The Problem of the Creature Acting as the Equivalent of God as One Possible Outcome of Atheism.

According to monotheism, God is an infinite being, who alone can create something from nothing.
For the act of creation of something from nothing is an infinite act, to bring the negation of being into being.
God as being is then the universal cause of all being.
For only being can cause being.
Therefore a creature's being is caused by God.
But atheism denies the existence of God as the infinite being and the universal cause of being.
Being is the actualisation of all acts.
The creature's being must be accounted for by the atheist as through a number of false options -

1) Nothing causes the being of the creature. But nothing is a negation of being and a negation is not a cause. For a cause always involves the act to be, and not the act not to be as found in nothing.

2) Another creature causes the being of the creature. But another creature is itself a nature that has being and is not of itself being. As any creature presupposes the being of the creature, being is ontologically prior to any creature. Therefore a creature cannot cause the being of another creature, for the creature, cannot be the cause of that being, which is ontologically prior to any creature.

3) The creature causes the being of itself. Yet for the creature to cause its own being requires the creature to cause that which is presupposed in the creature. If that which is both caused, but presupposed, is both cause and effect of the same. Such an arrangement of causes and effects is circular and thereby impossible.

The most impossible cause of being is non-being.
For a cause involves being and never a negation of being.
The next most impossible cause of being is a creature, or the creature itself.
For a creature at least has being, which can then act as a cause.
Yet the creature cannot cause being as explained above.
Therefore a creature acting as a cause of being is impossible, but less so in the respect that the creature may be a cause and nothing cannot be a cause.
Under the aspect of cause, the creature may be said to be a less impossible cause of the being of a creature than nothing.

If the atheist chooses to account for the being of a creature as caused by a creature, the atheist has chosen a false cause that he assumes is a true cause.
If so, the atheist has chosen a creature to act in the place of God, who is itself being.
When the creature does not exist, the being of the creature does not exist.

When the creature does exist, the being of the creature does exist.
The transition from can be to does be of the creatures being is then analogous to the act of God creating.
For God creates as being from non-being through the infinite power of God.
If creatures cause their own being, the creature analogously has an infinite power to cause itself before it exists, to then exist.
The creature as the cause of a creature's being is then the author of being, analogous to the theist's God as the universal cause of being.
Therefore, if atheism is true, atheism may conclude to the creature acting in the equivalent manner of God as the cause of being of creatures.

Discussion - the atheist's choice to make the creature the author of its own being is absurd. Yet if assumed to be true, as the atheist may assume, the creature takes on the necessity of an infinite power analogous to God as the author of creation. Atheism then must deny the existence of God, but then posit the creature acting as a quasi-god, which is to posit the existence of a false god in the place of the true god.