First Cause

First Cause: “Everything must have a cause” is false. However, a first cause of past time had to exist because the hypothesis of infinite past time contradicts the constitutive nature of time necessary to prevent contradictions in history. (If there is no starting point then there cannot be a before and after the starting point) Thus, a first uncaused cause that transcends temporality is necessary for time to have intelligibility. There must be at least one uncaused cause. There can only be one uncaused cause (uncaused = first, by definition of “first” there can be only one first). Everything else besides the one uncaused cause, must be caused.