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human imagination. its a wonderfull thing, really. too bad we waste it on religion.

2006-06-25 15:36:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

A number of sceptics ask this question. But God by definition is the uncreated creator of the universe, so the question ?Who created God?? is illogical, just like ?To whom is the bachelor married??

So a more sophisticated questioner might ask: ?If the universe needs a cause, then why doesn?t God need a cause? And if God doesn?t need a cause, why should the universe need a cause?? In reply, Christians should use the following reasoning:

Everything which has a beginning has a cause.1
The universe has a beginning.
Therefore the universe has a cause.
It?s important to stress the words in bold type. The universe requires a cause because it had a beginning, as will be shown below. God, unlike the universe, had no beginning, so doesn?t need a cause. In addition, Einstein?s general relativity, which has much experimental support, shows that time is linked to matter and space. So time itself would have begun along with matter and space.


Since God, by definition, is the creator of the whole universe, he is the creator of time. Therefore He is not limited by the time dimension He created, so has no beginning in time ? God is ?the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity? (Isaiah 57:15). Therefore He doesn?t have a cause.

In contrast, there is good evidence that the universe had a beginning. This can be shown from the Laws of Thermodynamics, the most fundamental laws of the physical sciences.

1st Law: The total amount of mass-energy in the universe is constant.
2nd Law: The amount of energy available for work is running out, or entropy is increasing to a maximum.
If the total amount of mass-energy is limited, and the amount of usable energy is decreasing, then the universe cannot have existed forever, otherwise it would already have exhausted all usable energy ? the ?heat death? of the universe. For example, all radioactive atoms would have decayed, every part of the universe would be the same temperature, and no further work would be possible.

So the obvious corollary is that the universe began a finite time ago with a lot of usable energy, and is now running down.


Now, what if the questioner accepts that the universe had a beginning, but not that it needs a cause? But it is self-evident that things that begin have a cause ? no-one really denies it in his heart. All science and history would collapse if this law of cause and effect were denied. So would all law enforcement, if the police didn?t think they needed to find a cause for a stabbed body or a burgled house.

Also, the universe cannot be self-caused ? nothing can create itself, because that would mean that it existed before it came into existence, which is a logical absurdity

2006-06-25 22:41:39 · answer #2 · answered by envisiondreaming 2 · 0 0

God is, He was, and He is to come (Revelation 4:8). He is the Self-Existent One. He was from the beginning (John 1:1). This question cannot be perfectly logically answered, but He simply always was, existent forever for He is God.
As an aside, no matter what you believe (creation, evolution) the question is what made the stuff that made the stuff? If you believe in the Big Bang, what made the stuff that went bang? What made the scientific laws? At some point, there is no logical answer, and you just have to have faith that something was.
And God is the One who is and was and is to come.

2006-06-25 22:37:21 · answer #3 · answered by Cameron 4 · 0 0

Nobody created God. God is eternal without beginning or end. Do I understand this, no.

Heb 7:3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.

The only thing we know is that God acquired wisdom in eternity past.

WISDOM SPEAKING
Pro 8:23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
Pro 8:24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
Pro 8:25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
Pro 8:26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Pro 8:27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
Pro 8:28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
Pro 8:29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
Pro 8:30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
Pro 8:31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.

2006-06-25 22:36:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

No one. God has existed since before the beginning of before the beginning of time. He is the Divine Creator. He made everything and was not created by anyone.

2006-06-25 22:36:08 · answer #5 · answered by songbird 6 · 0 0

That's the ultimate question. Congrats on finding it, but with modern physics and all of our knowledge, we won't be able to comprehend the answer. Unless of course we evolve and become smarter and develop a new set of physics laws that can explain subatomic behavior, the center of blackholes, and of course in this case, negative time (or time before the Big Bang).

2006-06-25 22:36:44 · answer #6 · answered by TheAnomaly 4 · 0 0

I answered this before.
What is bigger than the biggest number? If there is a biggest number, what is that number + 1? Is it even bigger than the biggest number? This shows that our minds have a concept of infinite as we are created in the image of God. But we cannot fit God into our comprehension as we cannot completely understand the infinite.

2006-06-25 22:40:15 · answer #7 · answered by George T 2 · 0 0

trust me, u will not find the answer to that on earth, or anywhere else in that matter.... the only way 2 know, we humans assume is after death... But then again thats an assumption.. Dont think too much about all this, cause u will just keep hitting the brick wall, just be good to others and that will please you and God. Take it easy buddy, peace...

2006-06-25 22:37:41 · answer #8 · answered by noms 3 · 0 0

NO one. If everything as we know it has a cause, then there must be of necessity a first cause, which is in and of itself uncaused. Hence, God.

2006-06-25 22:35:52 · answer #9 · answered by RandyGE 5 · 0 0

God always is, always was, and always will be. He is outside of space, and therefore outside of the space-time continuum, so laws of time do not apply to him.

2006-06-25 22:37:01 · answer #10 · answered by Crys H. 4 · 0 0

Nobody. He's been here since the beginning of time.

2006-06-25 22:36:03 · answer #11 · answered by CruelChick 4 · 0 0

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