For classical theists, God's greatness is not about moral excellence or based on various intuitions people have about “great-making properties.” God does not even have properties, properly understood.
Every effect has a cause and often there are multiple causes for a specific event or series of related events. The effect/event must somehow exist within its causes.
So if there is an initial cause for all that we see, everything that exists must be within this original cause in some form. Otherwise what we see would partly or wholly just pop into existence from no previous source.
This is just to clarify my thoughts.
Every effect has a cause and often there are multiple causes for a specific event or series of related events. The effect/event must somehow exist within its causes.
So if there is an initial cause for all that we see, everything that exists must be within this original cause in some form. Otherwise what we see would partly or wholly just pop into existence from no previous source.