Browse / Mike Winger / Idea

Closing the gap problem in cosmological arguments: a necessary being with limited properties would require an explanation for those limits, but there can be no deeper explanation — therefore the necessary being must be unlimited/infinite in value (i.e., God)

YouTube Atheism vs YouTube Christianity 00:44:01 – 00:45:34

Q&A question for Cameron about the gap problem in cosmological arguments

Cameron addresses the "gap problem" — why should the necessary being identified by the cosmological argument be the personal God of theism rather than some abstract entity? His proposed route: if the necessary being has limited value/properties, those limits require an explanation, but we have already reached the explanatory foundation — there can be no deeper explanation. This leads to a contradiction unless the being is unlimited. Therefore the necessary being must be infinite in value — which is the classical conception of God as a perfect being.

Your Tags

Personal labels you apply to any item — separate from system topics. Tags are shared across all databases. Visit /tags to browse all your tags.

...more

Ask Claude about this