Who Created God? The Answer That Will Change How You Think - Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair

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Who created God? Scientists say that every effect must have a cause. Now, that's fine until you get back to the beginning, the origin of the universe itself. So, what caused that? This isn't just a problem for science, it's a challenge for every believing person. If your faith is just based on because I believe, it's vulnerable to intellectual challenge like who created God? If everything has a cause, then what caused the first cause? What caused God? >> [music] >> [music] >> Belief is not a leap in the dark. Belief is not at loggerheads with intellect or science. It's the natural and inescapable continuum of science. The Rambam Maimonides at the very beginning of Hilkhot Yesodei HaTorah writes, "The foundation of all foundations, the pillar of all wisdom is to know that there exists a first existent, not to believe, [music] to know." How can you know that? The answer is we need to make a paradigm shift about the way we think about existence itself.

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1. 0:00Who created God? Scientists say that every effect must have a cause. Now, that's fine until…
2. 0:30>> [music] >> Belief is not a leap in the dark. Belief is not at loggerheads…
3. 1:00existence itself. There are things that come into existence, physical entities which are bound by time…
4. 1:30brought into existence. But, not all realities are like that. God is not an existence within…

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