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The parent is clearly not invoking "uncaused cause," since the parent literally says: > all death is ultimately caused by sin So unless you're saying the big

• beaconstudios 5y ago
  That's not quite what the uncaused cause means. The uncaused cause is the answer to the question "if every effect has a cause, then where did the cause-effect chain begin?" - or in simpler terms, "what was the first thing that happened?" Christians would say God, scientists would say the big bang (or something even before that, it's basically unknowable). They're not even mutually exclusive as you could say that the big bang is the means by which God created the universe, or any other origination story you can come up with. The uncaused cause says nothing about later cause-effect pairs, only the originating cause.
  • viklove 5y ago
    > all death is ultimately caused by sin Care to explain this statement to me then? Seems pretty clear to me, but you seem to be interpreting it very differently.
    • beaconstudios 5y ago
      I mean I don't want to put words in somebody else's mouth, but my interpretation as a non-practicing Christian knowing just a bit about Christian theology would be that death originates from humans being cast out of the garden of Eden, which was due to the original sin of eating from the Tree of Knowledge. I think the parent edited their original comment as there was some stuff in there directly referencing God as the original cause before and that seems to be gone now.