❓Question: Christians often argue for God's existence by suggesting the universe needs an initial cause, but what caused God? 🤔

God is the unmoved mover. 🌌

You can look around 🌎 and see objects in motion. Anything that is in motion was put in motion.

Think about it like this — If you see a ball 🎾 rolling down the street, that didn't just happen. Something moved the ball.

But what about the first thing that moved? What moved that?❓

Nothing moved it. 🚫 If nothing moved it, that means it has to start from outside our creation.

This unmoved mover would be what we call God. 🙏

Nothing caused God. God simply is. We see this in his name… I AM. ✨

God existed before time, and he created time. ⏳

This idea of the unmoved mover is a “proof” for the existence of God. 🛠️

But there are also problems with this argument:

▶ It assumes time is linear with a beginning and an end. 🕐

▶ It doesn’t define who God is. ❔

While the idea of the unmoved mover is an important philosophical truth, it won’t convince somebody there is a God. 💭

It’s an idea you can use to defend belief in God. 🛡️

(Coming to belief happens through the preaching of the gospel.) 📖

The unmoved mover paints a picture 🎨 of how God works.

…He has to work from the outside-in for creation.

The Small Catechism says:

“I cannot by my own reason or strength believe in Jesus Christ, my Lord, or come to him, but the Holy Spirit has called me by the power of the gospel.” ✝️

That describes an outside working-in kind of God.

The unmoved mover comes down into creation, bleeds and dies on the cross for you. ❤️✝️

Christianity is not a do it yourself religion, but rather a God has done it religion. 🙌

The God who sets this creation in motion 🌍 sustains it.

We still do a lot of damage with sin 💔, but God, in his mercy, sustains this creation. 🌟

Contributor Rev. Harrison Goodman is the Higher Things Content Executive.

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