite regress is impossible, meaning we can't go backwards without a start to everything. So there has to be a beginning and that beginning is God.

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Just because events have a cause, doesn't mean God does

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Just because events have a cause, doesn't mean God does

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If God has always existed who is to say that the universe has always existed?

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If God has always existed who is to say that the universe has always existed?

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Just because things in the universe have a cause, that does not mean the whole umiverse has a cause

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Just because things in the universe have a cause, that does not mean the whole umiverse has a cause

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just because certain things and events have a cause, doesn't mean the universe does.

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The big bang was spontainious and random

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If God always existed, then the universe could've too

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Genesis 1:1 "in the beginning God created the heavens and the earths"

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Genesis 1:1 "in the beginning God created the heavens and the earths"

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All beings are contingent and there was once nothing. So there must be a God to bring everything into existence.

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All beings are contingent and there was once nothing. So there must be a God to bring everything into existence.

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God defines himself as independant from all things - Job 38

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This appeals to the logical cause and effect 

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This appeals to the logical cause and effect 

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What caused God? It contradicts itself