Answer to: "If God created everything, what created God? Was he there from the start, or did someone or something else create him?"
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It's been a SUPER long time since I wrote anything, and I apologize for that, but college has been super challenging.
Anyway, since mid-term is over (already?), I decided to post once again.
The topic of the day is what created God.
There are many sources out there that explain this concept very well.
My first source is John N. Clayton, a scientist and lecturer on God's existence. I found this information here.
To summarize his theory,
God was not created by anything. He has always existed. God created everything, including time and matter. Therefore, God was here before even time existed.
Another website has the same idea as Clayton, this one.
Many of the websites I found shared this idea of God creating everything, even time, therefore nothing created Him.
This next website is also a great source because it explains the atheistic point and then contradicts it. I thought this was such a great way of explaining it, you will see it pasted in here below.
Question: "Who created God? Where did God come from?"
Answer: 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.
My Opinion
My opinion on the topic is equal to these other opinions. God created everything, and was always around. Therefore, there's no reason to explain His existence.
Thanks for reading everyone! I will try to post every week! Send your questions!
Your Sister and Witness in Christ,
Emily
2 comments
I must agree with this. I just feel that one of the really cool things is that science as we understand it today actually proves God\'s existence! As was said above, their big bang theory, proves that the universe was created meaning something [God] had to create it. I mean how cool is that? :)
It is easy for humans to question the existance of God (definatly in bad and difficult times), but we must realise that God gave us all a free will and we make choices in our daily lives that can affect us for the rest of our lives and we cannot blame God for our decisions and mistakes that WE made (our own decisions), God cannot do everything for us, he cannot rule the earth and heavens and want\'s us to obey and serve him if he can control our thoughts and every move we make, he did not greate robots, he greated humans to think for themself, but through our mistakes and wrong decisions in life we can Know that He will always be there to comfort, guide and protect us, (maybe not protect our flesh/body) but he will protect our soul and our soul will live with Him for eternity.