Rita on X: “Nothing created God. Think of candles being lit, every flame comes from another flame, one lights the next and so on. If you follow that chain back you eventually need a flame that didn’t come from another candle or else nothing would ever be lit. That first flame is God. Everything else is “lit” into existence but God is existence itself, he doesn’t need to be created because He isn’t one more thing among the others–He’s the uncaused source that makes anything possible at all.”
But there is no beginning and no end. No “first” and no “last”. The universe is circular. The flame was always there and will always be there. Heraclitus even said the world is fire. God is simply the brightest flame. The flame that powers all the other flames.
Heraclitus: “This world-order (kosmos), the same for all, no god nor man did create, but it ever was and is and will be: ever-living fire, kindling in measures and being quenched in measures.”
The world may have not been “created” but its components can be shaped, the ebb and flow of its streams designed. Streams which were perhaps inferred by Thales, the founder of philosophy, and made him conclude that water was the basic element of the universe. I’m ending this post with a little bit of water to quench this little flame in this little candle that is this post.
The Stillest 