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I believe in God because I think its the best explanation for the existence of our universe with it's laws. A being outside of our current space/time setting our universe into motion just makes sense to me.
That's essentially the TAG argument.
Interesting, I've never heard of that term but I am partial towards the Maliki madhab which is highly influenced by the Asha'ri and I see them listed there.
I'll be sure to look into this later.
If our universe requires a being outside it as an origin, why shouldn't that being itself require another being of even further outside as an origin, and so on?
Scientists believed this for the longest time, but I've recently seen a documentary explaining that, at the very bottom, there's a giant koala bear. Apparently they're still trying to determine why it's smiling.
TAG addresses infinite regress. A transcendent being functions outside of our physical and metaphysical constraints.
By nature of being outside of our universe they are not subject to the same constants/restraints or our same concepts of space and time.
But I'm not necessarily saying it's a requirement. That's just the line of thought I lean towards personally at this point.
TAG addresses this in the way you describe. A transcendent being is not constrained by our physics or metaphysics.