Every effect has a cause – why can’t this argument be applied to God?
Any more question so why can't we apply the cause effect argument to God itself yes see we can apply and when we apply it we have to begin with definitions if we start off with a particular conception of God maybe you know particular image that we see in a church or in a temple or whatever where did we come from or where did that being come from here what is happening is we are looking at a particular depiction we are looking at a particular conception or depiction of God without understanding the concept of God in any field that we begin there are definitions and God is defined as the cause of all causes so if I keep tracing backward backward backward the point where I stop that point is God so to asking a question like asking a question like who is the cause of God that is like asking a question why is the circle circular the definition of circle is circular that's just a matter of definition so God is by definition the cause of all causes that's why the question who caused God indicates a lack of understanding of the definition of God now I will explain this further what I mean by this is ultimately if we trace back to origins we have two options everything came from something or everything came from nothing if I say everything came from nothing we have no correlation with that we don't see anywhere something coming from nothing even when scientists sometimes they say that they see some fundamental particles popping out they understand ok that particle popped out but some antimaterial particle also came out and there was a quantum mechanical vacuum or something like that from which it came out so we don't see anywhere anything coming from nothing so if anything has not come from nothing anywhere in our observation to assume that everything that exists in observation came from nothing that is an irrational demand on our faith how can everything have come from nothing so if everything has come from something then what is that something from which it came so from the point of pure logic the cause of all causes cannot have a cause isn't it the cause of all causes if it has a cause then that cause is the cause of all causes and to put it another way if a child reads a novel for the first time and after reading the novel the child comes to know that's the author, the child again starts going through the novel where is the author in the novel now the author is not in the novel the author made the timeline the author made the storyline, the author made the characters the author made the plot but the author exists outside the novel the same way God exists outside the fabric of time and space so when we look at the world, we look at the chain of cause and effects God is not just another thing within existence God is the foundation of all of existence so as long as we start if we start with a particular depiction of God we think of Christ or Krishna or whatever, if we start with this image and we think okay where did he come from that is a we are starting from a depiction without understanding the concept first start with the concept the concept is that God is the cause of all causes and now the cause of all causes cannot have a cause and science also tells us that the universe is not eternal so basically things have not just existed the way they have existed for it has a beginning so to say that the beginning was nothing that is illogical how can anything come from nothing everything coming from nothing so now what the nature of that something is from which everything came, that is a matter of question, that is a matter of discussion that's a different subject so whatever is the point where our tracing of causes backward going stops, that's the point of God so the question is itself illogical where did God come from we don't understand the definition of God think about it.