The God of the Boundaries Exists

    We know that the universe has boundaries.  The First Cause of the universe must be a prime mover.  If not, how could a prime mover be caused?  How can this First Cause cause the universe without moving anything?  This First Cause/Prime Mover must also be an existence source.  If not, what caused the Existence Source?  How does the First Cause exist without an existence source?  I will call this First Cause/Prime Mover/Existence Source the God of the Boundaries.  I will shorten this to GoB because I'll be using it so often.

    However, be careful to realize how little I have actually shown.  At this point, most faith traditions are consistent (but more detailed) with this conception of God.  By faith tradition, I am including everything from pantheism (God is the universe), to panentheism (God has a soul, and a body, which is the universe, and they are interdependent), to deism (God is sentient and created the universe but does not interact with the universe in any way except to keep the laws of physics running), to theism (God is sentient and takes an active loving role in creation).  To some degree, we have disproved atheism, but only if the atheist in question is very strict (denies the possibility of a first cause, prime mover, or existence source, even if that object is the universe). 

    There is only one GoB.  There is no other first cause/prime mover/existence source.  There are two logical possibilities if there is more than one.  I will discredit them both.  The first is that more than one god caused the universe.  If this is the case, we must ask how we tell these two or more gods apart.    The only way that the could be different is if they have different properties.  For example, one could be the creator and the other could be the destroyer.  There good be a god of earth, a god of fire, and a god of water.  Regardless of how many there are, they must share much more differ.  They all must exist everywhere in the universe because the universe is self consistent and homogeneous.  This is to say that they must be thoroughly mixed together.  They must all have properties of being a god of the boundaries.  They must work together perfectly to create, move, and sustain the universe.  If they did not, the greater god would win and therefore show that the lesser god is not a true god.  It is better to call them aspects of the same god than to call them different gods.  

    Therefore, there was only one god at the beginning of the universe.  Is it possible that other gods appeared later?  Even though this case appears different that the first, it has nearly the same reply.  Any god that appears must have uniform will with the original god.  They must work together perfectly to move and sustain the universe.  These multiple gods must share more than they differ.  It is better to call any changes to be changes in the original god, rather than an addition of more gods.   

    Finally, we must realize that even though GoB is the root cause of all in the universe, it is not necessarily true that GoB controls everything in the universe.  That is, even though no other can take control from GoB, there is no reason why GoB cannot give control to others (such as humans).  An analogy can help here.  You have the power to place a pen on a specific location on your desk.  If you drop the pen on your desk, you still caused the pen to arrive on your desk, but you did not control its final resting place.  The laws of physics controlled that.  If we have free will GoB causes many things about our lives, but we control the rest.

    Everything in the universe has GoB as its cause, which leads us to understand that nothing can exist in the universe that is greater than GoB.

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