You can mark it down and there are no exceptions. It’s an age-old, philosophical and scientific maxim. Without fear of contradiction or equivocation, it stands as an irrefutable principle of time and eternity, and it’s both simple and profound. Here it is: Everything that had a beginning must have a cause. There is nothing that exists that did not have an efficient cause which produced it. But, one might say, “Well, what’s the big deal about that? Everybody knows that nothing can just happen without something or someone causing it to happen.” Well, one would think so, but this is not the case. There are those who many would regard as brilliant, some even in the scientific area, who believe the universe came into existence on its own.
Stephen Hawking, dubbed by many as the world greatest physicist, recently declared, “Because of the existence of gravity, the universe was capable of creating itself from a state of nonexistence to existence…all because the reality of gravity.” His conclusion was that there was, therefore, simply no need for God. Gravity itself was quite up to the task of generating from nothing what we know as the universe. With all due respect to the acknowledged human brilliance of Dr. Hawking, he did not mention what or who was responsible for the existence of gravity. Where did gravity come from? How did gravity get here?
Our basic premise at the outset remains steadfast: everything that had a beginning must have a cause. And, for any who try to apply this to the Deity, their question, then, would be “Well, what caused God?” The biblical answer is, “God wasn’t caused. He is the uncaused first cause, and the only One who is. Philosophically and logically, there has to be a something, or a someone, that preexisted all else. One has a choice between a non-intelligent agent or an intelligent agent. And what do any of us know about a non-intelligent agent doing anything? What example can anyone cite regarding something that has no organic life self-generating organic life? Such an idea defies logic, science, and philosophy. The maxim stands unthreatened by all the sciences. Everything that had a beginning must have a cause. Every object and every person must have a precedent that caused it. God had no beginning, having existed as the uncaused first cause. Either somebody or something had to have always been. The choice is between someone having always been and was an intelligent source from which all else preceded, or something which was unintelligent and the source from which all else preceded. Those are your choices. A third option is not available.
The world’s greatest living physicist made his choice in selecting unintelligent gravity. The Bible clearly opts for the other choice, an intelligent, uncaused first Cause started it all. Your choice? Choose wisely.
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