Truth Unites | Why Asking "What Caused God?" Misses the Target @TruthUnites | Uploaded 2 months ago | Updated 4 hours ago
Gavin Ortlund defends the cosmological argument for God's existence from the common objection, "if everything needs a cause, what caused God?"

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Gavin Ortlund (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is President of Truth Unites and Theologian-in-Residence at Immanuel Nashville.

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00:00 - Introduction
00:46 - (1) Responding to "What Caused God?"
07:29 - (2) The History of This Objection
12:18 - (3) The Elegance of Theism
19:28 - Emotional Implications