I have a paper to write and was wondering: if since God created everything, who created God?

Question

I have a paper to write for class, and I keep getting the response that God has been around forever. Everything has to have had a starting point, and I would like to know what created God.

Any light that can be shed on this answer is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

It is not knowledge we have been given, as it is not necessary for our salvation.

Answer 2

My Opinion is as follows:

God, Universe and Time are like three parallel lines. They meet only at infinity (something which neither has a beginning or an end). God or this universe was neither created (by big bang or any other phenomenon) and niether will it ever end (so much for the doomsday predictions).

But yes the properties of nature rotates with time in a circular cycle and everything created (mountains, trees, animals and humans) has to have an end. Mountains wear out (and new ones form) and living beings die (and new ones are born). The cycle continues and will continue forever.
As for God, He is parallel to this system and thus he has always been there and will always be there.
Have faith in God. Thanks.

Answer 3

The correct answer if you are religious is God is the beginning and the end. The atheist answer would be that he is an alien of higher power who sometimes tinkers with our lives (ie there is no actual god) But this is a question with no answer because no one knows because we were not here to see when everything began if he actually created or was created by the universe.

Answer 4

The bible says God created the heavens and the earth. He had to exist before he could create anything. Time is an earthly concept.
Eternity has no time limit but goes on forever. God has always been
and always will be. As to the big bang theory, if the universe was formed in this way, who created the big bang?

Answer 5

That's a good and logical question to ask Victoria.

If you do not accept the dogma associated with statements without evidence like: God existed forever, you are on your way to becoming an independent thinker.

Ask yourself if you have to make one exception to the general rule that everything has to have a starting point, why not make several more? Why not postulate that the universe was always there, and eliminate the middle man?

Answer 6

This is a question I always love answering...

When we think of God, we automatically assume he must have a beginning, contrary to what the Bible says. But the only reason for this is because everything else in the universe, without exception, WAS created and had a beginning. God is the only thing that doesn't. It goes against our nature to believe that for this reason.

Answer 7

It may sound simplistic, but what you're saying is one of the proofs that there is no god.

If you claim that everything had a begining and that in order to exist everything must have been created, then it follows that god must have had a begining and had to be created.

But since there is no being without a begining (according to this logic) then there can be no god.

Ignacio

Answer 8

Through time, men had the need to explain and understand the world that surounds him. When he found things that he couldn't explain he atribuited them to a superior entity. It is much more clearer if tou take a look at ancient times, when there where a lot of gods, each one "spcialized" in a particular phenomen (just to pick up an example, in the greek panteon Zeus the god of thunder and ruler of Olympus, Hades god of the dead and ruler god of the underworld, and so on...).While time pased by the concept of god/gods evolved to the ones today's religions preach about. So i think that's it: men created god for his own need to explain and understand his own world... yep.. just so simple..

Answer 9

You have to undersand, Victoria, that God is not only our Creator, He is the very source of all that has come to be. He exists outside of space and time. For He created both space and time. He , therefore, is not confined to them. He was here and alive before the existance of time. God is a paradox, in that He does not HAVE a beginning- He IS the beginning. He did not make that first spark , He IS that first spark.

Answer 10

Your paper wouldn't be about God. It should be about the big bang. So rephrase it to say "if matter is not created or destroyed, where did the universe start from". If one tiny spec started it, where did it come from? When that answer is obtained then perhaps we'll work on where God came from.

Answer 11

The Bible says that He has always existed: " . . . even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God" (Psalm 90:2). And, "Your throne is established from of old; Thou art from everlasting" (Psalm 93:2). Quite simply, God has no beginning and no end. So, where did God come from? He didn't. He always was. Time began when God created the universe. Before that, God was simply existing and time had no meaning (except conceptually), no relation to Him. Therefore, to ask where God came from is to ask a question that cannot really be applied to God in the first place. Because time has no meaning with God in relation to who He is, eternity is also not something that can be absolutely related to God. God is even beyond eternity. Since God has no beginning or end, He has no beginning. This is because He is outside of time.