Q&A: God
God
Question
I saw that the Rabbi answered someone regarding infinite regress, which must be stopped at some minimal point in light of the principle of causality.
I also saw in another question, or maybe the same one, that you said you are not concerned with the question of whether God changes.
My question is this: if the regress has to stop in some way, then how can God change? After all, whatever activates Him for the sake of change is a prior cause, so the regress does not end with Him, and it follows from this that He is not God. The God of the cosmological proof, as far as I understand, in principle cannot change. And if He can change, then He is not God.
Thank you for your answers
Answer
You are assuming that He changes causally. He does not. Just as a person chooses, and his choice is not the result of a cause.
Discussion on Answer
I’ve written a lot about choice. Read one of the articles. That is its definition.
I understand, thank you very much.
I wasn’t able to understand. A person’s choice is not the result of a cause? How do we know that? Why give up the principle of causality in this case?