Videos: Arguing God from First Cause — Cosmological Argument At Length

Cosmological Argument, Cosmology and Physics, Quran & Science

Videos: Arguing God from First Cause — Cosmological Argument At Length

Epigraph: بَدِيعُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ ۖ وَإِذَا قَضَىٰ أَمْرًا فَإِنَّمَا يَقُولُ لَهُ كُن فَيَكُونُ He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth, and when He decrees something, He says only, ‘Be,’ and it is. (Al Quran 2:117) Have they been created from nothing, or are they their own creators? Have they created the heavens and the…

August 1, 2024

3–4 minutes

god, islam, Quran

Epigraph:

بَدِيعُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ ۖ وَإِذَا قَضَىٰ أَمْرًا فَإِنَّمَا يَقُولُ لَهُ كُن فَيَكُونُ

He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth, and when He decrees something, He says only, ‘Be,’ and it is. (Al Quran 2:117)

Have they been created from nothing, or are they their own creators? Have they created the heavens and the earth? In truth they put no faith in anything. (Al Quran 52:35-36)

The Muslim Times’ Chief Editor’s comments

If we carefully review everything collected here with an open mind, we will realize that we have a good case for God the Creator of Abrahamic faiths and it is clearly outlined in the Quran. The theists speaking in this collection adequately explain away the obfuscations created by the atheists.

So, without further ado, here is the cumulative case for the cosmological argument or arguing for God from the first cause or from nothing at all, literally, except for the necessary God the Creator:

To Answer Who Created God, We Need to Understand Necessity

Alvin Carl Plantinga[a] (born November 15, 1932) is an American analytic philosopher who works primarily in the fields of philosophy of religion, epistemology (particularly on issues involving epistemic justification), and logic. From 1963 to 1982, Plantinga taught at Calvin University before accepting an appointment as the John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.[2] He later returned to […]

The Quran: Have the humans been created from nothing, or are they the creators?

Epigraph: أَمْ خُلِقُوا مِنْ غَيْرِ شَيْءٍ أَمْ هُمُ الْخَالِقُونَ أَمْ خَلَقُوا السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ ۚ بَل لَّا يُوقِنُونَ Have they been created from nothing, or are they their own creators? Have they created […]

Video: Finding God by Imagining Absolute Nothingness

Video: Can Metaphysics Discern God?

Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times One of my insights of presenting different videos of Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Closer to Truth, about God it […]

Video: Is God Necessary or Who Made God?

Epigraph اللَّهُ لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ الْحَيُّ الْقَيُّومُ ۚ لَا تَأْخُذُهُ سِنَةٌ وَلَا نَوْمٌ ۚ لَّهُ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الْأَرْضِ ۗ مَن ذَا الَّذِي يَشْفَعُ عِندَهُ إِلَّا بِإِذْنِهِ ۚ يَعْلَمُ مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمَا خَلْفَهُمْ ۖ وَلَا يُحِيطُونَ […]