The very idea of the Bible as a reliable source of information on virtually any topic is controversial. After all, nothing induces more visceral and irrational reactions in people than the subjects of religion and politics. But I try to steer clear of politics because these days the political landscape has become the intellectual equivalent…
The First Cause of existence is made up of the causeless principles of “Right” and “Just”. That is all we can know about the nature of the First Cause based solely on human understanding. Anything else we come to know about the First Cause has to come from a source beyond human understanding; that information…
All right, I’m (finally) ready to identify the First Cause of existence. Lets begin with a recap. Information is transcendent and time-less, and can have a dramatic affect of the physical world. Principles are the first cause of information. Principles are qualitative (subjective) and quantitative (objective) values. The First Cause of existence must consist of…
The First Cause of the physical universe is causeless, supernatural, transcendent, and eternal. The First Cause of the physical universe can only be described in non-physical terms…because the First Cause is non-physical. This shouldn’t actually be all that surprising, because when contemplating the answer to “What’s the point?” (the question that started this whole thing),…
So here’s where we are – we know that existence exists, and we know that one of the cardinal rules of existence is causality. We also know through the rules of causality that the finite universe in which we live had to have a First Cause (a cause without a preceding event). And we know…