Causation/The Cosmological Argument by M Davy https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl Is this a good argument to prove the existence of God? en-us 2018-06-26 14:05:10 UTC 2021-05-24 12:02:31 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Planets.png https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/268847530 What caused God? It contradicts itself]]> 2018-06-28 10:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/268847530 This appeals to the logical cause and effect 14dohertyj https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/268847549 2018-06-28 10:22:53 UTC https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/268847549 https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/268847639 God defines himself as independant from all things - Job 38]]> 2018-06-28 10:24:21 UTC https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/268847639 All beings are contingent and there was once nothing. So there must be a God to bring everything into existence. https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553358058 2021-05-24 11:57:46 UTC https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553358058 Genesis 1:1 "in the beginning God created the heavens and the earths" https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553358303 2021-05-24 11:57:53 UTC https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553358303 https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553358542 If God always existed, then the universe could've too

]]> 2021-05-24 11:58:00 UTC https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553358542 https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553358545 The big bang was spontainious and random]]> 2021-05-24 11:58:01 UTC https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553358545 https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553358680 just because certain things and events have a cause, doesn't mean the universe does.]]> 2021-05-24 11:58:06 UTC https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553358680 Just because things in the universe have a cause, that does not mean the whole umiverse has a cause https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553358749 2021-05-24 11:58:06 UTC https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553358749 If God has always existed who is to say that the universe has always existed? https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553359037 2021-05-24 11:58:13 UTC https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553359037 Just because events have a cause, doesn't mean God does https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553359038 2021-05-24 11:58:13 UTC https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553359038 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. https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553359121 2021-05-24 11:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553359121 https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553359336 Book of job
'God defines himself as independent from all things'
God is self-causing and self-sufficient]]> 2021-05-24 11:58:22 UTC https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553359336 God is self-existent. God is the cause and effect of himself; a singular reality beyond the scope of all other cause and effect. https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553359876 2021-05-24 11:58:30 UTC https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553359876 Things can change from one thing to another. There has to be a beginning to go from potentiality to actuality. God is that beginning. https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553360386 2021-05-24 11:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553360386 Supports the creation story https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553360674 That God created the heavens and the earth in the beggining

]]> 2021-05-24 11:58:57 UTC https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553360674 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 https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553361682 2021-05-24 11:59:33 UTC https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553361682 17newmana2 https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553362017 Very contradicting, not strong argument ]]> 2021-05-24 11:59:45 UTC https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553362017 The Big Bang was random https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553362087 2021-05-24 11:59:48 UTC https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553362087 17berryt https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553363061 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.]]> 2021-05-24 12:00:15 UTC https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553363061 https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553363128 Even if there was a cause - why should the cause have to be God - jumped to a conclusion]]> 2021-05-24 12:00:18 UTC https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553363128 God is eternal and always existed. https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553363237 2021-05-24 12:00:22 UTC https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553363237 The reason for the Big Bang is not yet knows so it could've been God. https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553364673 2021-05-24 12:01:05 UTC https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553364673 https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553364922 '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?']]> 2021-05-24 12:01:08 UTC https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553364922 https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553366167 “And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together” Colossians 1:17 ESV]]> 2021-05-24 12:01:38 UTC https://padlet.com/m_davy/mglu8n2ldwjl/wish/1553366167