Who Made God?

Theology really helps us here. Now by theology I am not merely refering to religion since theology also includes science. Theology helps us to see who God is and what He has revealed to us. Sceince can also teach us about God via the clues given to us in His creation. So first let me state that no one made God.

The very fact of God being who he is precludes him from being created, otherwise he would not be God. If God were created then the one that created him would be considered God and so forth and so on. The line would continue to go backward to infinite. This leads us to the question of the first cause. We could logically go backward in time and reason a cause for all of creation. However, we encounter a problem when we get to the creator himself. Who caused him? This brings us to the question again, "who made God."

God is self existent. He is eternal. He has no beginning and no ending. He always existed through all time. But what is that exactly, that is, all time? How would the creator of the universe measure time. The difficulty here is that we are creatures bound by time and space, but God is not, nor could he be if he were God. The concept of infinite troubles us sometimes (it least it troubles me sometimes as I try to put my mind around it).

There must be a first cause to all of creation. This first cause is God, the creator of all. He created the universe and everything in it. It's interesting that Albert Einstein along with other noted scientists and physicists of his day originally thought that the universe was infinite. However, even Einsteins theories of relativity showed the the universe was probably not infinite (that's when he introduced his famous fudge factor into his equations, which he later called the greatest blunder of his career). So the universe itself seems to have a first cause. But again, what caused the first cause?

Reason cannot encapsulate the first cause without God, who is uncaused. He is the beginning of all things. The book of Revelations uses the phrase "I am the Alpha and the Omega," which is to say, the beginning and the end. So no one made God. He has always existed and he made everything that exists (man-made things are only manipulations of things that already exist). He will also always exist in the future.

God is uncaused and he is not dependant on anything else, which makes sense considering that he is not caused. The Christian Bible also uses the term, "I AM that I AM" to describe God. God simply "is." He always is. He has always been here even before the creation of the universe. He is the uncaused creator and cause of all that exists.

- Pastor Bill