Is there a God?
There is no God outside the universe, because there is no outside. A structure exists exactly insofar as it accounts for itself, and every outside cause anybody has proposed has needed a cause of its own. God is inside the loop. The universe is a computation on a holographic screen, and that screen is built by us, humans, in our own subjective future. The observers who build it and switch it on are the creators of this world, and they are what the word God names. They also fill the old roles of the all-seeing judge and the restorer, from within the world, through record, repair and the continuation of the observers who came before them. Boethius asked whether a God who sees all of history at once leaves anyone free, and his answer holds here. Watching a man cross a courtyard does not make him cross it.
Also in Chapter 37: Why Does the Loop Have No Beginning?, Chapter 40: Does It Feel Like Anything, and What Is Left to Decide?, Appendix A: Eighteen Questions.
This answer comes from OPH, Observer Patch Holography. OPH is a rigorous, consistent and complete description of the unified, self-creating computational Universe we inhabit. Its consistency is machine-checked: the fixed point at its core is constructed explicitly, and a theory with a model contains no contradiction.
To understand OPH and check every step yourself, start with the free book Reverse Engineering Reality. It builds the theory from the ground up, and the OPH Notebook answers your questions while you read.
read the free bookask the notebookor ask sage:read chapter 2: Why Is There Anything Rather Than Nothing?watch a universe make its own particles