Conclusion: The Universe Has a Cause of Its Existence

Abstract

Since everything that begins to exist has a cause of its existence, and since the universe began to exist, we conclude, therefore, the universe has a cause of its existence. We ought to ponder long and hard over this truly remarkable conclusion, for it means that transcending the entire universe there exists a cause which brought the universe into being ex nihilo. If our discussion has been more than a mere academic exercise, this conclusion ought to stagger us, ought to fill us with a sense of awe and wonder at the knowledge that our whole universe was caused to exist by something beyond it and greater than it. ¹⁵⁹ For it is no secret that one of the most important conceptions of what theists mean by ‘God’ is Creator of heaven and earth.