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The cosmological argument mainly say's that which acts has potent ency until it is actualized by another entity mainly a good example a cup of coffee has potential to go from potentially hot to actually hot it in itself was not always hot without first being in some potency.
We can use this for everything that exists not just back into the infinite past or infinite potent future but here and know and we have everything going from potency to actuality till we start going down in a vertical chain till we get logically to a first point or else you are getting infinite amounts of causes from something inside potent-ency and actuality until eventually you get infinite regress know while mathematical infinities are possible actual infinities are impossible in thought infinity as a concept means it's so big it has no identity so infinite regress is out.
To stop this vicious cycle we must have a being a unmoved actualizer who is not contingent within the set of potency and actuality who is already actualized by nothing he just is a monad that which exists but it not contained or made by anything.
The main issue here this argument is assuming we live in a linear eternal universe or finite universe doesn't really matter it is under the assumption the past no longer exists it has been it is passed the future is mere potential rather than actual even if it is determined it is still in a state of potentiality. This is the block a model of time for reference.
The problem arises here if block b model of time is true this would mean the past present and even the future already exist and that the illusion of know is no longer true and time is simultaneous it is happening know back into the infinite past and into the infinite comptaibalist future the future then is no longer potent-ency and potentiality but rather the future is moving onto the present the present is moving onto the past and the past is moving onto the future.
At this stage their would be no potency or actuality as again the future exists simultaneously with the present so all potent-ency goes out the window everything is know an actual the reason we have potentency is cause of the conception of the future being purely potential rather than purely existing know.
So if this theory exists it's a death blow to any religion so it's really a coin toss weather god exists or not really depends on weather or not reality makes sense if we can truly trust reality or if it is a unintelligible mess again only time and evidence will tell.
We can use this for everything that exists not just back into the infinite past or infinite potent future but here and know and we have everything going from potency to actuality till we start going down in a vertical chain till we get logically to a first point or else you are getting infinite amounts of causes from something inside potent-ency and actuality until eventually you get infinite regress know while mathematical infinities are possible actual infinities are impossible in thought infinity as a concept means it's so big it has no identity so infinite regress is out.
To stop this vicious cycle we must have a being a unmoved actualizer who is not contingent within the set of potency and actuality who is already actualized by nothing he just is a monad that which exists but it not contained or made by anything.
The main issue here this argument is assuming we live in a linear eternal universe or finite universe doesn't really matter it is under the assumption the past no longer exists it has been it is passed the future is mere potential rather than actual even if it is determined it is still in a state of potentiality. This is the block a model of time for reference.
The problem arises here if block b model of time is true this would mean the past present and even the future already exist and that the illusion of know is no longer true and time is simultaneous it is happening know back into the infinite past and into the infinite comptaibalist future the future then is no longer potent-ency and potentiality but rather the future is moving onto the present the present is moving onto the past and the past is moving onto the future.
At this stage their would be no potency or actuality as again the future exists simultaneously with the present so all potent-ency goes out the window everything is know an actual the reason we have potentency is cause of the conception of the future being purely potential rather than purely existing know.
So if this theory exists it's a death blow to any religion so it's really a coin toss weather god exists or not really depends on weather or not reality makes sense if we can truly trust reality or if it is a unintelligible mess again only time and evidence will tell.
