Dear Texas Songwriter, I totally agree with you here — and with my dearest sister in Christ!
It's simply that I'm addressing my remarks to scientists, or people who purport to be scientists. I'm trying to keep the cosmological/theological implications — which they mainly reject anyway — out of the picture as much as possible. There is probably no way such folks are going to find the Alpha and Omega scientifically relevant. That's the method of my madness....
But I oh! so completely agree with the absolutely vital point you made: "the proposition is not 'Everything has a cause,' but rather, 'Everything which comes to be has a cause.'" Scientists are generally quite blind to the problems of being and existence, and their relations.
As for me, I believe that my very existence is contingent on God, that my existence is a participation in divine Being — in the I AM.
But that's why we need philosophers — and theologians. :^)
Thank you so very much for your most welcome observation!
As for me, I believe that my very existence is contingent on God, that my existence is a participation in divine Being — in the I AM.