Who Made God?

Sometimes we discuss God and how He created everything: the universe, the atmosphere, humans, etc. with someone who is a bit critical of the Christian witness.  We will often get a comeback that sounds something like this: “Well, if God made everything, who made God?”

Sounds like a reasonable question doesn’t it? Let me give you a quick answer to the question.  We’re always looking for a quick response aren’t we.  The response can be something like this: “Let’s suppose someone did make God.  It doesn’t really matter who made Him.  He made you, and we are answerable to the God who made us and not to the person who made Him. What have you done with the commands He’s given you?”

The longer and more philosophical answer is a problem in logic.  The question presupposes a God who must have been created.  If we’re talking about the God of the Bible, we’re not talking about Someone who has been created but Who has always existed and always will (Ps. 9:7, 90:2).  So, there is a definition problem here.  The God we’re talking about is an infinite Being.  Infinite beings do not have a beginning, a creation.

The universe must have a point in time when it was created.  The universe cannot be eternal or we would have had to cross an infinite number of days to reach today.  Since it is impossible to cross an infinite number of days, the universe must have had a beginning.  For a finite universe to begin, an agent or person must have started the universe.  That Agent would, by nature, need to be more powerful than the universe as a whole (omnipotent) since He created it.  That Agent would need to know enough about all things and forces contained in the universe in order to create it (Omniscient).  And, He would need to be larger than the universe He has created in order to maintain it (Omnipresent).  He would also need to have been present “before” the creation of the universe and still alive today living outside of time as we know it (Eternal).  This would seem to be a good description of the God of the Bible.

 

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