The Mystery of Creation: Chapter 2: Who or What Created the Universe: Recap and Conclusion

Recap and Conclusion

                And so, to summarize, we have now concluded the following based on logic and evidence:

1.            Either Something is eternal or Nothing is eternal.  They are opposites, so only one can be true.

2.            If absolutely Nothing is eternal then we would not exist, for Something cannot come from Nothing. 

3.            The Eternal Something must be made up of an infinite number of finite, or limited somethings.  Because change occurs in the universe, and change requires interaction between more than one something, we know that the Eternal Something must be made up of many things, not just one, big, solid something.  Since it goes on forever, it must be made up of an eternal number of finite somethings, just like a line.

4.            All of these limited things that make up the Eternal Something must be unified.  This means that they must collectively make up one Eternal Something.  If there was division, one could and would destroy the other.

5.            If Something is eternal then whatever is eternal cannot be destroyed or it would have an end and would thus be finite.  Thus, the Eternal Something must be indestructible.

6.            To be indestructible it must be all powerful, for if something was more powerful it could be destroyed.  Thus, the Eternal Something must be Omnipotent, meaning all powerful.

7.            To be omnipotent it must be all knowing, for if something was able to hide from the Eternal Something it could surprise the Eternal Something and therefore potentially defeat the Eternal Something, making it destructible and therefore not eternal.  Thus, the Eternal Something must be Omniscient, meaning all knowing.

9.            To be omniscient it must be present everywhere throughout space, for how can one know all things if there is a place that something can go to hide from it?  Thus, the Eternal Something must be Omnipresent, meaning present everywhere.

10.          If it is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent then it must be highly intelligent.  After all, if something is all knowing it must have a high level of intelligence. 

                What is intelligence?  It is the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one’s environment or the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.  And so, in order to be all powerful a something must be able to apply the knowledge it gathers to prevent itself from being defeated. 

                Besides this, it is clear that the eternal something must also be perfect.  This means that it cannot make mistakes.  Making a mistake would leave it exposed to potential defeat and destruction.  Therefore, to be indestructible, the eternal something must not be able to make mistakes.

                The eternal something also must be of one mind, meaning it might be made up of many, many parts, but all of these parts are all connected by one, central, collective conscious and intelligence.  After all, if it was not one thing with one mind then it would not be present everywhere, for someone else or something else would be present where it is not. 

                Thus, it would not be all knowing because someone or something else could hide something from it, and it would not be all powerful because someone or something else could contest its power and authority.  If this is true then it would not be indestructible because someone or something else could then destroy it because it would have boundaries and limits.  Only that which has boundaries and limits can be destroyed.  Therefore, it must exist, alone, by itself, for all eternity as the only indestructible, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent thing with one mind and one consciousness.

                Since we exist, we can then conclude that this Eternal Something must not simply be a self-sustaining entity but an entity that creates and sustains other things.  Since we are not eternal and all that exists around us is not eternal, we can conclude that the Eternal Something creates other things, all of which are finite. 

                After all, an infinite line can be divided into many finite segments, but an infinite line cannot create another infinite line.  Thus, it only makes sense that only an infinite something can create finite things and it cannot and does not create other infinite things.  It also makes sense, then, that all that the infinite something makes it makes within itself and all things are sustained by the infinite something.  It is, then, the giver of all life and the sustainer of all life for all that it creates.  All energy and all matter come from this Eternal Something.  It is the source.

                If this is true then we must conclude that the Eternal Something experiences desires.  If it was merely self-sustaining then it would never create anything else.  It would only sustain itself forever throughout eternity and nothing else would ever exist.  Since it has created other things that are not connected to its collective conscious mind, for we are not connected to this Eternal Something’s mind and do not know the Eternal Something’s thoughts, it must be that it desired to create other things and to sustain them.  This is how we can conclude that it has desires.  Also, if nothing exists unless it has created it, how could we have desires unless this Eternal Something first had desires.

                Again, this is like the line and the line segments.  The Eternal Something merely takes a part of itself, divides it into something new and names it something new; just as a Mathematician might take a line and put points on it and call it something new instead of a line.  The Eternal Something gives life to it and sustains it, but it has called the newly created thing by a new name.  It has given it a new definition and new properties, making it different from the Eternal Something.

                Since we have emotions and we are created by this Eternal Something we can then conclude that the Eternal Something must have emotions as well.  After all, how can it create something it has no knowledge of?  Only by having emotions can it create emotions.  Besides, even if it could create something it has no knowledge of, why would it desire to do this?  If it ever did create something it was not knowledgeable about it could destroy itself and thus make it not eternal.  Therefore, it would not, and logically could not, create emotions in us unless it had emotions (nor could it logically create anything it did not know about).

                We now have the ability to arrive at our ultimate objective.  Our initial question was, “Who or what created the universe as it is today?”  The only answer is God.  After all, the definition of God is that He is one intelligent being who exists throughout all time who is indestructible, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, perfect, who has emotions and desires, and who created, and still creates, and sustained, and still sustains, all things.