If something exists now, then something has always existed.
Before we can show the existence of God, it’s important to prove that something or someone has always existed. Logically, we know there are only 4 possibilities. Either there was a time when nothing ever existed, or there is something (the material world) or someone (who we call God) has always existed. The last alternative is that everything is merely illusory and has no real existence.
A future blog post will consider illusion as an option and, if something is eternal, what is it. In this section, we consider that if anything exists now, something or someone has had to always exist.
Logical reasoning can clearly rule out the option that there was ever a time when nothing ever existed. There is a law of logic that we know as the law of non-contradiction. This law says that something cannot be “A” and not “A” at the same time and in the same relationship.
Using this law, in which we all think rationally, it’s clear that if there was a time when nothing existed, nothing could possibly exist now because nothing cannot produce something. Self- creation is impossible because it would have to be, in order for it to cause creation, and not be at the same time and in the same relationship. This rules out any theory of self-generation, no matter the length of time involved.
For this reason, we can readily conclude that something or someone has always existed, or everything we perceive as existing is merely an illusion. I’ll discuss these alternatives in the following posts.
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