| If we have god as the creator then as the creator he is the first cause there is no preceding cause. We as humans are finite so we tend to identify with a finite universe but the creator has to be above that which he has created and beyond the finite and therefore infinite. Only if he the creator were finite would he also need a cause, but he is not and the very first finite thing brought into existence was the universe, therefore he has no need for a cause relating to his own existence.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell |