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The Cosmological Argument

The cosmological argument seeks to prove that God is the explanation or reason for creation and everything else. The argument has two parts. The first tries to establish the existence of a self-existent being, a being not dependent of anything else but its existence is accounted for by its own nature. The second argument attempts to prove that this self-existent being is what we call God (107). The argument works on the premise that everything has a reason. This idea is referred to as the Principle of Sufficient Reason. According to this argument everything has a reason to exist. The universe and all we know exists and has a reason to exist, therefore God exists as that reason. Everything is dependent on something else, but not everything can be dependent. Something has to be "the beginning", not dependent on anthing else but itself, that something is God. This argument uses deductive reasoning but was and still is controversial. What's controversial according to the book is that the argument makes the mistake of treating the collection or series of dependent beings as a dependent being itself and suggests that because each member of the collection of dependent beings has a cause, the collection itself must have a cause (110). 

Personally, I believe there is a self-existent being. A sort of beginning or start that has no start of its own as it is the beginning. A being that just was. I believe this being is God. As He refers to Himself in Hebrew and Christian scripture, "I am the Alpha and the Omega." I believe that the reasons why the universe exists is a question not meant for us to ever obtain an answer to. What seems to be valid is that everything is dependent. Everything has a cause and nothing that we can see, grasp and understand just came to be out of nothing. What we can't see and grasp just leaves questions that have been asked for hundreds of years. Perhaps, we're not meant to know everything. 

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