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   From: nomail@invalid.invalid   
      
   In article ,   
   twang@the.noodle says...   
   >   
   > Skeeter wrote:   
   > > In article , sylvia@email.invalid says...   
   > > > On 08-Apr-23 2:52 pm, Michael McLean wrote:   
   > > > >   
   > > > > Everything is the consequence of something.  No thing can create   
   itself.   
   > > > >   It needs a cause.  Thus eternal God or nothing would be here. No   
   thing   
   > > > > can "be" before it is in order to bring itself into "being."   
   > > >   
   > > > So, God can be eternal, but nothing else can, because.....?   
   > > >   
   > > > Sylvia.   
   > >   
   > > He created it?   
   >   
   > Could God create an eternal universe if he wanted to?   
      
   It wouldn't be eternal if it was created.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)