Since God obviously didn't just materialize from nothing, who or what made Him?

Question

Somehow, I doubt I'm going to get a satisfactory answer to this question.

Answer 1

The reason you probably are not going to be satisfied with the answer to your question is because your question has a wrong assumption. Say, just for the sake of discussion that some other being did make God. Then you would still have the question of who or what made that being and the being before it and on and on. Either there is one first uncaused cause of all of Creation whom we refer to as God or the universe has just always existed and it makes no logical sense.

Matter has just always been here it has always existed and there is no reason for it being here it just "is".

I don't know about you, but that's why even though I had never been to church for the first 40 plus years of my life I was never an atheist. It didn't make sense to me that matter never had an origin. Even if you hold to the big bang theory you are still only pushing the problem back in time. Where did the matter and/or energy to make a "big bang" come from? God says that He exists outside of time and space and has always existed and if that too sounds illogical at least it makes more sense because it tells us that the four dimensions that we base our thinking upon are really just a limited area of our perceptions and that outside of what we can see or experience there is a being who claims to have the answers for us.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning (before the creation of this universe) with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Answer 2

Haha. Funny question. Guess wat - I'd say you are looking at the wrong end of the telescope. Question, really should be, since Man didnt materialize from nothing, who or what made him?

But for sake of argument, lets stick with your view - and start with man and the created world as the origin. In this case, what makes God? People's beliefs do. And what is the origin of a belief - a thought.

When a thought is supplanted with faith, it gains strength and it eventually becomes a belief and that results in the God we know. Yet what is it that empowers the thought that causes the thought to manifest or materialize? What is this mysterious power that can cause thought to materialize.

The source of thought ie the unseen power that seems to drive the realization of that thought-faith-belief system ie. God is one and the same.

Observe yourself and trace your thoughts. Your thoughts either come from the world, through bookish knowledge, other's teachings or it comes from within you as though from nothing. That "nothing" in modern thought often terms that as creativity.

You exist today as a human being because of a thought that arose somewhere at somepoint. Take away that thought and what you are left behind is what is called God.

Good Luck!

Answer 3

Assuming that physical laws would apply to God, that question would be impossible to answer--perhaps that is the perfection of God--where does the beginning and the ending of all things come from?

Or this classic: "What Came First, The Chicken Or The Egg?"

Answer 4

If you ascribe to Gnostic teachings, such as Mormonism or ancient Paganism, each god comes from a progenitor god. Zeus, for example, was fathered by Cronos. The Mormon God was decended from another God of another Planet, etc. There isn't really an ultimate "Beginning God".

In the Abrahamic Religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, God has no predecessor. He is the very energy of Existence.

Answer 5

I doubt it too- This question is asked about every second day.

There is space dust.
There was a Primordial Soup.
There was the Protoplasmic Globule.
There was NOTHING, NOTHING , NOTHING in the beginning.

So I guess (without a first event GOD) absolutely nothing exists.

I suppose one just has to think it through-- from front to back-- to come to a ONE SINGLE ORIGIN of EVERYTHING.

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Strange-- the First Scroll In the Original Jewish Scriptures starts out;

YOM ELOHIM.
Translates to ""BEGINNING GOD"".



THINK it OUT!

Answer 6

Ya know, that is just something no one will be able to answer until we see God face to face. The fact that we don't have an answer for that shows just how God is God and we are not. I can see Him now looking down at us laughing at the fact that we can't even figure it out. He has a great sense of humor.

Answer 7

He always was. However, it is an interesting question, seeing as how I keep hearing people saying the universe was formed from nothing at the Big Bang. But God had to have a creator. Curious.

Answer 8

A physical God honestly does not exist.
However, many people generate a mental concept of God as an attempt to explain what is going on around them, i.e. what a normal, sane person does with science.

Answer 9

God is known as the Father. Where there is a father, there is a son and vice versa. God the Father has omnipotent parents too.

Answer 10

Why do you assume that God needs to have a beginning?

Just because things that are part of the physical reality do?

Love and blessings Don