Who Made God?

The Bible makes it clear that God exists in eternity.

The Bible makes it clear that God exists in eternity. He has always existed. He didn’t have a beginning. There are many verses of Scripture that attest to the fact that God is everlasting—he is eternal.

Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. (Isaiah 40:28)

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. (Psalm 90:2)

To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. (1 Timothy 1:17)

The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. (Deuteronomy 33:27)

Once at a conference, I had a boy about ten years of age come up and ask me, “Sir, if God created us, who created God?” How do you answer that question for a young child?

Well, I said to him, “If someone made God, then you would have to have a bigger God.”

The boy replied, “Yes, sir.”

I said, “But now you have a problem—who made the bigger God? You would then need a bigger, bigger God who made the bigger God who made God.” I then went on, “Who made the bigger, bigger God? Now you would need a bigger, bigger, bigger God who made the bigger, bigger God who made the bigger God who made God.” The young boy understood.

We could keep going back with bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger forever . . . and then have to keep going. The only thing that makes sense is to have the biggest God of all—the infinite, eternal God of the Bible. The only one true God who has always existed. He had no beginning.

Now, that is difficult, impossible really, for us to understand because we are created, finite beings. The space, mass, time universe we live in was created. We think in terms of everything having a beginning because we are finite beings who had a beginning. This means there will always be a faith aspect to understanding who God is. We can’t scientifically prove God exists in an absolute sense because we don’t have all information. Only God does. That’s why God’s Word states,

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. (Hebrews 11:6)

It’s important to understand, however, that this is not blind faith. It’s a faith that makes sense of what we observe in this world. Observational science, in many ways, confirms this faith over and over again (but that’s for another blog).

It’s a faith that makes sense of what we observe in this world. Observational science, in many ways, confirms this faith over and over again.

Note that when you begin reading the first book of the Bible, it states, “In the beginning, God. . . .” In other words, God’s Word starts with God. He exists. He was not created. God’s Word doesn’t set out to prove God exists; it states God exists! He is and as he states repeatedly in Scripture, “I am.”

I explain all of this, including the faith aspect, to secularists when they ask me that question about who made God. But then I ask them questions about what they believe.

After my debate with Bill Nye (TV’s “The Science Guy”) in 2014 at the Creation Museum, we took questions that were submitted by audience members. One of the questions came from a young boy who asked, “Where did matter come from?” Bill Nye responded, “I don’t know. It’s a great mystery.” I answered, “There is a book [the Bible] that tells us where matter came from.”

Atheists may mock at Christians for believing in an eternal God, but what do they believe? Where did matter come from? Why does anything exist? Where did energy come from? Why does time exist? Why does space exist? Is matter eternal? Did matter suddenly come from nowhere for no reason? And how do they explain the laws of nature that are immaterial? And why do these laws stay the same and not evolve? Atheists ultimately have no answers! They can have all sorts of opinions and (blind faith) beliefs, but the bottom line is they have no definitive answer at all.

I remember atheist Richard Dawkins claiming it’s possible to postulate that life was seeded on earth by aliens from outer space. Obviously, atheists can’t explain how life on earth could arise from matter by chance random processes, so one of their ways around this is to claim life came from outer space. All they did was shift the origin of life on earth to another planet. But then we could ask where the aliens from another planet that seeded life on earth came from? Well, maybe other aliens seeded life on that planet to become aliens that would seed life on earth. But then where did the aliens that seeded life on that other planet come from? Were there other aliens that seeded life on that planet so aliens could arise to seed life on another planet so aliens could arise and seed life on earth? I think atheists would be happy to believe in eternal aliens but not an eternal God. And that’s because to believe in the eternal God is to accept he created us, owns us, and sets the rules. Thus, abortion is murder, marriage is one man and one woman, etc. These atheists want to be their own god, so they will accept all sorts of ridiculous ideas rather than believe the obvious—“In the beginning, God . . . .”

God loved man so much, he provided a way of salvation for man so his sin could be forgiven and he would be able to spend eternity with the eternal God.

It’s the atheists who have a blind faith. They believe that space, mass, and time somehow eternally existed or came into existence for some reason and somehow matter gave rise to life against everything we observe and know about the laws of nature.

As I’ve said many times, atheism is a religion, a belief system. There is no non-religious position. Atheists have a faith, but it’s a blind, incredulous faith. Christians have faith, but it’s an objective faith that makes sense of life and the universe and a faith that observational science confirms.

Where do you put your faith?

In eternal matter?

In eternal aliens?

Or in the eternal God who created all things and created the first man and woman?

The first man, the head of the human race, rebelled against God, bringing sin and death into the world. But God loved man so much, he provided a way of salvation for man so his sin could be forgiven and he would be able to spend eternity with the eternal God.

Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. (Isaiah 40:28)

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)

Get Equipped to Give Answers

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Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.