Does God reveal his nature both through general (natural) and special revelation?
On some level, both the cosmological and the teleological arguments assume general revelation is valid. Psalms 19:1-4, Job 38:1-42:6 as well as Romans 1:18-20 are examples of Bible writers applying “general revelation” as reason to believe in God. I. Cosmological Argument Aristotle: The “unmoved mover” but he assumed the physical universe had existed forever, so applied it in a different way Avicenna, Muslim philosopher 980-1037 AD A more modern version Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) gave the modern version of this argument. The cosmological argument could be stated as follows: Every finite and contingent being has a cause. Nothing finite and contingent can cause itself. A causal chain cannot be of infinite length. Therefore, a First Cause (or something that is not an effect) must exist. God is the uncaused cause. We know that everything in the universe has a cause, so what caused the universe? “That the universe exists is perhaps the greatest mystery of all.” Why does anything exist? Leib
