If God created the universe, who created God?

Question

And don't say God was always there, nothing can be 'always there,' it has to be made.

OK OK!!!! Sheesh, don't take offence like, I wan't being nasty.

Answer 1

there is no chance that you will ever believe in God.

Answer 2

Guess it depends on your concept of the universe. There are those of us who can accept that he was always there and then there are those, like you, who can't.

This is the only thing that I have ever "just taken on faith." Everything else, I have to either have proved or disproved.

And, here is some "logic" to go with your question - You said that "nothing can be 'always there", it has to be made."
If that statement applied to everything and everyone, you would never come to the beginning - you would keep looking and looking and looking into infinity (which brings you back to God again, doesn't it - with his infinity).

But, it really is a hard concept for humans to accept that God had no beginning, since everything in our awareness has had a beginning. So, I can certainly understand how someone without faith would not be able to accept this point.

It can only be done with faith.

Answer 3

Usually "God" means by definition "the ultimate cause" and the "creator of everything that is". So if someone else created God, that someone else is really "God" and the one you first called God is not.

Personally, I don't believe in God, but you cannot escape the monotheist's logic by saying someone else maybe created God, because that contradicts the definitions.

Given you talk about the same God as Christians, Muslims and Jews do.

And, sorry to say, but given that same religious world of thought, I MUST say he was always there, because that's also part of the fundamental definition of the word "God". Eternal.

Again given you talk about the same God as Christians, Muslims and Jews do.

Answer 4

Let us assume that the computer you use is designed and manufuctured, in another word created by you. The computer can do so many things for you. It can also can run wild and do so much damage to you, in case it is connected to a robot arm. If you bring one even a stupid person and show your computer for sure he will tell you it is created by someone. What makes him to say that, because everything it is doing is excelletely designed and orchestrated. But if you ask the computer to tell you everthing about you( The Creator ), it does tell you nothing. Because it gives you only the things you give him, nothing more nothing less. if you donnot tell him about yourself, then it tells you nothing about yourself. Therefore in the same logic, because you and the universe is designed excellently, it is very easy to reach the conclusion that some one created it. But nothing in this world men or the natural can tell the whole information about God, but only what the God himself allows you to know.

Answer 5

Well, you may not yet understand the concept of God's eternal existence, but it seems that you do acknowledge the existence of an intelligent creator, since you state that everything "has to be made." Well simply look around you at all of this amazing universe that you can see. Us humans are puny and our minds are limited in their ability to comprehend the enormity of creation. Does a watch understand the watchmaker? Why should we be capable of fully understanding God. Just be thankful that he so clearly makes his existence known to us and has offered us an opportunity to spend eternity with Him, and just maybe come to understand a bit more of Him then.

Answer 6

There were other universes before this one. They each had their own God, who had children so they could create new universes. Of course, where the first God came from is an open question.

Answer 7

Why does something have to be made? If God doesn't exist, as you are clearly alluding to, then the universe was created spontaneously through the Big Bang...and where did all that material come from? And don't say it was always there. Nothing can be 'always there,' it has to be made...right? ;-P

Answer 8

Many people have written about this issue. My favorite discussion comes from Buckminster Fuller in a series of lectures. It is sort of about the structuring of thought and our ability to make sense of what is around us. So maybe how we frame this question of God is complicated. We ask the question from a vantage point that doesn't really understand the totallity of eternity so we think God had to "come" from somewhere.

Answer 9

This is a question where the answer already exists in our soul. Faith in one's soul goes to find the answer throughout life. It is then considered a fulfillment that enables the transformation to our next life. For instance, Hinduism's concept of Karma is this fulfillment. Or, Buddhism's idea of reincarnation. There are many transliterated words for every Religion. One must study constantly to bridge these differences into one united idea. This is why I belong to the Baha'i Faith.

Answer 10

God was always there.

There must be something that was always there, if something always has to made then there has to be something to make the maker, and then something to make the maker of that, and it goes on and on and never stops.

Since that makes no sense whatsoever compared to God always being there making a small amount of sense. I choose God always being there.

By the way what created truth? Has it not alway existed?

Answer 11

God's God made God and God's God's God made God's God but what did he make God out of? Did God's God's God make the material for God's God?

Maybe God is the universe. Then they are one and the same? Maybe the chicken is the egg?