Who Created God?

Have you ever seen or heard of a sheep just taking a seat on a mountain top and being amazed at the marvel of a sunset? Have you ever seen a group of elephants huddle up together to watch the stars at night? Or even still, have you ever seen a cat wandering around just looking at and smelling the beauty of colourful flowers?

Probably not. We don’t see them just taking time out to enjoy and watch the beauty of Gods creation and think ‘wow, who could have made this?’ But we humans do have this inner-sense of awe and fascination. This is something that is only unique to humans. We like to climb mountains and watch sunsets. We like to visit zoos and marvel at creatures. We enjoy looking at beautiful art or flowers.

This sense of awe is even in, wait for, atheists believe it or not. The following is a quote from the British academic, atheist philosopher, Simon Blackburn:
“Despite being an atheist, I find a lot of things arouse a sense of the sacred in me. Works of art or music, sublime grand spectacles in nature, the starry heavens above and the moral law within, the oldest human skulls in Kenya or the newest human baby in a maternity ward can all be fitting objects of different kinds of awe and reverence.”

So the very question ‘who made God?’ comes from a sense of searching which God has put within us and which is unique to mankind. I mean, who is asking this kind of question in the first place? We can’t say for sure that animals don’t think about this question, but it seems like the type of question which is unique to the inquisitive human mind. Therefore the question is a good question which is asked by many sceptics and sincere seekers.

The simple answer to the question is ‘no one created God’. God is not created and has not been created. What’s God cannot be created, because if He could be created then He wouldn’t really be God. God has always existed and is the reason (first cause) everything else exists. If you trace everything that exists back to its first cause, you will find that it weaves its way back to the Creator God.

Bara is to fashion
The Hebrew word used in Genesis 1:1 for created is ‘bara’ (bah’rah). Bara’ means to create, form or fashion, to produce something. Originally the word conveyed the idea of ‘carving’, ‘cutting out’ or ‘sculpturing’. Now, when people ask the question ‘who made God?’ what they are really asking is – who fashioned, sculptured, carved out God. Who designed and then brought God into being?

He was not made like you and I are made. Only things that had a beginning – like the chairs you are sitting on, or the cars you drive or the whole universe – need a creator. But because God has no beginning or no end, God did not need to be made.

Fallen Minds
Our minds, because they are finite, limited and fallen through sin cannot grasp the idea of an eternal God, existing independently, uncreated and not dependant on anything such as time. When I was a little boy I used to go off into these long daydreams and think – my parents were made by their parents, and their parents were made by their parents and their parents were made by their parents and so on and so forth. And then I would get to point of ‘so then where did it all start?’ At that time I got myself a little confused by know I know the truth that the chain does have a starting point and the God of the Bible is the author.

No explanation necessary
Asking this question is similar to asking ‘to whom is the bachelor married?’ Nevertheless, the questions still begs an answer and thank God for the Bible, for within it we find the truth. However, you have to understand something very important is going on in the Bible. The ministry of apologetics seeks to give a defence of the Christian faith by answering questions and providing rational explanations for things. However, from my study of the Bible I find that it doesn’t give any defence or rational explanation for the existence of God, it is just an unquestionable reality.

God’s existence and self-revelation is the ultimate assumption of biblical Christianity. The Bible shows that it is God who does all the creating and no where do you see Gods Word trying to prove or even explain that God was created.

Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?” And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’” (Exodus 3:13-14)

I am the Lord and there is no other. There is no God besides Me.(Isaiah 45:5)

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