2006-08-04 23:46:06 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The atheist Bertrand Russell wrote in his book "Why I am Not a Christian" that if it is true that all things need a cause then God must also need a cause. He concluded from this that if God needed a cause then God was not God (and if God is not God then of course there is no God). This was basically a slightly more sophisticated form of the childlike question, "Who made God?" Even a child knows that things do not come from nothing, so if God is a "something" then He must have a cause as well, right?
The question is tricky because it sneaks in the false assumption that God came from somewhere and then asks where that might be. The answer is that the question does not even make sense. It is like asking, "What does blue smell like?" Blue is not in the category of things that have odor, so the question itself is flawed. In the same way, God is not in the category of things that are created, or come into existence, or are caused. God is uncaused and uncreated - He simply exists.
How do we know this? Well, we know that from nothing, nothing comes. So if there was ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence then nothing would have ever come to exist. But things do exist. Therefore, since there could never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been existing. That ever-existing thing is what we call God.
Recommended Resource: Knowing God by J.I. Packer.
2006-08-04 23:49:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can see some very nice reasoning by sweetblond n others.
My reasoning is somewhat similar. Like all the other creations, we, humans are also "bounded" and we all have boundaries that we cannot step out of. An example, we are all bounded to time, we have to live through time, leave a past behind and have a future infront. There is no way that we can step out of time and see things timelessly. We are also bounded by the laws of physics and we cannot step out of them. An example for this can be causality. We live in the world of causes and in this physical dimension that we live in, there has to be a cause for something to happen and again, we cannot step out of these laws and expect things to happen in a causless way.
The problem arises when we try to comprehend God through the laws that we are bound by i.e. we are bound by time, we have a begining and we reason that God must also have a begining. Also, we expect a cause to see an effect and we reason that God must also have a cause for His existance. These reasonings are all faulty. God has created all those boundaries and only his creations are bounded in them. Just as how illogical it is for a table to say "i am immobile, so the human who made me must also be immoblie", it is also illogical for a human to say "i was created, so the One who created me must also be created."
2006-08-05 00:20:03 · answer #2 · answered by psy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I asked this once.
I got a long winded explanation regarding Perfection.
Long story, short.
WE R NOT PERFECT, therefore unable 2 accept that God is God, without trying 2 tear the whole idea apart.
We were made, what makes U think God was made?
UR over thinking a pointless muse!
2006-08-04 23:52:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's my theory.
God said, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.
For this concept, we have to think "outside the box". That means we have to think outside of the concept of time.
Because time had to have started someplace. The first second of time had to be created by something.
So, I think it's just possible that God was there before time began and that he created time.
Which would mean, that if you think of God existing outside of the sphere of time, he could have always existed and therefore was not created by anyone.
2006-08-04 23:52:41 · answer #4 · answered by Searcher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God's father God
2006-08-04 23:47:53 · answer #5 · answered by Red Scorpion 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you believe in the God of the Holy Bible, you believe what the Bible says. The Bible says God is the great "I am". He is. Period.
When you have the Holy Spirit and you gain some understanding, you realize that God is so huge you can't fathom who He is.
Non-believers try to give him limited human traits....he's no where near human. We are like worms. The same way worms understand us humans, is how we understand who God is and what He's done.
2006-08-04 23:57:57 · answer #6 · answered by megmom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no one has created GOD. GOD was there from first no matter how u think u wont get the answer
2006-08-04 23:52:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God exists... not created... a bit confusing but we need to have the philosophy .... beyond and after
2006-08-04 23:49:39 · answer #8 · answered by n9flyboy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Spirits' Book asks the question, Can we understand the essential nature of God?
The spirits answers that we are too unevolve to comprehend this.
2006-08-04 23:51:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If he was created, then he would not be God.
2006-08-05 03:13:48 · answer #10 · answered by Iwanna know 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋