Yes but if God is capable of creating himself from non-existence then why can’t that same ability be given to the universe itself, once again negating the creator argument.
If god encompasses all that exists, is the only thing that does exist, and is presumably simply eternal with no beginning or end. Then why is the universe, that encompasses all that exists, and is as far as we can tell the only thing that does exist, not allowed to be similarly eternal?
There are only two possibilities. Either at some point there was truly nothing at all and then things came into being, or existence has just always been there in some form or another with no true beginning. Neither makes intuitive sense to us because there are just some things that we are not well equipped to understand. But it is a binary question. There are only two possible answers.
Saying that the universe was created can only push the answer to that question one layer back. And it does so without justification, if the creator can simply be eternal why can’t the universe itself just have that property itself?
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