A circular argument

Evan Roberts
Aug 26, 2017 · 2 min read
Photo: Shihao Mei

If I told you, I had the answer to who made God would you believe me.

Subject x made God….

… so who made subject x

It could go round again. Ad infinitum and you have the same question.

With God you get the final answer. The concept of creation needing a creator is a construct of limitation. The dependant existance mother + father -> child ‘circle of life’. In which we exist.

Yet God is not human i.e. no-dependant for his existance.

With our human dependance on pre-existing variables. As intellectuals, we align our minds to rationality when we believe in the prexistance of a singular factor that needs no pre-existing factors. Otherwise we have bought into a circular argument, with no answer of substance.

John Lennox put it best when he compared it to the Ford motor car coming from the brain of Mr. Henry Ford. There is no way as a rational, intelectual human being say that the production line was a result of successive explotions.

Ford cars originated with Henry Ford’s idea.

Our circular unrest, finds rest in the words Jesus said “I am the way the truth and the life”. In surrendering to truth we find rest, not relativising it, nor counterfeiting truth.

We are living in a reality of limitations. Our need for oxygen, physical space of our bodies, the ageing process. All of these are our limitations. Much as a programmer programs an environment with limitations. God is the developer of space, time, and our environment of living. He made/started it. He is not present in it.

We should not hide from the hard questions. Hard questions deserve answers. If nothing is meaningless than my moral behaviour means nothing as does your opinion of this article. If it does mean something, let’s discuss its meaning.

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