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#14 — William Lane Craig | The Kalam Cosmological Argument

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The Infinite Being Creates the Universe

An infinite being creates a finite thing. That doesn't seem to make sense unless the infinite being can change its nature in some sense. How do you get a cause with a beginning from a cause which is permanent? Yes. If the cause is truly sufficient for its effect, then if the cause is there permanently, the effect ought to be there permanently. And so what I would say is that this timelessly existing free agent freely wills to create the universe. Time comes into being at that moment and this being enters into time at that moment.

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