Aseity: God

Aseity is the concept that something can exist uncaused by anything else. The term itself was coined by Christian theologians in the Middle Ages but the concept exists in Judaism and Islam and predates Christ, first appearing in written history with the ancient Greeks. Pythagoras and Plato believed certain abstract, non-physical concepts or ideals existed outside of and independently of our physical world and are ‘uncaused’. These include things like numbers & mathematics (Pythagoras’ ‘forms’) and essences of things like ‘redness’ (Plato’s Forms). Parmenides simply argued that everything had a cause and ‘nothing could come from nothing’ and therefore existence itself had to be eternal and uncreated.

Aseity, as was said, was coined by Christian theologians and denotes a property of God that She does not require a cause, that He is self-created or is more akin to a perfect circle - something that is wholly different than objects in the physical world and is not subject to physical laws. Therefore there is nothing contradictory about God existing independently.

In relation to the Cosmological Argument, it’s line of reasoning says: all physical things have a cause, the universe is a physical thing therefore it had a cause. What caused the Big Bang? The Cosmological Argument says God. Thinking people then ask where God came from and the answer is She is self-created. This is not a satisfactory answer for Atheists but it is coherent. I would say that Christians have a sufficient answer in the sense of being logically sound to the questions of “where did the Big Bang come from”” and “where did God come from"?”