We have heard several cosmological arguments for a god-created universe. We've been told that everything that exists has a prior cause. The universe exists. Therefore the universe has a prior cause. That cause must be god.
So before the universe there was god. Unchanging, eternal, omniscient, omnipotent, perfect. Then this unchanging god's motives changed and it created the universe. Why didn't it do that earlier? God is timeless, so there was no "earlier", which means the universe has always existed in one form or another. Nobody created anything. Hence god is redundant. Or god is not timeless and must therefore have itself been brought into existence.
What changed to make god want to create the universe? What could an omniscient god have discovered that suddenly made creation a good idea? What external factors could influence an omnipresent, omnipotent god? Did a perfect god need the universe to make itself more perfect?
Something that is perfect cannot change or cause change, since that would make it no longer perfect. Consciousness and creation are processes of change. Therefore a perfect god is a mindless, inactive nonentity. In other words, it doesn't exist.
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