Today I spent time going through Ligonier’s lecture on causality or the nature of cause and effect. That with every effect in this physical universe, there must be a cause. R.C. Sproul proceeded to refute each argument about the idea that there are some effects without a cause. And that more specifically, according to Hume, all effects are simply a series of events ‘in contiguity’.
Sproul contends that with every effect, there’s something that sets it in motion. That something must at some point exist independent of a cause to produce an effect. To forward the thought that there is no separate being outside of what it takes to produce cause and effect, Hume’s idea is a self-spawned point of convenience. Or at best, a misunderstanding about the nature of God and His independence from the dimension of time. Contrary to Hume’s view, God is not somehow co-mingled with “everything” or put into effect by some cause.
Rather, it’s logically accurate to conclude that you can not expect to see anything come out of nothing (i.e., the law of contradiction). Or, more specifically, concerning Creation and the existence of God, something out of nothing when God is independent of time and our physical universe. God isn’t required to exist through external cause. God is an eternal being. An uncaused cause. For us, God is the first cause, either through order not understood or otherwise.
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