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CC014: Exploring the Contingency Argument with Dr. Josh Rasmussen (Part 1)

Capturing Christianity Podcast

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What's the Clearest?

i'm always looking for, like, what's the clearest? Ok? This is like a tool that i use in thinking about things. And one of the things that struck me as being clear is that there can't be a cause that exists outside of all that exists. So this takes us back to the puzzle, how can there be something that doesn't depend on another thing? Like merely adding up dependent things together, into an infinite stack of dependent laptops, doesn't seem to yield independent realities. You can't construct an independent reality from purely dependent things because it has no foundation inside itself. The only solution that really makes sense to me is that reality must have an total existence and

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