Is the Universe Eternal?

The Universe changes, and in fact, time is just what describes changes that happen one after another. Because the universe is always changing, it cannot have always existed. Indeed, nothing bound by time and change has always existed. If there were infinite weeks before this week, we would never have reached the current week. If you tried to tell an employee that he could leave after he had completed an infinite number of tasks, he would never finish.

How can time and the universe have begun then? Both exist now, clearly, but they cannot have always existed.

The answer is that whatever created time and the universe must be able to exist in the absence of them. Since we cannot have an infinite chain of beings creating beings either, clearly, something that exists of its own accord must also exist. Therefore, we have an eternal, uncreated entity. To be the timeless original which once had nothing but itself to cause any action, it must have free will; and if it has free will and creates logically consistent things such as our universe, it must have a mind (there are multiple ways to prove this). If this is news to you, alarm bells should be ringing in your head: "Was I wrong about everything?" The answer is yes if you were not a monotheist, but I promise you that this means better news than you could ever hope for.

I strongly encourage visiting the Christianity page or Proofs of God's Existence. Strike while the iron is hot.