Who made god?

Question

The answer I hear from people is that god is eternal and has always been.......how is this possible, some1 must have made him.......but who made who made god n so on?

Answer 1

When a bunch of people with nothing and nothing to do, who felt lost, miserable and useless got together to form an idea of something supposedly superior to them, that looks over them and keeps them safe. They came up with praying, also, so they could feel better knowing that their superior will listen to them and help them (even though its not true).

Answer 2

God is unfathomable. For centuries we've been trying to get a handle on God and many intelligent people have dedicated their entire lives, spent years thinking and writing and discussing in order to get closer to understanding God, including this question of how God came to be.

So, of course, I have no idea what the answer is to your question. But, personally, I feel it's such an important one that I can't ignore it. Just because I don't know doesn't mean there isn't an answer. For me, so far, everything about God is outside my comprehension except that God is love. I can't understand God but I can understand love. That's my starting place.

Answer 3

Surah 112. Al-Ikhlas
1. Say: He is Allah, the One!
2. Allah, the eternally Besought of all!
3. He begetteth not nor was begotten.
4. And there is none comparable unto Him.

Answer 4

I think it was Esrah the dodgy builder.
Didn't finish the job properly, just went off and made loads of other gods for other folks...all fairly substandard.
They did a spot on Rogue Traders all about him.

Answer 5

A perfect circle does not have a beginning or an end point. Our idea of God is created by ourselves. God is uncreated and needs no creator.

Answer 6

No one made god he has always been there but i can see what you mean it is hard to accept as it does not seem logical that he was not created by something and maybe he was but we shall never know unless you get to meet him, then you could ask him how he came about and if you do meet him could you please let me know what he says? Thanks and good luck with your search for the answer!!

Answer 7

Therein lies the fatal flaw of the creation argument.

If the universe required creation, logic demands the creator required creation, ad infinitum.

But, thumpers aren't known for their logic.

The answer to your question is that humans invent Gods in their own images.

Answer 8

God was inveneted by people to explain the inexplicable and justify the unjustifiable.

Answer 9

During ancient times, when people thought the world was geocentric (the universe revolves around the Earth), astronomers would look up at the sky and see all the stars travelling uniformly. But their were a few "wandering stars". They did not follow the path of most every other star in the sky... There were 7 things in the Sky that didn't follow the path of stars. The Sun, the Moon, and 5 planets. The word planet actually means wanderer. Today, we don't regard the Sun and Moon as planets, but in ancient times the term applied to all 7 objects in the sky. The Sun and Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Many ancient cultures regarded these planets as representatives or symbols of the gods that controlled their lives. This religion is called Astrology, which is still used today.

The geocentric view was what almost everybody believed until the Renaissance (Middle Ages). After all it was simple, logica, and seemingly self-evident. Furthermore, the geocentric percpective reinforced those philosophical and religious systems that taught the unique role of human beings as the central focus of the cosmos. But we all know today that this view is wrong. Our solar system is Heliocentric (Sun is the center).

Ancient philosephers often pondered the meaning of life. I think socrates was the first to believe in a life after death. He believed that the body is a prison, and a distraction. He was always seeking eternel knowledge and truth, and believed he could never find it because he was too distracted by the body. The body spent too much time craving and needing things. Things like food, and sins of the flesh. So, he believed after death, when you depart from the body, you will no longer be distracted and know eternal truth. Plato used "the Allegory of the Cave" to explain this. That, everything on Earth is a copy from the Heavens, and we are prisoners in a cave looking at the back of the cave. Behind us a fire burns and puppeteers make shadows on the wall that the prisoners see. The prisoners were born in prison, and all they have seen their entire lives were shadow puppets, so they think this is what reality is. One day one prisoner is freed and exits the cave, and sees real reality. When the enlightened prisoner returns to free his in mates, he stumbles and looks like a fool, because his eyes need to once again adjust to the darkness, so he looks like a fool. So the prisoners are angered by this fool for trying to tell them something different is really real. The cave is our body. We are in prison. Real reality is Heaven. He did not believe in a God, but he believed in a Good. After death we know all that is good.

Aristotle studied under Plato, but had some different views. Plato thought that everything in the world existed in dualism. The shadows casted on the walls are a copy of something real created by the heavens. So, Plato thinks that everything on Earth is a copy of things in Heaven. Aristotle belived in Plurism, saying that things are not a copy from the Heavens, but things are goal orientated.. As in an example of an acorn. It starts as an acorn, but it's goal is to become a tree. Aristotle also believed in the Good, and believed that the Good was our goal. This entity Aristotle called the Prime Mover. It serves as a kind of god in his metaphysics, but unlike the traditional gods of Greece and unlike the God of the Western religion, the Prime Mover is almost completley nonanthropomorphic. It is the cause of the univers, not in the Judeo Christian sense of creating it out of nothing, but in the sense of the final cause. Aristotle also came up with the seven deadly sins and seven virtues.

During the Roman Empire there was a small group of people called Christians. At this time theire numbers were small. Although they were a minority in the Empire, their religion was ever growing, because its promises resonates with the needs of people in all levels of society. It offered a direct and personal connection to divinity through the person of Jesus, the son of a carpenter; its communal basis offered an identity that was much more concrete than that obtained in the Roman Empire. But Christians had not yet learned to defend itself like it would in the middle ages.

Christianity was barely 400 years old during the middle ages. But the main books of the Hebrew Bible was already dated bacl 1,200 years. Judism itself developed out of earlier, tribal polytheistic (many gods) religions from which Judaism distinguished itself when it clained that there was but one God with whom to establish a special covenant. This covenant was the basis of a law that not only lays moral strictures (Ten Commandments), but also provides ritual governing dietary habits, marraige and funerary rites, prayers, sacrifices, and alms giving. The Torah (later called the Old Testiments by Christians) describes God's creation of the world,assigns humans place in the world, contains God's commandments, expresses his will, and relates a history of Jews. They also contain words of prophecies, among one of which is the coming of a savior of the Jews, Jesus Christ.

God was created by humans. God himself was derived from polytheistic times, and was then claimed to be the one true God. We all believe that more than one God does not exist, correct? Well, the one God that most people believe in came from a time when they believed more than one God existed. So, if you believe that many Gods were just made up, then the one God that was derived of these many made up gods must also be made up.

The question comes up "Who created the universe?" "God created the universe." "ok.. But who created God?" "God has always been, he has no beginning." Tell me, how is it believable that God has always been, but it is not believable that atoms or elements in the universe have no beginning? This concept is hard to believe because everything we know has a beginning and end, so to think the universe has no beginning is difficult to comprehend, but not impossible! Space and time have no beginning or end. planets and stars and so forth in the universe do have a beginning and end, but the elements that create them go on forever! Something cannot come from nothing. So the only thing that makes sense is that something has always been. You can choose to believe God is that someting, and he was never created and just has always been, and he was just sitting up in Heaven and decided he was bored with the nothingness of space and time and created a universe, if you want.

Answer 10

Don't search for the impossible, even though the impossible we know to be possible !!! What a paradox !! But that is what faith is - namely believing what can't be understood.