The Necessity of God - E-book - ePub

When it comes to the divine existence, there is perhaps no greater or more complex question than "Who or what caused God?" This query is frequently used as a counter to arguments in favor of God's existence. But if everything must have a cause, what caused God? As a response, it is essential to understand that the Argument from Contingency does not necessarily affirm that everything must have a cause. As you delve deeper into this argument, you might begin to perceive a pattern of interconnectedness that threads through every entity in the universe.
However, this chain of contingency must find its anchor somewhere. The Argument from Contingency proposes that this anchor is a being that is independent and necessary - a being upon which everything else is contingent.