Causal Finitism

Causal Finitism (=CF) is a new and potent way in which to argue for Kalam-style Cosmological Arguments.  CF holds that events with infinite causal histories are impossible.  If this is so, then it’s an easy step to hold that the universe does not have a past infinity of events.

CF is usually argued for using Grim Reaper style paradoxes.

CF seems like a better route for establishing the finitude of the past given that it’s consistent with my preferred views of time.  The way in which WLC argues for the finitude of the past, using Hilbert’s Hotel, seems to rule out eternalism cum infinite after-life, for given both of these commitments it seems that an actual infinite would obtain and a fortiori be possible, contrary to the Hilbert Hotel style arguments.  These considerations push WLC towards a particular view of time:  The after-life is a mere potential infinite and never an actual one.  But this proposal doesn’t work on eternalism.

CF, on the other hand, is consistent with eternalism cum infinite after-life.  At no point in the after-life is there an event that has an infinite causal history.  

Side note:  We are not timeless in the afterlife.  We will have resurrected bodies that presumably can move and interact, which seems to imply time intervals.  We will presumably have a flow of consciousness too, with thoughts before and after, which seems to imply time intervals.