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In light of all the evidence for the beginning of the universe, we must acknowledge that the Beginner must be outside the space-time universe.

When God is suggested as the Beginner, atheists are quick to ask this ancient question, “Then who made God? If everything needs a cause, then God needs a cause too!”

As we have discussed, the Law of Causality is the very foundation of science. Science is the search for causes, and that search is based on our repetitive and consistent observations that everything that has a beginning has a cause. So why then does not God need a cause?

Because many unbelievers misunderstand the Law of Causality.

The Law of Causality does not say that everything needs a cause. It says that everything that comes to be need a cause.

God did not come to be. No one made God.

As an eternal being, God did not have a beginning, so he did not need a cause.

Many atheists will protest, “but wait if you have an eternal God, then I can have an eternal universe. After all, if the universe is eternal, then it did not have a cause.”

It may be logically possible that the universe to be eternal and therefore did not have a cause. In fact, it is one of the two possibilities: either the universe, or something outside the universe is eternal.

The problem for the atheist is while an eternal universe may be logically possible that the universe, it does not seem to be actually possible.

Based on the insurmountable amount of evidence previously referenced, the option of an eternal universe is ruled out.

By ruling out one of the options, we are left with the option—something outside the universe is eternal.

So what is this First Cause like?

One might say that we need to rely on the Bible or some other religious revelation in order to answer the question, but we do not need any religion’s scriptures to answer the question.

What are the characteristics of the First Cause based on the evidence accumulated so far?