{"id":566,"date":"2021-05-20T20:50:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T20:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angelobiblestudy.com\/?page_id=566"},"modified":"2021-05-20T20:55:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T20:55:44","slug":"what-caused-god","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/angelobiblestudy.com\/?page_id=566","title":{"rendered":"What Caused God?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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What Caused God? <\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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by Eric Lyons, M. Min.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Everyone knows the Christian\u2019s response to this question: God is eternal; He had no cause. Although atheists may think that this answer is a cop-out and unscientific, both observation and Revelation declare otherwise.<\/p>

From what we observe\u00a0in nature<\/strong>, matter and energy are neither created nor destroyed. Scientists refer to this fact as the First Law of Thermodynamics. Evolutionists allege that the Universe began with the explosion of a ball of matter 13.6 billion years ago, yet they never have provided a reasonable explanation for the cause of the \u201coriginal\u201d ball of matter. An attempt was made recently in the April 28, 2007 issue of\u00a0New Scientist<\/em>\u00a0magazine titled \u201cThe Beginning: What Triggered the Big Bang.\u201d Notice, however, the last line of the article: \u201c[T]he quest to understand the origin of the universe seems destined to continue until we can answer a deeper question:\u00a0why is there anything at all instead of nothing?<\/strong>\u201d (194[2601]:33, emp. added). The fact is, a logical, naturalistic explanation for the origin of the \u201coriginal\u201d ball of matter that supposedly led to the Universe does not exist. It cannot exist so long as the First Law of Thermodynamics is true (i.e., matter and energy cannot create itself).<\/p>

Since the physical Universe exists, and yet it could not have created itself, then the Universe is either eternal or something\/someone outside of the Universe must have created it. Relatively few scientists propose that the Universe is eternal. In fact, there would be no point in attempting to explain the \u201cbeginning\u201d of the Universe if they believed it always existed. What\u2019s more, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that matter and energy become less usable over time, has led scientists to conclude that the Universe has not always existed.<\/p>

If matter is not eternal, however, and it cannot create itself, then the only logical conclusion is that something\/someone outside of nature (i.e., supernatural) caused the Universe and everything in it. Christians call this Someone, \u201cthe everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth\u201d (Isaiah 40:28).<\/p>

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\u201cThe Universe Before Ours\u201d (2007),\u00a0New Scientist<\/em>, 194[2601]:28-33, April 28.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What Caused God? by Eric Lyons, M. Min.\u00a0 Everyone knows the Christian\u2019s response to this question: God is eternal; He had no cause. Although atheists may think that this answer is a cop-out and unscientific, both observation and Revelation declare otherwise. From what we observe\u00a0in nature, matter and energy are neither created nor destroyed. Scientists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-566","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpbf-post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t