God can only be real is we make God real first. So, how did God do it? We must answer this otherwise we are freewheeling.
The only option for God to have created creation is when God used parts of God godself. There was nothing else around, so God had to use parts of godself.
That means we are not created by God, but from (parts of) God. Quite the distinction, right? God sacrificed parts of God, and so today God is not the same that God was before creation occurred.
