But if you mean the kind whose instances follow one after another, it has no beginning and is not originated. Rather, the kind is eternal, although every individual instance of it is originated.

You have offered no proof whatsoever that this is impossible. You have merely stated that none of these events is eternal, which is conceded and is not in dispute.

You said: ‘If past events have a beginning and a starting point, and have come to an end, then your claim that they have always existed, one before another, is impossible, because whatever has always existed is eternal and has no beginning.’

The answer to you is: each individual event has a beginning and a starting point. But why do you say that, if this is so, the claim that they have always existed, one before another, is impossible, on the grounds that whatever has always existed is eternal and has no beginning?

The person making this claim says: ‘What has always existed is only the kind whose instances follow one after another. As for each individual event, no rational person says that it has always existed.’

Thus, whoever says, ‘If past events have a beginning and a starting point, and have come to an end, then your claim that they have always existed, one before another, is impossible,’ should be answered as follows:

They do not say that past events as a kind have a beginning and a starting point. For whatever has always existed, one thing before another, can only be eternal, having always existed. Rather, they say that each individual event has a beginning and a starting point; they do not say of any such event that it has always existed.

Thus, that of which they say, ‘It has always existed,’ is not that of which they say, ‘It has a beginning