Who created God?

Question

This is a quesiton no one seems to answer. I just curious to what everyone has to say.. I think when we go to heaven God will answer that. But i am curious to whatever thinks..

Answer 1

For God to come from something He could not be God.

To understand God as a being who was created is not to understand God at all. If God could be made by something else, then God would be less than God - a logical contradiction.

The finite requires the infinite (which makes believing in God intuitively plausible.)

Answer 2

The atheist Bertrand Russell wrote in his book "Why I am Not a Christian" that if it is true that all things need a cause then God must also need a cause. He concluded from this that if God needed a cause then God was not God (and if God is not God then of course there is no God). This was basically a slightly more sophisticated form of the childlike question, "Who made God?" Even a child knows that things do not come from nothing, so if God is a "something" then He must have a cause as well, right?

The question is tricky because it sneaks in the false assumption that God came from somewhere and then asks where that might be. The answer is that 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.

How do we know this? Well, we know that from nothing, nothing comes. So if there was ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence then nothing would have ever come to exist. But things do exist. Therefore, since there could never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been existing. That ever-existing thing is what we call God.

Answer 3

"Who made God?" Even a child knows that things do not come from nothing, so if God is a "something" then He must have a cause as well, right?

The question is tricky because it sneaks in the false assumption that God came from somewhere and then asks where that might be. The answer is that 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.



How do we know this? Well, we know that from nothing, nothing comes. So if there was ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence then nothing would have ever come to exist. But things do exist. Therefore, since there could never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been existing. That ever-existing thing is what we call God

Answer 4

To one who examines the evidence, there can be no doubt that God exists. Every building has a builder. Everything made has a maker. The fact of the existence of the Creator is axiomatic (self-evident). That’s why the Bible says, "The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God’" (Psalm 14:1). The professing atheist denies the common sense given to him by God, and defends his belief by thinking that the question "Who made God?" can’t be answered. This, he thinks, gives him license to deny the existence of God.

The question of who made God can be answered by simply looking at space and asking, "Does space have an end?" Obviously, it doesn’t. If there is a brick wall with "The End" written on it, the question arises, "What is behind the brick wall?" Strain the mind though it may, we have to believe (have faith) that space has no beginning and no end. The same applies with God. He has no beginning and no end. He is eternal.

The Bible also informs us that time is a dimension that God created, into which man was subjected. It even tells us that one day time will no longer exist. That will be called "eternity." God Himself dwells outside of the dimension He created (2 Timothy 1:9, Titus 1:2). He dwells in eternity and is not subject to time. God spoke history before it came into being. He can move through time as a man flips through a history book.

Because we live in the dimension of time, logic and reason demand that everything must have a beginning and an end. We can understand the concept of God’s eternal nature the same way we understand the concept of space having no beginning and end—by faith. We simply have to believe they are so, even though such thoughts put a strain on our distinctly insufficient cerebrums.

Answer 5

The Jews. Before the Jewish people all cultures, every one, practiced pantheism. There were many gods all around them and they thought to create a deity that was bigger and stronger and more powerful. This worked to some degree... they forgot to ponder the arguemnt from evil that literally kills every monotheistic deity at some point. So the Jewish people created "God", and the ten commandments put back the other gods. "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." That is a bold admission that there is no monotheistic God, since Moses screwed it all up by getting it in writing. Somebody tied God's shoe laces together on that one. HeHe.

Answer 6

If one would imagine God not as some being or some personafied entitiy, rather as a force of creativity, then a force of creativity can only be created by itself. God by definition is the creator of all things, therefore God is the epidamy of creativity. The force or source of creativity must have been developed when the first thing was developed. Therefore the creative force must have created itself when the first thing was created. I hope that wasn't too confusing.

Answer 7

Surprisingly, this question comes up a lot, and I've answered it quite a few times.

The fault is in the question. It assumes a false premise. The premise is "God was created." The better question would be "Was God created." which can be better answered scripturally. But when you make the assumption that God was created, you close off the true answer.

Answer 8

Think about this. For any life to exist, someone or some power has to be eternal. If someone created God, then the power that created him would be the eternal one. Then, if someone else created that someone, that power would be the eternal one. No matter how far back you go, someone or some power has to be eternal. The God of the Bible claims He is that Eternal One. He claims to have no beginning. One of the problems is that the human mind cannot comprehend eternity.

Answer 9

as far as we know(sparing quantum theory) we live in a universe of four dimensions: x,y,z and the fourth dimension being space-time. This universe of space and time had a beginning, the latest and greatest scientific evidence supports this("Big Bang"). Before/Beyond the singularity, the begining of this universe, there is no time there is no space.
If there is a Creator/God, and I believe there is, It must exist beyond this universe as nothing can cause itself. Similarly, something within the unievrse can not create the universe. Therefore God must exist beyond the fabric of space-time meaning God is timeless. This makes alot of sense, God Is. When God revelead His name to Moses He said I AM WHO AM. I AM. God Is.
Similarly it is often said that God is perfect(complete) and unchanging. This makes sense because as far as we know only within the confines of space and time do the laws of thermodynamics apply including those dealing with change and decay. think about it and alot of things make sense. God is spirit, our world is material. Spirit is immaterial, it is eternal and unchanging essentially because it exists beyond space and time. The way that our material world and the immaterial world interact is a mystery and has baffled philosophers for thousands of years.
Spirit is not "energy" as alot of new age movements may say because is energy not simply another form of matter(E=MC^2)? No the very idea of spirit suggests the immaterial.

In short, nothing created God, God always existsed, exists and always will exist. But not within the confines of time. Ideas difficult to grasp with our Euclidian minds. The very fact that we can speculate is amazing.

Answer 10

That's a damn good question that deserves pondering. Nobody knows the answer. All these Christian zealots know is biblical baloney. I am open to many possibilities....even the likelihood that there are several gods, and perhaps a line of gods. Then there would be the question of "who created the first god?"