POP QUIZ
who am i
what is my purpose
what went wrong
where do i go from here
what is my purpose
what went wrong
where do i go from here
these questions are answered by the Christian worldview in a complete and non contradictory way
and the thing is whether your a stay at home mum, dying of cancer in hospital, running the country or starving in africa .. we all have a lifelong quest to answer these questions… as Christians we believe that we have answered these questions… the problem the church faces is how do we get our answers across to our neighbours when (in one sense) they seem to be speaking another language?
posted by Ab Truth at 4:38 pm
4 Comments:
You forgot the most basic question of all:
Why does anything exist? Why is there something rather than nothing at all?
And your answer is?
ahhh yes... one of the absolute foundational questions that undergirds the Christian worldview...
for something to exist (ie the universe and everything) there has to be an agent capable of bringing something into existence that is personal, outside of the universe and chooses to do so.
closley related to Kalams cosmological arguement for the existence of God.
a. there exists in the universe elements that are contingent on prior causes. (cause and effect)
b. prior causes cannot regress infinitely back in time (otherwise we would never get to the present)
c. there must be a 'first cause' that is sufficient and uncaused
Yes but.
The question then becomes why does this first cause exist rather than not exist?
Saying the first cause is not caused does not actually explain its existence.
By the way, the first cause argument only gives God a very small "need" for the existence of the Universe. All he had to do was wink or exercise a momentary thought (I'm being metaphorical here) and the Universe came into existence. He is not needed after that. Just wondering out loud whether even this trivial need can be removed - i.e. can you remove the need for a first cause?
"Saying the first cause is not caused does not actually explain its existence."
No it doesn't explain his existence but just shows that his existence is necessary with no explanation as to the why. (get your head around the question 'why does God exist?' whew!)
"...the Universe came into existence. He is not needed after that. Just wondering out loud whether even this trivial need can be removed - i.e. can you remove the need for a first cause?"
true... the first cause could have set it up in such a way that he is not needed... i don't think he did as i think he is needed but it is certainly possible.
i don't think you can remove the need for a first cause and remain logical though... i've tried as so have many others. definitely worth the exercise though.
there are many arguments for the existence of God but if one of them is founded on a faulty premise then i don't want it...
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