We were sitting at the table having pizza and soda for lunch and random questions were coming from him, keep in mind hes only 8. Then he ask "Who made God?" ... My husband and I looked at eachother with blank looks in our faces.... I didnt know what to say... neither did my husband and he grew up in a Christian School.... ALL his life... and he usually has to answers to alot of things. BUT that was a question he nor I could answer.... Anyone care to help me?
2006-08-09 16:37:01 · 41 answers · asked by ♥ €ћяϊ§†Ұ™ ♥ 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That is about the age kids ask such a thing. When my kids asked me I explained it as God is forever....He was never born and He never dies. I showed them my ring and showed them how a circle has no beginning or end. It just goes around and around, etc.....
A number line is also infinite. <--------->
They accepted those aswers.
2006-08-09 16:42:54 · answer #1 · answered by gracefully_saved 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
God is timeless -- that is, he literally exists outside of time.
Albert Einstein told us that matter is bound to space and matter. Since God is neither, God is not affected by time.
Think of Eternity as an endless loop. It has no begining and no end, since there is no time there. If God is timeless, it makes no sense to talk about "beginnings" and "endings".
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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.
The universe has a beginning.
Therefore the universe has a cause.
... 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.
IN SUMMARY
The universe (including time itself) can be shown to have had a beginning.
It is unreasonable to believe something could begin to exist without a cause.
The universe therefore requires a cause, just as Genesis 1:1 and Romans 1:20 teach.
God, as creator of time, is outside of time. Since therefore He has no beginning in time, He has always existed, so doesn’t need a cause.
2006-08-09 16:47:19 · answer #2 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A very thoughtful question for someone who is so young, he's got his wheels turning at a young age. That or he may have heard the question from someone else
The old question of "Well if God made the universe, who made God?" is an old one. To ask it though, we have to ask first, "What's the first thing?" With an understanding already that God came before everything, it makes it hard to understand that God has no creator, because he eternally exists backwards as well as forward.
So we know that God came first. So nothing was before God. Was anything always existing with God? No, because he was first. So time also didn't always exist. Before God created time, there was no past, present, or future. So there was nothing before God created the universe, so no one made God because there was nothing else there. But there was also no time before God came up with the idea, so there's really no time before God created the universe either.
I hope this helps, God bless you for asking, and take care.
PS, here's another of the same question that I answered much more in depth, along with many other people, in case you're interested in that one.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApZFAyTWL.ST64kP6L_3S2gezKIX?qid=20060807085500AAu0C9Y&cp=2&tp=2#all-answers
2006-08-09 16:47:22 · answer #3 · answered by GodsKnite 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When asked “Who or what created God?,” we are making the assumption that God was created. If God exists outside of time and space, and if He is the Creator of time and space, He obviously was not created! God began the beginning! This is why He says, “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.”
God created time. The statement of Genesis, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth,” is making reference to the creation of time. The reason that things like heat death, the expansion of the universe, and the depletion of hydrogen do not apply to God is because He is outside of time. God has always been. He not only began time; He will also end it. When time ends, all matter and all mankind will enter eternity—a timeless condition free of the negative things that time brings upon us now
That is why He says "I am the Alpha and the Omega" the beginning and the end.
2006-08-09 16:58:15 · answer #4 · answered by pooh bear 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one made God.
He always was. Always will be.
Revelation 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Revelation 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God...
He was already there.
Ephesians 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
He hath chosen us - before the foundation of the world.
2006-08-09 16:46:55 · answer #5 · answered by NickofTyme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
concider that it is likly that God did not ask to be and dose not even know himself how he came to be... it has been an eternity after all... I am not makeingl light of the subject. I am of the Christian Faith and on the more fundamental side of most issues...But it is a fact that no mortal knows...But that God created all of this univers is a fact and He makes the rules in this universe... so I try to stay on His good side, if you know what I mean... He will let those of us who have a place in Heaven know what He wants us to know about all of that "where did God come from" business in his own good time.... or not..it is his choise not mine.
2006-08-09 16:55:56 · answer #6 · answered by IdahoMike 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God existed before time was time. It's a lot for an eight-year-old to understand, but at one point, God was all that was. He must have had something sweet to do, because I certainly would have gotten very bored. But he sneezed and time started, everything started creating itself (a.k.a. the Big Bang) and now we sit here today on Yahoo! Answers.
2006-08-09 16:43:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God has always existed. He is eternal.
I remember asking this question when I was very young and I was told that if I tried to figure out the answer, I would go insane. Until I was a young teen, I avoided thinking about it at all so I wouldn't go crazy. LOL.
2006-08-09 16:43:05 · answer #8 · answered by Peter B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one made God. He has always been and will forever be. Remember, we cannot fathom that kind of thing. We are limited, human beings with a beginning and an end. It's almot impossible for us to fathom the infinite nature of God. But that is the true answer.
2006-08-09 16:41:19 · answer #9 · answered by christian_lady_2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We know that He's "been" forever. Alpha & Omega. God didn't tell us any more than that because He knew we wouldn't understand with our finite minds. Not important for us to know the details of that right now anyway. God has bigger fish to fry. When Christians are in Heaven, He'll share with us all those mysteries of the universe.
2006-08-09 16:45:44 · answer #10 · answered by Red neck 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no finite mind can answer how God had no beginning but the fact is he is the self existent creator. he always was and always will be.
every effect must have a cause and this universe had to have a creator who is the God whose ways are higher than ours is as the heavens are from the earth and whose power created life in
all its glory.
2006-08-09 17:01:29 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋