Self-existence, in its turn, establishes this being as first cause. If nothing brought this being into being, and we recognize that everything we see, know, or experience must have been caused by something, then we must find in this god-being our first cause. He is, shall we say, the prime mover. He is the answer for every why we may think to ask. He is the answer to every how. We may, and should even expect to discover rules that describe the how of particular phenomena in creation. Certainly, we understand how procreation functions, and we have our ideas as to how species develop, how land-masses develop and shift, and so on. We are able to discern the mathematical rules that govern the motions of planets and stars. We can even posit our theories of where this all came from. But, what we cannot descry, no matter how extensive our study, and how careful our calculation, is the origin beyond which there is no longer a preceding action to be found.
Even if I choose to accept the idea proposed in the Big Bang theory, even if we are able to discover the so-called god particle from which all matter somehow proceeds, we still arrive at something that requires a precedent. There remains the question of, well, where did that come from, or what caused it to occur? We are not yet at first cause. Only in a self-existent, utterly sovereign god being do we arrive at a first cause at which we can stop and say, here is where it all starts.
