Simple Apologetic Argument - Cosmological Argument (Causation)

 Apologists sometimes over complicate arguments however, sometimes they are very simple. 

The Apologetic Cosmological Argument is a way of explaining why we believe that God exists based on the existence of the universe. It goes like this:

Everything has a cause: We observe that everything in the universe has a cause. For example, a tree grows because it was planted, a cake is baked because someone mixed ingredients, and so on.

The universe exists: We see that the universe itself exists. It's the grandest thing we know, including all galaxies, stars, planets, and everything on Earth.

So, the universe must have a cause: Since everything has a cause, it makes sense to think that the universe, being the biggest thing we know, also had a cause.

The cause of the universe is God: This is where the argument connects to the idea of God. The Apologetic Cosmological Argument says that the cause of the universe must be something incredibly powerful and outside of the universe itself. Many people call this cause "God."

So, in simple terms, this argument says that because everything in the world has a cause, the universe must have a cause too, and that cause is what we call God. It's a way some people use to explain why they believe in God's existence based on the existence of the universe.

The leap presented in this argument that many people especially those that argue against God, is; "just because there is a cause it doe not mean God".

From my personal perspective, when considering this matter, the apologetic standpoint asserts that although one could raise objections, the sole reasonable conclusion points to "something immensely powerful, beyond the constraints of time, and outside the boundaries of the created universe." Without any other defining term to describe this entity, it becomes only logical to refer to it as God, representing the force responsible for the creation of everything.