An A Priori Argument for a Personal First Cause in a Beginningless Universe

This paper provides a step-by-step a priori argument for the conclusion that there is a first event in the universe and that this event was brought about by an uncaused and beginningless libertarian, non-physical mind. The argument is predicated on four assumptions, namely that (i) the universe does not have a beginning, (ii) the A-theory of time is true, (iii) the temporal series of past events in the universe is finite, and (iv) a causal chain of simultaneous events must have a beginning.