An Invitation to Peace

The Beginning
An Invitation to Peace
We know we had a beginning. So did everything else we have ever
seen, touched or known physically of. That means all of these things
were once non-existent and then came to be. We can call this
temporal (i.e. of time) or finite (having an end, be it of the past or of the
future). Now, for things which were first non-existent to suddenly
come into being means that they had to be brought into existence,
because something which doesn’t exist can’t bring itself into being.
(In case you think the idea of a ‘Big Bang’ explains how the universe
came to be, it still doesn’t do away with the fact that whatever it is that
went ‘bang’ to begin with had to be put into ‘infinite space’ in the first
place. So there still had to be an Originator.)
For it to have been possible, then, for every finite thing that exists to
exist means that there must have already been a Being who made it,
that is, a being brought it from not being or existing into being.
This Being must be infinite and non-temporal (always there), because
if he was non-existent to start with too, he never would have existed;
being the First, there wouldn’t have been anyone to bring him into
existence. In which case, he wouldn’t have been there to bring about
anything else into existence, and so nothing would have existed. But
things do exist. So, the existence of things means the existence of the
Originator of things. An Originator who is without beginning. An
Originator who always was.
Some people think that by saying everything was caused by something
before it which was also finite they can get away from having to accept
an Infinite Originator. Let’s think of the example of a great row of
dominoes stood perfectly upright and still. None of them can move
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