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Originally Posted by DrKvothe
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The cosmological argument does not necessitate a god. It simply requires a First Cause. The big bang theory provides a First Cause, because in the absence of any form of dimensionality, the concept of something happening "before" is meaningless. Before time exists, causality can't exist.
God is always exempt from having a prior cause because he's not 'finite'. But the universe need not be finite either: perhaps the 'birth' of our universe rose from the 'death' of a previous, possibly identical universe. If such a cycle were infinite, it would be exempt from requiring a prior cause just like God.
What would it take to convince you that the claims of any one of the other thousands of religions that have existed or will exist is actually true? You would require PROOF. Does your own religion truly meet that burden of proof?
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Of course it necessitates a God. Only consciousness can create things. The big bang itself can't be the cause. Someone would have to trigger it just like a gun won't ever fire if nobody is there to pull it's trigger. Consciousness is the only possible logical cause for existence. Even if you were to suggest the cycle of the big bang were infinite, the first one would still had to have been caused by a conscious being.
Also, it doesn't matter how many religions there have been, there is still only one true God. The "gods" of ancient times aren't the same as God as they to are the children of the same one true God. All of the so called "gods" are the fallen angels and the Nephilim offspring they produced, they weren't actually made up characters but beings that actually existed and walked the Earth. However, Jesus proved his father is the one true God when he was raised from the dead as well as a plethora of other miracles.
Aside from the Bible there is also plenty of scientific proof that God exists the best of which is the discovery of DNA. Only a conscious being of unimaginable intelligence could create something such as DNA which is really just an ultra complex biomechanical computer capable of creating living organisms. It's written in a specific chemical language with it's own alphabet. At some point someone would have had to define this alphabet as inanimate matter is incapable of doing so.
You wouldn't go to some ancient temple, see a bunch of hieroglyph's and think "hmm cool natural formation!". No, it's obvious that someone created it. The only difference between those hieroglyph's and DNA is that DNA is much smaller and harder to see and far more advanced.