Theists, what is the most difficult to imagine 1. The first atom came from nowhere 2. God came from nowhere but has always been there?

Something from nothing never makes sense. Something always there is required to stop am infinite chain of causation. As stated 2) is a contradictory statement as coming from nowhere and always existing are contradictory. That 1) makes more sense is meaningless because the alternative offered in nonsense. Divide 2) into two parts 2) God comes from nowhere and 3)God has always existed.

Be fair. You have a good an argument worth saying. No need to stack the deck in your own favor.

The cosmological argument is something every open minded person should be familiar with even if you find it flawed. Being open minded means knowing the best arguments for both sides of a question.

The second option, because it makes more sense that someone or something has always existed than it does that something came from nothing without anything to cause it. Pantheists believe the universe itself is eternal and has always existed, but such a thing is not possible if the Big Bang theory is true, since we can trace the origin of the universe to the singularity. Even if you argue that the universe has a series of expansions and contractions that will continue forever, the series must have begun somewhere.

The 'God came from nowhere' statement is a misunderstanding of His being, God never came to exist, He has always existed. That is because Henis outside of time and therefore a Being outside of time cannot have a beginning (which must happen at some TIME) or an end (which must also happen at some TIME).

I don't believe in gods, but the first atom coming from nothing makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. There has always had to have been matter with no beginning to begin with. Our universe and everything in it may have had a singular beginning, but no way is our universe the only universe in current existence, and neither is it the first, nor the last.

1. And atom is a physical thing, needs a creator, needs to have come from somewhere, something. God is a spiritual being, and just is. He is. God isn't His name but what He is. Being THE deity of the world means He has no beginning and no end.

If God "has always been there" then logically it is impossible that he "came from nowhere".

God did not come from something.

God did not come from nothing.

God did not come from somewhere.

God did not come from nowhere.

God did not "come from" at all. He has ALWAYS been.

I have no idea, but I do love the arrogance of christians who think that their catch-all excuse trumps the lifetimes of knowledge offered by cosmologists.

assuming 'nowhere' is outside our space/time and reality you have basically defined heaven and Gods existence .. seems logical enough to me either way ..

It isn't hard for me to imagine, I know God is real, and that He has always existed....

You are mangling the definition of eternal. God has no beginning and no end.