If God is the creator of everything, who created God?

Question

It's a mind boggleing question but im interested in what everyone has to say.

Answer 1

I havent yet created a God..

Answer 2

First, let's begin with the Biblical answer. Take a look at Rev 22:13; words spoken by God Himself: "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end." God didn't say I have a beginning, He said, I am the beginning. That means that there was nothing before God.

We can further prove that point by bringing out the flaws in the question. I love how GotQuestions.com puts it:

...The question does not even make sense. It is like asking, "What does blue smell like?" Blue is not in the category of things that have odor, so the question itself is flawed. In the same way, God is not in the category of things that are created, or come into existence, or are caused. God is uncaused and uncreated - He simply exists.

Another problem with this question is that if you use it to go further backwards, you could go on forever. "If God created the world and some else created God, and someone else created the someone who created God, and someone else created the someone else who created...." This is actually a problem with many arguments that atheists give, including "the earth came from the Big Bang." Well then, where did the Big Bang come from? Obviously, there's something wrong with these statements because they cannot have definite answers.

As we have found out, the question, "who created God?" is weak. No-one did. Now, comes the matter of proving that, which is actually pretty easy. Let's walk through it step-by-step. For someone to create God, there would have to be someone before God. However, 'before' and 'after' are measures of time. It is necessary for time to exist to allow there to be a 'before.' The Bible says that God created all things, and therefore created time itself. Time came into existance only after God created it; God Himself lives outside of time. If God lives outside of time, He is not a product of time. 'Before' is impossible without time, therefore, there was nothing before God, and no one to create Him.

Answer 3

Obviously humans came up with the concept of "God" as a leader and creator. I'm not trying to disprove thre is a God but humans created the idea.

Answer 4

God is creation.

Don't think of God as a separate entity. You're part of God, God is part of you...it's fun to have philosophical debates, but don't get too caught up in it.

And don't assume God is some guy sitting on a cloud. God is goodness, love, conscience, light, understanding...that goes through everything. Or should, anyway.

Don't limit your idea of God--you'll never understand God if you do (and I say "God" just because it's convenient. God isn't a man.)

Answer 5

There is no beginning or end to God, so nobody could have created him/her, because there was never a time he didn't exist. Time does not even exist in ultimate reality...only in the physical universe, which is actually an illusion.

Answer 6

No one created God. He was here ever since the beginning of time, even before time. He created the universe and its beings.

Answer 7

That is what has always driven me away from religion. I just cannot grasp how everything was created by God, but there is no explanation as to how God was created.

Answer 8

Thats like asking who created the devil. In the bible genesis, it only jumps into a section and talks about adam and eve then about a serpent that decieved them into disrespecting God. No one told how the serpent came to be.

Answer 9

God is eternal, that means He always existed. No one created Him. Being His creation with a specific point of becoming, we can not even begin to understand.

Answer 10

Its probably like trinity, some people just can't comprehend how God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost can be one and work seperately (counsel of Nicea). So God does not tell us these things, because we cannot comprehend them. Maybe when we die, he will explain everything.