If you are really there, God, why on earth don't you prove it? (part 3)

The final possibility for the existence of the universe is that a self-existent being created it. The question that we must ask is that is it rational to believe that an uncaused being exists? When some think about this they misunderstand the law of cause and effect. This law says that for every effect there must be a cause, but does NOT say that there must be a cause for everything. So it is logical for a being to exist that is self-existent.

But not only is it possible for a self-existent being to exist, it is also necessary. Because something exists now, we can reason that something has always existed for something cannot come from nothing unless it creates itself. So there has to have been something that is self-existent. But this being is also ontologically necessary, which means that "he exists by the necessity of his own being." This being cannot not exist.

The question is, is this being God? To further make us think about this being we need to understand that this being, whom I will call God, is more than an unmoved mover. He is a one with purpose and personality. Therefore, creation is not just a random accident that is going nowhere, but has purpose and design.

A man by the name of R.C. Sproul wrote the following: Self-existent, formless, eternal matter has no personality. Impersonal forces have no mind, no will, and therefore cannot design anything. We recognize that personal reality exists in the universe. But it is precisely because God is personal and has a mind and will that his very existence is attacked. If God were conceived of as an amorphous, undefined "higher power" or impersonal force, there would be little theological fuss about him. 


Now I realize that I skipped some steps in this process of moving from a self-existent being to that being actually being the God of the Bible who created with purpose, but in some ways it is a short step between the two. Basically, what I have deduced is that there is an uncaused cause that began the universe and this universe was not an accident, but has purpose. So because it has purpose, this self-existent being must have personality as was mentioned above.

Did these brief few paragraphs answer everyone's questions. I do not expect they did as there is much more that can be written. So, any questions?