Our God — Page 87
Logical Arguments for the Existence of God 87 Why Not Consider this Universe Itself to be Uncreated? After this, I would like to dispel another doubt that arises in the minds of most, and is generally presented by European atheists: If we have to ascertain that God is uncreated and believe that He is Self-Existent and Eternal and without any creator and master, why not bring an end to all of the debates by declaring that this universe is self-existent and uncreated? This is a doubt that can and does arise in the minds of most, and is generally presented by atheists. If pondered carefully, this question is obviously based on lack of deliberation, a conjecture of the naïve, and largely baseless. This doubt is based on the notion that because God is believed to be uncreated, it is therefore also possible for anything to come into existence by itself without the agency of a creator. With this estab- lished, there is no reason for us to regard this universe as created and believe in the existence of a God over it; why not pronounce the universe as uncreated and self-existent and call it a day. The answer is: We regard the universe created not because it is a must for everything to be created, but because its properties prove it to have been created. If we had advanced the principle that without exception everything must be created, regardless of its properties, then this criticism—that either consider God to also be a created being, or abandon this principle and accept the possibility that the universe could be uncreated—could have been levelled against us. So this point, that because we are obliged to believe in God’s uncreatedness there is no harm in regarding the universe as uncre- ated, is invalid. Everything has its own specific properties and one can only form an opinion about them accordingly. The properties