EFFICIENT CAUSALITY

What does this argument propose?

ARGUMENTS:

• There is an efficient cause for everything nothing can be efficient cause of itself.
• It is not possible to regress to infinity in efficient causes.
• To take away the cause is to take away the effect
• If there is no first cause then there will be no others.
• Therefore, a first cause exists and He is God.

It is impossible for anything to be the efficient cause of itself, for in this case it would be prior to itself

Apart from and transcending the series or mundane of efficient causes, There is a first cause that is not caused, or an unconditioned cause and he is called God.

WITHOUT A FIRST CAUSE WHICH WE