The CC Kalam Cosmological Argument

1:There is a first cause

2:If there is a first cause,God exists

3:God exists

Defense of premise 1:

The grim reaper paradox:

Stipulations:

1:Fred is alive at the beginning

2:Fred can only die through the motion of a grim reaper's scythe

3:Unless they are in the act of killing Fred,the reapers aren't moving.

4:Once dead,Fred stays dead.

An infinite number of Grim reapers are set to kill Fred till midnight

Grim reaper #1: kill Fred if he is alive at 1 am

Grim reaper #2: Kill Fred if he is alive at 12:30 am

Grim reaper #3: Kill Fred if he is alive at 12:15 am

Grim reaper #4: Kill Fred if he is alive at 12:07:30 am

Grim reaper #5: Kill Fred if he is alive at 12:03:45 am

...To infinity...

Does Fred survive this process?

No,Fred does not survive an infinite number of grim reapers to kill him.

At some point at midnight he will be killed by some grim reaper.

Which Grim Reaper killed Fred?

No grim reaper killed Fred,for any grim repaer that we pick,there's a prior grim reaper that would've already killed him.

Example: Let's say Grim reaper number 1,killed Fred at 1 am.

That's impossible since Grim Reaper number 2 was set to kill him at 12:30 am if he was still alive.

and this process can be repeated for any Grim Reaper.

It's impossible that any particular grim reaper killed him,thus we arrived at an explicit contradiction:Fred is dead,and Fred is not dead.

Since we know that contradictions like this are impossible,it follows,that the grim reaper scenario is impossible because it ends in a contradiction.