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Greetings H2H,
As humans we want to know the answer to every question, but when it comes to God there are just some things we cannot know. He gives us proof of His existance by His creation,
There is something missing here: the argument that the universe is a creation.
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it is obvious everything has a purpose.
Or that some people project their purposes onto everything.
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It is scientifically impossible for nothing to create everything.
It is not scientifically required for the universe to be created at all.
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If nothing created everything, then the "nothing" isn’t nothing. It is something, because it had the amazing ability to create everything. Only an unscientific ignoramus would hold to the thought that nothing created everything. We have the dilemma of having everything, so we therefore have to come to the conclusion that something made it.
Or we can conjecture the same about the universe that theists conjecture about their God: that it has always existed and was not made by something else.
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Whatever it was, it had to be non-material (unseen), eternal (without beginning or end), and it had to be omnipotent (have the amazing ability to create everything from nothing).
It needed not be eternal (because it might itself have been created) nor omnipotent (all we could conclude is that it was able to create this universe).
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If the professing atheist concedes to such basic logic (which he must or he reveals that he is unscientific and unintelligent), then he’s not an atheist. He is in truth an agnostic ("One who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism."). He is someone who believes that there was a creative force that brought everything into existence,
As a theist, you should ask yourself which creative force is responsible for the existence of your God (even if said existence is eternal).
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It is not wrong to have questions about God's existance but our inability to understand all His ways sometimes causes us to stumble.
Alternative scenario: the various self-contradictions in concepts like omnipotence and omniscience should make us believe that such a being does not exist.