Cosmos Body of God

COSMOS THE BODY OF GOD: ISA PURUSHA TATVA
M.M.NINAN
The universe exists and
Therefore
(2) The universe has a beginning of its existence.
Therefore:
(3) The universe has a cause of its existence.
(4) That cause we define as God.
Therefore:
(5) God exists.
A similar paradox arises if the past is infinite. If there exists an infinite past, then if we were to assign a
number to each past moment then every real number (i.e. every postive integer) would be assigned to
some moment. There would therefore be no unassigned number to be assigned to the present moment
as it passes into the past. However, by reassigning the numbers such that moment number one becomes
moment number two, and moment number two becomes moment number three, and so on, we could
free up moment number one to be assigned to the present. If the past is infinite, therefore, then there
both is and is not a free number to be assigned to the present as it passes into the past.
That such a paradox results from the assumption that the past is infinite, it is claimed, demonstrates
that it is not possible that that assumption is correct. The past, it seems, cannot be infinite, because it is
not possible that there be an infinite number of past moments. If the past cannot be infinite, then the
universe must have a beginning. This is the first mathematical argument for the second premise of
the kalam cosmological argument.
The Impossibility of an Actual Infinite created by Successive Addition
The second mathematical argument for the claim that the universe has a beginning draws on the idea
that an actual infinite cannot be created by successive addition. If one begins with a number, and
repeatedly adds one to it, one will never arrive at infinity. If one has a heap of sand, and repeatedly
adds more sand to it, the heap will never become infinitely large. Taking something finite and
repeatedly adding finite quantities to it will never make it infinite. Actual infinites cannot be created
by successive addition.
The past has been created by successive addition. The past continuously grows as one moment
after another passes from the future into the present and then into the past. Every moment that
is now past was once in the future, but was added to the past by the passage of time.
If actual infinites cannot be created by successive addition, and the past was created by successive
addition, then the past cannot be an actual infinite. The past must be finite, and the universe must
therefore have had a beginning. This is the second mathematical argument for the second premise of
the kalam cosmological argument.
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