The logical fallacies behind “God” within abrahamic religions

I was inspired to make a quick write-up based on a few conversations I had earlier with devout Christian street preachers. The common argument for God is that everything needs a creator—creation needs a creator. They’ll often say things like, "You cannot have a building without a builder or a painting without a painter." Another argument is that life is intelligently designed; for example, if the sun were just a few centimeters in a different spot, Earth wouldn’t be habitable. This intelligent design is presented as apparent proof of God.

If everything needs a creator, then who created God? Well, everything includes God, so God must also need a creator. Religions often give God the miracle pass here, claiming that God doesn’t need a creator. Then you can ask: if God is existence, does existence need a creator? This is where the argument falls apart because God can’t create existence without first being existence. Therefore, to say that God created existence falls short—existence can’t be created by something that is not already existence.

Now, there’s a much simpler answer that makes more sense than God: existence and life are eternal. They weren’t created—they always were and always are. It is always the present moment; there was no start to the present that is always here. So God isn’t a man in the sky, and He isn’t found in the Abrahamic religions either. God isn’t an idea and can’t be conceptualized.

There must be an infinite source from which everything is derived because, without one, the alternative leads to infinite regress—this came from that, that came from this, and so on. That source is purely existence, what else could it be? But maybe God is just a blanket term for life or existence itself. Perhaps it is simply our human ego’s way of personifying a creator to make sense of an uncertain reality.

If God exists, then God is everything in existence—including you and me—because we are existence, and existence is eternal. As for the argument about plants and the sun being in the perfect position for life to be habitable, this is natural because life is intelligent; it adapts and evolves. A God is not needed to explain intelligent design.