Name: Anonymous 2008-03-13 9:10
God is eternal and not created. Firstly, you have 2 choices; either everything came from nothing (which is impossible), or something always existed and created us. You have no other choice.
This thing that always existed would be considered Eternal, having transcended time, space, and matter, being everlasting, having always existed. If you argue this is impossible, I would argue the contrary; it is impossible for this Eternal 'thing' to not exist, because the alternative is that nothing existed, which could only produce nothing. So, something always existed, and is therefor Eternal.
Now, for something to be Eternal, it can not consist of time, because time must have had a beginning. We exist in a universe of causality, so an infinite regress is impossible; there could not have been an infinite amount of time before right now, because we never would have reached this moment in time. That means time had a beginning, and whatever created time exists without time, beyond time, in timelessness; Eternity.
So, this Eternal Creator, created time, and the universe. This Eternal Creator cleary is extremely powerful, because the energy of the trillions of stars in the known universe were created by this Creator. And obviously, the Creator is extremely intelligent, having created an intelligent being such as mankind and a world in which to populate with it.
Or;
Time is the measure of the changes in matter. If matter ceases from changing, time ceases to exist. Likewise, space is the measure of the distance between two pieces of matter, and if matter ceased from being, so would space.
The question is; could there be an infinite sequence of changes between two events? If not, there could not be an infinite sequence of changes before right now. The obvious answer is no, there could not be an infinite sequence of changes between two events. That means there must be a beginning of time (or the beginning of change), because there could not have been an infinite amount of time (changes) before right now. This means time came into being a certain amount of time before right now, from something that exists without time, something eternal.
If something exists without time, it necessarily exists without matter, and is therefor without space as well. Something that exists without time is Eternal, something without matter is immaterial (invisible, untouchable), and something without space is omnipresent (not bound by spacial restriction). So, an Eternal immaterial omnipresent 'something' created matter, time, and space.
A wonder what this 'something' could be?
This thing that always existed would be considered Eternal, having transcended time, space, and matter, being everlasting, having always existed. If you argue this is impossible, I would argue the contrary; it is impossible for this Eternal 'thing' to not exist, because the alternative is that nothing existed, which could only produce nothing. So, something always existed, and is therefor Eternal.
Now, for something to be Eternal, it can not consist of time, because time must have had a beginning. We exist in a universe of causality, so an infinite regress is impossible; there could not have been an infinite amount of time before right now, because we never would have reached this moment in time. That means time had a beginning, and whatever created time exists without time, beyond time, in timelessness; Eternity.
So, this Eternal Creator, created time, and the universe. This Eternal Creator cleary is extremely powerful, because the energy of the trillions of stars in the known universe were created by this Creator. And obviously, the Creator is extremely intelligent, having created an intelligent being such as mankind and a world in which to populate with it.
Or;
Time is the measure of the changes in matter. If matter ceases from changing, time ceases to exist. Likewise, space is the measure of the distance between two pieces of matter, and if matter ceased from being, so would space.
The question is; could there be an infinite sequence of changes between two events? If not, there could not be an infinite sequence of changes before right now. The obvious answer is no, there could not be an infinite sequence of changes between two events. That means there must be a beginning of time (or the beginning of change), because there could not have been an infinite amount of time (changes) before right now. This means time came into being a certain amount of time before right now, from something that exists without time, something eternal.
If something exists without time, it necessarily exists without matter, and is therefor without space as well. Something that exists without time is Eternal, something without matter is immaterial (invisible, untouchable), and something without space is omnipresent (not bound by spacial restriction). So, an Eternal immaterial omnipresent 'something' created matter, time, and space.
A wonder what this 'something' could be?