THEISM

1. No finite thing can come from nothing. Every finite thing has a beginning. Every finite thing was caused.
   


2. If every finite thing has a beginning, then there was a point in time when no finite thing existed.
   


3. For the first finite thing to exist there must exist something that caused it into existence. A first cause. A prime mover.
   


4. This first cause or prime mover is self-existent and infinite, as its existence can not be dependent on, nor can it be limited by any other cause.



5. This "uncaused cause" must exist in order for anything else to exist. The reason why there is something rather than nothing.
   


6. And this we understand to be God.
   

For further reference see:
The Existence of God, http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608b.htm
Cosmological Argument, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_argument
The Nature and Attributes of God, http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06612a.htm

God Our Dad II

Here's more of those Dear God letters you love.


Dear God,
I went to this wedding and they kissed right in church. Is that ok?
- Neil



Dear God,
I think the stapler is one of your greatest invention
- Ruth M.



Dear God,
In bible times did they really talk that fancy?
- Jennifer



Dear God,
I think about you sometimes even when I'm not praying
- Elliott



Dear God,
I am Amearican What are you?
- Robert



Dear God,
I bet it is very hard for you to love all of everybody in the world. There are only 4 people in our family and I can never do it.
- Nan



Dear God,
Please put another holiday between Christmas and Easter. There is nothing good in there now.
- Ginny



Dear God,
If you want to watch in Church on Sunday I will show you my new shoes.
- Mickey D.



Dear God,
If we come back as something please don't let me be Jennifer Horton because I hate her
- Denise



God,
I would like to live 900 years like the guy in the Bible
- Love, Chris



Dear God,
If you let the dinasor not exstinct we would not have a country. You did the right thing.
- Jonathan

God Our Dad

Somebody emailed me this Dear God letters written by kids. I bet God couldn't help but love these kind of letters as I did, and I know you would too.



Dear God,
Are you really invisible or is that just a trick
- Lucy



Dear God,
I want to be just like my Daddy when I get big but not with so much hair all over - Sam



Dear God,
Did you mean for giraffe to look like that or was it an accident - Norma


Dear God,
I keep waiting for Spring but it never come yet. Don't forget. - Mark


Dear God,
Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don't you just keep the ones you got now? - Jane


You don't have to worry about me. I always look both ways - Dean


If you give me genie lamp like Alladin I will give you anything you want except my money or my chess set. - Raphael


We read Thos Edison made light. But in Sun. school they said you did it. So I bet he stoled your idea. - Sincerely, Donna


Please send Dennis Clark to a different camp this year. - Peter


Dear God, Maybe Cain and Abel would not kill each other so much if they had their own rooms. It works with my brother. - Larry


Dear God, I do not think anybody could be a better God. I just want you to know but I am not just saying that because you are God. - Charles


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