1. The indisputable fact that there is something rather than nothing is sufficient warrant for affirming the existence of a Creator of the vast array of somethings we call reality.
1.1. We can call this Creator “God.”
2. The Creator-God of the vast array of somethings we call reality cannot be a member of the set of the vast array of somethings we call reality.
2.1. Hence, although God objectively is—that is, exists independently—God isn’t an object and isn’t appropriately thought of or described in thing-like or object-like terms.
3. Since our language is object-oriented, all thought and description of God—even the label “god” itself—is inadequate. At best, God-talk is negative or apophatic (what God is not), analogous (what God is like), or symbolic (a stand-in sign).
3.1. The starting point of most atheist repudiations of theism (especially the unclever ones offered by champions of the New Atheism) is the false assumption that the Creator-God is describable in exactly the same way that a member of the vast array of somethings we call reality is.
3.1.1. Thus most atheist repudiations are strawmen.
3.2. The starting point of most defenses of theism is the false assumption that the Creator-God is describable in exactly the same way that a member of the vast array of somethings we call reality is.
3.2.1. Thus most theistic affirmations are misleading.
(Note: none of this is original in even the slightest way. But it seems to me worth saying from time to time.)
Love it when someone lays out EXACTLY what they are thinking. Regarding the first hypothesis, it overlooks the eternal and uncreated nature of all matter. Second Law of Thermodynamics. Time to re-visit Spinoza? Substance is all and all is substance. and Insofar as we know, it is eternal and unending. Therefore the wisest stance is naturalistic, perhaps broadly pantheistic or at minimum agnostic; not Nature's God (of the deists) but Nature is God. There is no sound reason to assume otherwise. Anything else is "a priori." All Devotion to the the Principle and Entity of all Phenomena.