Dialogue with my atheist friend

Author's name: Mustafa Mahmoud

"My friend is a man who loves debate and talks. He believes that we naive believers feed on illusions, laugh at ourselves with paradise and private conversation, and miss out on the pleasures and charms of this world. On this occasion, my friend graduated from France and obtained a doctorate, lived with the hippies, and began to deny everything. He said to me sarcastically: “You say that God exists, and the mainstay of your proofs is the law of causality, which states that every craft has a maker, every creation has a creator, and every existence has a creator. The fabric indicates the weaver, the drawing indicates the painter, the engraving indicates the engraver, and the universe, according to this logic, is the most eloquent proof of the Almighty God who created it. We believed and have faith in this Creator. Don’t we have the right, by the same logic, to ask: Who created the Creator? Who created the God you are talking to us about? Don’t your same arguments lead us to this, and according to the same law of causality? What do you think of this trap, may you always be well?” We say to him: Your question is invalid. There is no trap or need, for you admit that God is a Creator, and then you say who created Him?! “So you make Him the Creator and the created in the same sentence, and this is a contradiction. The other aspect of the corruption of the question is that you imagine the Creator is subject to the laws of His creation. Causality is our law, we are the children of time and space. God, who created time and space, is necessarily above time and space, and it is not right for us to imagine Him bound by time and space or by the laws of time and space. God is the one who created the law of causality, so it is not permissible for us to imagine Him subject to the law of causality that He created. With this sophistry, you are like a puppet who moves with its spring and imagines that the man who made it must also move with its spring. So if we tell it, rather, it moves of its own accord, it says, ‘It is impossible for anything to move of its own accord. I see everything in my world moving with its spring.’ Likewise, you do not imagine that God exists in and of itself without a creator, simply because you see everything around you in need of a creator.”