I Am An Atheist

An unbelieving man once encountered a Christian & questioned him; "who created God?". The Christian answered truthfully; "No one created God. He is eternal; He has no beginning and has no end.". The unbelieving man counted His words ludicrous and ridiculed him away, but the christian called him back & spoke; " you have asked, 'who created God', and I have answered you truthfully yet you scorn me. God created the human mind so do not expect that you will be able to grasp even the a fraction of a quarter of His being. And if I chose to lie to you instead, saying "yes, God was created", you would go on again and ask, "who created the being who created God?"; and if I were to go on again & answer that to your expectation, you would ask even further, "who created the being whom created the being whom created the being whom created God?"; and then I shall answer that to your expectation, and on and on and on, we would continue, until we shall both die. And when in death, shall your knowledge profit your soul in anyway, saving it from hell? - since your biased heart sought after knowledge rather than life eternal instead - and have I not so much as damned my soul to hell too in that I sought to please your ears, telling you lies?

Indeed there is knowledge abundant, but in knowledge there is right and wrong knowledge, in that only one is profitable for the soul. Seek it with wisdom."

-God's Poet

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Lincoln98 · 22-25, M

What is the just measure of a dishonest individual, ma'am; one who would go whatever lengths so as to come out victor? ....
I shall leave your conscience to that.

Or maybe you wrote from having not noticed. If that be the case, then come to realise it now, ma'am; you missed a major part of the text, and from that, have supposed that I perform hypocrisy/contradict myself knowingly/claim God has no origin & yet claim also that I do not know how to explain His origin (indirectly stating then that He does have an origin) - please do read the text again, patiently.

Now, let us review the text.
""...on and on and on, we would continue, until we shall both die" is part of the "And if I chose to lie to you instead, saying 'yes, God was created'..." body. Before that comes, "...you have asked, 'who created God', and I have answered you truthfully..."
Do you see now, ma'am, that the excerpt quoted by you is laid under the grounds of if I were to choose to speak a lie instead. That is what you missed, dear ma'am. Now you see I did not contradict myself. God has no beginning and end; He is the Alpha & Omega, the beginning and the end.

I have come to a conclusion that you ascribe the universe to creation; but your own grounds of creation is more of a 'happened-by-chance' event rather than a work-of-a-creator. (Do correct me if I am mistaken).
We know how perfectly set up the universe is - all that is in it - but your acknowledgement of it is that it is just a random event...happened by chance. We humans know that the probability of something occurring equals one, with the chance of either of 2 events occurring equalling 0.5 each;and moreover, we know that the chance of perfection occurring - let alone it occuring SPONTANEOUSLY - is FAR LESS THAN 0.5. Let us reason.

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You made the statement, "If it were in any way valid to claim that your god has always existed, then it would be equally valid to claim that the universe has always existed."; which in itself implies then that the universe is god, which in itself is pantheism. I assumed that was what you meant.

Gratitude