Q&A: What Is the Benefit of the Cosmological Argument?
What Is the Benefit of the Cosmological Argument?
Question
1. What exactly are they trying to prove and gain here? Even if we prove that there is a first cause, and call it God, there is still a long way to go before saying that this is an entity with will and morality that speaks with human beings. In my opinion, the Rabbi addressed this a bit in the booklet, but I would be glad if he could expand on it.
Answer
I did indeed address this at length. It is true that there is still a long way to go, but every journey begins with the first step. This is the first step, which proves that there is a first cause. After that, one moves on toward the further conclusions: that He planned the world, gave the Torah, demanded morality, and so on. I explained in the notebooks why this step also projects onto the steps that follow it as well (in order to reject the argument of the celestial teapot).
Discussion on Answer
That is an imprecise formulation of the moral argument. See the fourth notebook, Part 3.
Maybe this argument should focus on the human being: that there is an emanator of human consciousness, and then the path to a God who commands morality is easier.