I feel that the theist doesn't clarify or define God in a plausible way. For instance how would a timeless, immaterial being have existence? And how does that mind of that being actually operate on nature?
We don't really need to know how to everything.
Interestingly we can operate on nature with our mind and can move things with out mind. The mechanics is the mind working through our bodies or even though someone else's power in their bodies. With God the power is there but God is spirit just as our thoughts are sort of spirit.
How would God have existence? Do theists have to know these things?
God is spirit and spirit no doubt includes such things as life and love and truth and ideas etc. The universe is material and can wear out and does do that, spirit it seems is more durable and long lasting. It could be asked where life and love and ideas etc come from when they are not material even though experienced in this material medium. So it could be that the universe is not really explainable with a source for these things.
Also where is the evidence for the supernatural?
And what gives a theist reason to call nature a perfect design? Where is the evidence that it once was perfect?
I don't think it once was perfect but it was what God wanted. It was made to wear out.
Faith it seems is a function of our spirit. Exercising that function can give results for those who exercise it.
I've worked myself to the point of seeing intelligence in nature and no design, but perhaps an artistic creativity is on display.
Nature to me is a lot like a program. I can see where a spiritual aspect to nature might exist because the self is no illusion, and I have a limited free will.
Maybe intelligence and design once it is known that the universe was made to wear out and certainly an artistic display in the midst of utility, great for us humans who can appreciate both.
Our limited free will seems to be a function of how we gave control of our will over to what we desired, so sometimes we do what we do not want to do and do not do what we want to do.
Omnipotence, and all knowing and ever present qualities are things no one has evidence for.
These are things of faith and can be experienced more with faith.
In the olden days in the Bible people may have had different Gods for different places or things and then THE God came along and had to clear that misconception up with a display that He was the God who worked in all places and over centuries of time and in all spheres.
I see there are higher moral standards then what God holds; eternal punishment for non believers is moral failure.
Punishment for non believers brings with it the idea of justice.
I think some with suffer for a time and live on and others will suffer for a time and then be destroyed as a person.
So I see the idea of suffering forever as a mistake by some about the nature of death for those who do not get given eternal life.
Having said that I am not the one judging.
It's a matter of trusting God to do what is right and fair.
The existence of God doesn't intuit well from my experience of reality. For me existence is a big mystery as to why things are the way they are and naturalism doesn't explain anything in regards to those mysteries. Theism goes way too far in concluding that God exists.
It has to be either believe in a God or say there is no God.
I think atheists have gone too far in concluding that there is no God.
I find God to be more cultural than universal.
Certainly different ideas and understanding have sprung up in different places and some of the ideas contradict others. But the common thing is a God usually.