I beg to differ, you've proved nothing. You made a case for a creator but the nature of that creator is completely unknown. You have never even attempted to connect that creator to the God of the Bible.
Now you disappoint me,
alang. Though we occasionally rib one another, I thought we were on good terms. We've always been cordial to each other, agreed to disagree without rancor.
You acknowledge the logical necessity of an eternally existing entity. After all, how could existence have just popped into existence out of an ontological nothingness, or caused itself to exist
before it existed? Absurdity! Indeed, how could nonexistence exist in the first place?
You also acknowledge that the eternally existing entity cannot be of a material substance. Yes? No?
I'm well aware of the fact that you keep asking me to prove that the God of the Bible is in fact the eternally existing entity of necessity as opposed to other supposed candidates. Here's the problem,
alang, you, not I, keep walking away from the discourse.
For the moment and for the sake of objectivity, forget about the idea of God altogether. Let's do the Socratic method.
How could the eternally existing entity, whatever it may be, possibly be of a material substance when an actual infinite in the spacetime continuum is an absurdity?
The nature of the ultimate ground of existence is completely unknown, you say?!
The imperatives of logic and mathematics don't tell us that the ultimate ground of existence is necessarily (1) of an eternally self-subsistent essence and (2) of an immaterial essence?
That's weird.
What else do the imperatives of logic and mathematics tell us about the nature of the ultimate ground of existence?
You don't know. You've never even bothered to think about it. Every time we get to this point in the discourse, the point at which the imperatives prove that the ultimate ground of existence is necessarily immaterial, you shut down the discourse. You close your mind like a slammed shut door.
Why?