Who Made God?

If Everything that Exists Must Have a Cause, then Who or What Caused God?

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I told you I’d be discussing the reasons why I believe in Christianity and Jesus Christ and why I believe these are perfectly reasonable and rational beliefs to hold. For me, the best place to start so I can keep my thoughts in order would be the reasons why I believe that God exists at all...

There are several lines of reasoning that point to the existence of God…but before I get into that, I want to discuss a related question I hear all the time:

Everything that exists has a cause, right?  So if God is the cause of the universe, what or who made God?

On the surface, this sounds like a legitimate question. Once you scratch the surface, however, there is a major flaw in this line of thinking.

It is not a coherent question.

By definition, the concept of ‘God’ is that of a being that is an ‘Uncaused Cause‘.  An entity that always existed and never ‘came into being‘. A being that has no beginning and no end and that created the universe, time, and everything we see around us from nothing.

The question, “Who caused the uncaused cause?’ is an incoherent question akin to “Can God make a square circle?”  These are nonsensical questions in that they do not make logical sense. 

If the definition of ‘God’, at least by Christian and other monotheistic religions, includes the idea that he is eternal, never had a beginning, and is the ‘Uncaused Cause’ that made everything else, it just doesn’t make sense to ask where He came from. He just is.

Of course, if you believe that God doesn’t exist, then the question ‘Who made God?” has no meaning.  If you think there is no God, why would you question whether he had been ‘made’ or not. I’ll be addressing many reasons why I believe He does exist in the next few weeks.

Though it doesn’t do anything to ‘prove’ His existence, hopefully discussing this point may help prevent the misunderstood and incoherent argument that some atheists make against the existence of God when they pose the question of where he came from.

Once you understand what theists mean when they say ‘God‘, the question of who made Him becomes invalid. It’s part of the very definition of who and what He is.

And yes, as I alluded to earlier, there are things Christians believe God cannot do…like make a square circle, or lie and cheat…He made the world a certain way and the Bible teaches us a lot about the nature of God.  He cannot act in opposition to His nature (lie) and He cannot do something that is logically impossible (like make a square circle or make a mountain big enough that he can’t lift it)…but that’s a discussion for another day.

So everything that exists does not have a cause…there has to be a first cause that is uncaused…  A better way to say it would be “Everything that began to exist has a cause.”

So why do I say there has to be a first cause?  Why couldn’t there be a never-ending cycle of cause and effect that goes back in time to infinity?

Well… my wife’s overdue and we’re having a baby in the next couple of days (one way or the other) so I have lots of other things to do at the moment…we’ll have to talk about the reasons an infinite regress of past events is impossible in my next post…

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