Melinda says "I like the comment in the Criticisms of the Causal Argument...#3- "perhaps the universe has always been there and its existence is just a brute fact with no explanation". But would that mean there is not God....no one to explain all of this to me?"

I looked at it more along the lines of an explanation that God does exist. There can be no complete explanation for God or his existence. There is only faith. He is much too big for our minds to comprehend.

I can more fully understand the cosmological arguments. It is becoming more clear to me that in most cases, I need hard core evidence of things to feel comfortable. I have a hard time following abstract ideas and arguments. (I cannot fathom why I can so easily accept the intangibility of God and his existence and not be more open to the Ontological argument!) I get lost in vocabulary of philosophy. When broken down to the basic sentence structure, I can get the point, but when I have to spend more time looking up the meaning of words than I do reading the text, I get frustrated.