Even granting a necessary first cause, the inference from 'necessary being' to 'personal, omnipotent God' requires bridging premises about intentionality and power that the argument's structure cannot supply.
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The idea that everything that exists must have been caused by something, and that there must be an ultimate cause at the beginning of the chain that didn't itself need to be caused by anything else.
omnipotent(Used in the context of arguing about whether multiple omnipotent beings could coexist.)
A being whose will is never thwarted; a being capable of bringing about any willed outcome.