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At February, 21th 2015, I have some of random chats with my friends from Michigan, United States.
At the day, I'm so curious about his faith, and finally, I asked him bravely....
Him : What would you like to know about this godless heathen?
Me : Why you godless heathen? -,-
Him : Theres no evidence for the existence of a god or gods
Me : Would you agree with me that just because we cannot see something with our eyes — such as our mind, gravity, magnetism, the wind — that does not mean it doesn’t exist?
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Me : Well, would you agree that nothing cannot produce something? If so, then if the universe did not exist but then came to exist, wouldn’t this be evidence of a cause beyond the universe?
Him: Then you would have to explain where god came from. Who/what created him?
Me : It's hard questions too ._.
(after thinking so long)
Me : A common argument from atheists is that if all things need a cause, then God must also need a cause. The conclusion is that if God needed a cause, then God is not God (and if God is not God, then of course there is no God). This is a slightly more sophisticated form of the basic question “Who made God?” Everyone knows that something does not come from nothing. So, if God is a “something,” then He must have a cause, right?
Your question is tricky because it sneaks in the false assumption that God came from somewhere and then asks where that might be. The answer is that the question does not even make sense. It is like asking, “What does blue smell like?” Blue is not in the category of things that have a smell, so the question itself is flawed. In the same way, God is not in the category of things that are created or caused. God is uncaused and uncreated—He simply exists. tongue emoticon
How do we know this? We know that from nothing, nothing comes. So, if there were ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence, then nothing would have ever come into existence. But things do exist. Therefore, since there could never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been in existence. That ever-existing thing is what we call God. God is the uncaused Being that caused everything else to come into existence. God is the uncreated Creator who created the universe and everything in it.
Him : well....
Him : well....
[.....and now we back to normal chat, hehe...]
