Saturday, June 2, 2018

The Problem of Multiple Inferences of the One God Associated with any Infinite Series Used to Account for a Contingent Substance Associated with Atheism.



Atheism denies the existence of God who is being and the universal cause of being. Consequently, atheists may posit an infinite series of causes to account for the existence of any single contingent substance. But a contingent substance also has acts, ordering, motion, causes, and perfections. Each of which requires a first act, first order, first cause, and first perfection. For the order of each member within the series and the order of the entire series implies an orderer, which orders the parts and the whole of the series.

Similarly, parts and the entire series of acts, causes, and perfections also points to the first act, first cause, first perfection, which is God. So even if an infinite series of causes, or movers, or orderers, or perfectors is posited to account for any creature, the diverse series points to a first act, first order, first cause, and first perfection which is itself, God. For God is God of all, even if any infinite series exists that purportedly account for the existence of any contingent creature.

The atheistic understanding of a creature which is dependent upon God who dominates everything about the infinite series is the same God denied by atheism. Therefore, the atheistic appeal to an infinite series is an affirmation of the God who dominates the same infinite series. 

Conclusion - The denial and affirmation of the same God within atheist's explanation for the existence of contingent substances infers atheism is false.

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