Bible Question: Who created god? Many people say that he was just here, but then again how does something just get there. |
Bible Answer: Let's suppose for a moment that some star-gazer in the mountains of Tibet came up with an answer to who created God, and he says that Blob-Blob created God. We would then have to ask, "Then who created Blob-Blob?" And he says, "Well, Bo-Nang created Blob-Blob." And on we go in a never-ending string of questions that can have no final answer..... Thus the question, "Who created God?" is hopeless and self-defeating from the very beginning. The Bible never questions the existence of God and affirms from cover to cover that God is from everlasting to everlasting. I'm not prepared to say that occasional excursions into the realm of imagination about the nature of God constitute idolatry (Children do it all the time and rare is the parent whose child has not asked, "Who made God?" or "Where did God come from?" and the like). I am convinced, however, that any human attempt to define God outside of the book in which God reveals as much of himself as he chose to is an exercise in futility. In my day I've read a considerable amount of philosophy. In none of it have I learned as much about God as the Bible reveals about him...... We are created, and we find it beyond our natural ability really to conceive of and fully understand anything that is not created. We are in a time prison, and we find it equally difficult to grasp the concept of timelessness. We speak of eternal life, but how fully do we really understand the idea of eternity? It has always been a little easier for me to think of eternity as never having an end than to think of it as never having a beginning either -- as with God never having a beginning, as having always existed from everlastig to everlasting. That's more than my finite mind can handle. I can't fully understand it. But I can, and do, fully believe that God is God, eternal, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father. He is sovereign, the Creator and not the created. --Hank |