First Cause

“First Cause arguments”  based on the assumption that “everything must have a cause” are false. Very few metaphysicians in history were stupid enough to argue “universality of causation”.

A first cause of past time had to exist because the hypothesis of infinite past time contradicts the constitutive nature of time necessary to prevent contradictions in history. (if there is no starting point then there cannot be a before and after the starting point) Thus, a first uncaused cause that transcends temporality is necessary for time to have intelligibility.

After showing that there can be only one uncaused reality, it is easy to show that everything else in all reality must be caused. This follows by a simple disjunctive deduction (i.e. everything else besides the one uncaused reality must be caused). It is not  assumed  that there can only be one uncaused reality; it is proven

Rigorous proofs first demonstrate that there must be at least one uncaused cause (They certainly do not assume that everything must be caused). Rigorous proofs then go on to demonstrate that there can only be one uncaused cause,( uncaused = first, by definition of “first” there can be only one first) which leads inevitably to the deduction that everything else besides the one uncaused cause, must be caused.

For more details: http://magisgodwiki.org/index.php?title=God_is_Uncreated