if God was the creator, who created the the creator?

Question

this questions probably annoying...

wow great answers. thanks again everyone. funny how there is the few who belittle the question. do they no know their own religion? or do they not like anything that questions their religion? surely their faith is stonger then that!!

Answer 1

If God created Man in His image... it means that God must look like Man..
so whoever created God.. must have also looked like Man.
Therefore, Man created God.

Answer 2

That which always was doesn't need a creator. God is a priori. I will use infinity as an analogy.

Think of the number 1. It has a distinct value, but is determined by it's relation to other numbers. 1 is greater then 0 but less than 2. Now think of infinity. It has no such relation. Infinity is always equal to it self, never can be greater than itself, and when added to itself or anything else it is always itself. Infinity + 1 is infinity. Things that possess such properties are self evident, or axioms. These type principles are the bedrock for all other principles derived from them.

Such is God. God is the bedrock for all things that we know about. If you remove him, then all other things fall apart logically. A universe without God doesn't make sense.

I do like Pascal’s Wager: “If I believe in God, and he doesn’t exist, I’ve lost nothing. If I don’t believe in God, and he does exist, then I’ve lost everything.” God, being infinite is everything, so a finite world plus an infinite God really ends up in an infinite God. But if all that exists is the finite, not the infinite, then I really have nothing to lose at all.

Answer 3

The question is not annoying. It is just the product of the linear thinking of a finite mind. The bible teaches us that God is the Alpha and the Omega. The beginning and the end. He had no creator. He said there were no other Gods before him. He said he is God and knows not another. He is not a man that he should lie. He always was and always will be. Amen. (Amen means, this is so.)

Answer 4

well you could either say that there was some creator that created god, then you would ask what created that creator... or if you find an answer you would have the question of who created the creator of god...
or if you want to assume that something has just always existed that created us all... why not just assume that existence has always existed and cut out the middle-man... the simplest explanation is usually the right one. That doesn't mean that a god doesn't exist though - it just means that we have no creator. I believe in multiple gods...

Answer 5

The Great Grand Creator created the Grand Creator who created the Creator. The Creator invented the Great Grand Creator out of the curvature of the space-time continuum. At least that's what the Grand Creator told me. This is most definitely an answer, trust me.

Answer 6

The awful truth, the truth that no human, and so far no computer, can ever wrap it's "mind" around is that everything that IS always WAS, that there was no beginning and will be no end. We say, "But something has to start somewhere - something cannot come from nothing." But not if there was never a nothing and never a beginning - a concept which we just can't visualize.

And yet if there IS something now, there must have always been something that the present something came from - and if so, there was never a beginning that somehow created that eternal something.

Answer 7

Its actually a good question, and the answers are useful. "God has always been", "God is infinite", "God is the thing which creates, not which is created" -- but all this does really beg the question.

Is there anything that we encounter in the natural universe --anything-- which is eternal? Physics now gives us a pretty clear timeline for the universe. . . so you might equally ask: If God is eternal, what was he doing for the eternity before this Universe came into existence (some 14 billion years ago +/-)

So we have an eternal God in a finite Universe. . .does that make sense?

Answer 8

It is a dam good question and one I've asked before. you'll get Christians mad at you for this one. Some things are not to be asked evidently. Just follow blindly into the light.
If God was the creator than he was either created which would make him an alien being large and powerful enough to create universes for his creators. Or he was a product of the same thing we are. Evolution.

Answer 9

The creator of something is necesarilly uncreated by that something.

If by creation we mean the physical universe, then this physical universe cannot be the creator of an unphysical creator. In the realm of the spiritual, we have no way of verifying anything. The spiritual realm is just linearly independent from our physical existence. So God's spiritual existence cannot be totally explained with the use of explanation from our physical existence.

It's like an ant discovering the inner working of human society. An impossible feat for an ant. But of course we can always describe the inner working of the antly society. So God can explain His creation, but His creation cannot explain Him.

Answer 10

No matter whether there's a god or not, we're left with the same exact mystery: the fact that something always existed. When I was a kid I would think about this and try to solve it and would get blown away (and panicky) when I realized the implications. I would take god out of the picture and still be left with the fact that something (process, potential, whatever) had to always exist. My friend recently thought he resolved the issue (like many do) when he took god out of the equation. I made him realize that he's left with the same exact problem/mystery -- the fact that something (again, process, potentiial, whatever) always existed. For those who really consider it, it's unanswerable, scary, and mind-blowing.

Answer 11

Really this question is not annoying or childish, it just easy too answer he’s always been. Way too easy actually. Look I know this is very deep but try this on. Assuming you believe in God and want to “return” to him. You know that no unclean thing can enter his presence. So Our ultimate goal is to become like Christ, like God. Well, if that’s the case that would make us a God also since we are like him and “perfect”. That being said, we can become “gods”, then it’s very possible that he became God the very same way. He was once like us. Makes since, in that he knows us, really knows us.

However two points to make; one, this type of knowledge doesn’t help or hurt getting to “heaven”. Second, all that really matters is what you research, ask and believe. Good luck