JONATHAN CAHN
PROPHETIC VOICE, SPIRITUAL LEADER, AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
Jonathan Cahn has been cited as one of the top spiritual leaders to have radically impacted our world in modern times. He has spoken at the United Nations, on Capitol Hill, to Members of Congress, and to millions around the world. Every one of his books starting with The Harbinger to The Dragon’s Prophecy and The Avatar have been New York Times bestsellers. He is recognized as a prophetic voice for our times. His Jonathan Cahn Official Youtube Channel has received over 100 Million views. He leads Beth Israel at the Jerusalem Center in Wayne, New Jersey - and Hope of the World ministry (hopeoftheworld.org), a world outreach of God’s word and compassion to the world’s most needy.
The Cause of All Causes
JONATHAN CAHN
Central to the function of reason and rationality is the law of cause and effect, namely, that for every effect there must be a cause or reason. Therefore, there must be a reason for existence, a cause to the universe. To argue that the universe always existed is to say that it has no cause. It would then become a causeless effect. It would, thus, violate the law of rationality, of cause and effect. It would thus be, by definition, irrational. If the universe has no cause, then it could not exist. Yet it does.
We are then left with only one other rational possibility, namely, that the universe has a cause. If so, then what is it? To identify its cause with an event such as the “Big Bang,” leaves us with an intractable problem–If it all began with an explosion, who lit the match? Without the “lighter” or initial agent, the Big Bang or any supposed beginning event has no cause. If it has no cause, it could not have happened. And if it did not happen, then the universe, again, cannot exist.
Any such attempt at finding a cause for physical existence by postulating a physical event is doomed by the fact that the event, by definition, must already exist within the context of physical existence. An event that is already part of the universe cannot, by definition, explain the universe any more than any effect can explain itself. It becomes, again causeless. And that which is without cause cannot be.
Further, for any supposed beginning to take place, it needs a time and place in which to happen. But any such “when” or “where” require a physical universe that is already in existence. Before the universe, there can be no when or where and thus no cause. We, again, could not exist.
There is only one answer: the universe must have a cause, and that cause must, by definition, be something other than the universe. No effect can be caused by that which is part of the caused effect. Thus, the cause of the universe, must, by definition, be that which is other than the universe. And that which is other than the universe is beyond, outside of, and transcendent of the law of cause and effect. It is the Uncaused Cause. It is that which we call “God.”