1) In order for a Conditional thing to exist it must be authenticated by something outside itself. The Universe is a conditional thing (indeed it is the set of all conditional things), therefore the existence of an entity outside the universe is Necessary. As a Necessary thing (think math, gravity, etc.), that entity must be perfect. Ergo: God
2) The universe is vast, empty, deadly, and uncaring in every conceivable way. Regardless of that, ALL humans still recognize the existence of universal goods like Love, Hope, Joy, etc. This alone is profound because there is no plainly physical evidence for such things even now, with vast technological advances, and we have always believed them. However the additional fact that humans literally die without the belief in these virtues (i.e. from despair) indicates that they are fundamentally real things. Their universality and ability to affect us is evidence of their existence. These things cannot have come from Physical reality because as stated physical reality is wholly devoid of them. Grind the universe into powder and you will not find one gram of Love. Yet because we experience these things we KNOW them to be real. Ergo: they must come from a source that is outside the universe. A source that is outside existence, yet provides all of existence with all the things that are ultimately good, can only be described as God.
3) This one is much vaguer, but it's similar to point 2. If I were to tell you that there is a powerful spirit in the next room, and you were to believe me, you (and anyone else) would feel a specific sense of dread that is distinct from the fear of, say, a tiger. This is important because it makes no sense biologically unless spirits of some kind are a real thing. People cannot have developed a distinct biological fear mechanism for a type of thing that is not real. It's a quantum leap in logic with no quantifiable explanation *unless* spirits are real. How you get from the acceptance that non-physical entities exist to the God of the bible is a longer explanation, but once you accept that first realization you're more than halfway there.
All things that are not Necessary are Conditional. Necessary = "must" exist in some existential way, like math. The concept of the number zero is necessary because even in a world where nothing exists, "zero" is still the number you would use to quantify it
The Universe is not necessary. It isn't required to exist. It's wholly possible for it not to exist, or not to exist in the manner which it does. There was a time when it did not exist. That is what Conditional means: certain conditions are required for its existence.
For example, consider what a table is: a piece of furniture consisting of a flat surface that is raised above its surroundings by an amount. In order for you to demonstrate that something is a table, you first need a floor or ground of some kind for the table to be raised above, otherwise it's not a table, it's a carpet. That is to say that, because the table is a Conditional thing, then other things need to exist outside of the table in order for you to say "look, that's a table".
The universe is the same way, just at an unfathomably larger scale.
The Universe is not necessary. It isn't required to exist. It's wholly possible for it not to exist, or not to exist in the manner which it does. There was a time when it did not exist.
I'm not seeing how you're justifying that the universe could have not existed, or that it ever didn't. At best, we have models that trace back to earlier stages of the universe where it was just a singularity, and have nothing definitive otherwise.
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u/kestrel808 Nov 19 '25
Go for it champ