The Cosmological
Argument for a Personal Creator God
The
cosmological argument is the first nail in the lid to the coffin that contains
the Atheistic worldview. A worldview is the way you see the world. Imagine a
pair of glasses that colors everything you see, and you have the idea of a worldview.
Christians have a Christian worldview or a biblical worldview.
The
Word Cosmos means world or universe,
and logical means capable of
reasoning or using reason in an orderly fashion. So the cosmological argument
is the use of the universe to argue about something. Today, we are going to use the cosmological
argument to argue for the existence of GOD!
The
first and most important verse in the Bible is found in the 1st book,
in the 1st chapter, and in the 1st verse:
In the beginning
God created the heaven and the earth (Gen 1:1).
This
verse does not argue for the existence of God; instead, it presents the
absolute truth that the cosmos was created by God in the beginning. It assumes the existence of God.
When
did God create the universe, or when did the universe start? The Bible says in
the beginning. We could think of it like: January 1, year 0000.
But
today, atheistic scientists argue that there isn’t a God. They also argue that
the Bible is NOT correct and that there isn’t a God or any gods. So, who is right? Is the Bible right, or are
atheistic scientists right? The cosmological argument is found in the Bible,
but you don’t need the Bible to prove it correct. The argument goes like this:
1. Everything
that had a beginning has a cause (Can you think of anything that doesn’t have a
cause?)
2. The universe
had a beginning (It has NOT always existed.)
All
scientists believe that the universe is running out of energy (the second law
of Thermodynamics). There is a finite amount of energy in the universe and it
is getting less every day. The fact that
there is less energy available in the universe today than 20 years ago proves
that the universe had a beginning; the universe is NOT eternal—it had a
beginning.
The
second reason we know that the universe had a beginning is the Law of Entropy.
The law of entropy states that anything left to itself will naturally fall
apart. What do you know that left to itself naturally falls apart? Think about
leftovers in the refrigerator. Since the universe has not completely fallen
apart, we know that it had a beginning and is slowly falling apart—but not yet.
3. Therefore,
the universe had a cause.
Secular
scientists do not argue that the universe did not have a beginning or that
something did not cause it. Instead, they argue that the Universe was caused by
a big bang! The Big Bang Theory is the
idea that a cosmic explosion created the universe. So we are left with this: Is my faith in a
cosmic explosion or something or someone else? Who created the universe? How
did it get here? Who made this IPhone? Who made the first model T automobile? Our
questions go on and on. Imagine all the Lego building blocks in the universe in
a huge brown paper bag, there is a cosmic explosion, and out comes a Lego city!
Utterly ridiculous—don’t you agree? But the argument falls apart even more.
If
everything that has a beginning must have a cause, and it must—then what is the
cause of the universe? The Christian/biblical worldview argues that the cause
of the universe is a personal creator God—God is the uncaused cause or the
first cause for everything.
Christians
argue that God is the uncaused cause for several reasons. First, the Bible states it! Secondly, there
are numerous non-material, non-tangible, immeasurable things that exist in so
much of creation.
1)
Scripture
·
Hebrews
3:4—For every house is built by some man; but he that built all things is God.
·
John
1:3—All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was
made.
2)
Christians argue that the uncaused cause of the universe must be God and not a
cosmic explosion. Why? Because in the universe we see too much that reflects
the nature of a personal, powerful, immaterial, self-existent being. Consider
things like: love, hate, kindness, anger, patience, compassion, creativity,
empathy, sympathy, beauty, harmony, order, logic, joy, etc. Where would all of
these kind of immaterial, non-tangible, immeasurable things come from?
Do
you remember our Lego in a brown paper bag explosion idea? Well, now you need the plastic Lego building
blocks to have joy or to love one another as they land in the form of a Lego
city! You can’t measure love like you measure natural gas. Scientists can’t
test for the presence of love like carbon. They are not the same. How would a
cosmic explosion create the emotion of sympathy or love or joy or excitement?
Do dogs love? Yes. Do dolphins love? Yes. The answer is found in a personal, powerful,
creative God with these same kind of attributes who created all these things
into His creation. God is love and thus we find love in His creation.
Reference: I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist (2004) by Geisler and Turek p. 75
