God: the Next Version

items “unreal” leaves out something important. I have suggested that God is, at bottom, one of these abstract objects. You can be a skeptic about the traditional picture of God as a quasi-material, ghostly being, and still believe the idea of God I presented in this book. 3. There can be a God even if no one created the universe. If God is the supremely good being, then there could be a God even if no one created the universe. It is possible to believe in a supremely good being even if random physical forces created the universe, or even if the universe always existed and never had a beginning. You do not have to believe in a creator of the universe to believe in God. This argument does not rule out the possibility that God created the universe. It only means that you do not have to believe in a creator to believe in God. Most believers think God is the creator as well as a supremely good being. However, God does not have to create anything to be God. If God turns out to be the creator, there are at least three ways that God could create without violating any natural laws. I mentioned two of these ways in chapter 3, and the third way in chapter 4. If God created the universe in any of these three ways, then everything in the universe would be a product of physical causes alone, just as if there had been no creator. If God created the universe in the way described in chapter 4, then God is a creator with no supernatural intervention at all. Those who want to prove there is a God should stop obsessing about how life and the universe came to be. Instead, they should focus on showing there is a supremely good being. Those who want to debunk God will have to show there is no supremely good being. It is not enough for them to show that life and the universe have natural, physical