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DRE · 27w
God, by definition, is the uncaused cause. Only things that begin to exist need a cause, and God did not begin to exist. He is eternal. That is not ignorance, it is a logical necessity. If there is no...
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Why is something from nothing impossible?
Have you got any nothing we can test?

I haven't got to believe in anything eternal, because I have the humility to say "I don't know"

God perhaps did not begin to exist (I agree in a sense) but you claim he began to act. Why? When? How?
This is what I mean when I say you have only given a name to your ignorance.
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DRE · 27w
Something from nothing is impossible because ‘nothing’ has no properties. It cannot cause anything, it cannot change, it cannot act. By ‘nothing’ I mean the absence of anything, not empty space or a vacuum. You cannot test it because there is literally nothing to test. As for believing in ...