If there is a higher power, how did they come into being?
This is on point as being the most often repeated question of atheists to the spiritual.
What do you mean by "being?" Spiritual things do not have physiology. There is no 'being' in a physical sense. Only physical things are physical and have to "exist" or "be created" in physical sense. This is why spiritual nature is so hard for humans to comprehend, it doesn't conform to physical nature. As humans, we often catch ourselves saying stuff like "God exists" and others can't grasp that, and perhaps, rightly so. It's a breakdown in terminology and our ability to conceptualize. "Exist" means nothing to something that is spiritual. It just IS. It didn't require creation or "come from" something. Immortality.. Everlasting.. There are people in this very thread who do not believe in an Immortal God, yet they will argue to the death that Energy is immortal. Go figure?
Theists often state “God is outside of time”. This claim does not actually make their speculation correct. Instead, it brings with it a whole host of problems and may be immediately dismissed as being without basis and a type fallacy known as special pleading.
Special pleading (also known as stacking the deck, ignoring the counterevidence, slanting, and one-sided assessment) is a form of argument where a position in a dispute introduces favourable details or excludes unfavourable details by alleging a need to apply additional considerations without proper criticism of these considerations. Essentially, this involves someone attempting to cite something as an exception to a generally accepted rule, principle, etc. without justifying the exception.
God is not physical boss? Special Pleading.