Who Made God?

There are so many different beliefs about life and faith in our world today. These beliefs are known as worldviews. You’re reading this right now through the lens of your own worldview. The three broadest categories of worldviews today are: Theism (God made all), Pantheism (god is all and all is god), and Atheism (there is no god at all).

Over the last few weeks we've looked at the evidence that shows the God of theism, specifically the God of Christianity, is the only true God that exists. Based on solid philosophy we saw that God is pure existence and a necessary Being. Based on evidence from science, we saw that He is super-powerful and super-intelligent, and based on the moral law written on our consciences we saw that He is morally perfect. We ultimately saw that it is reasonable to believe that God exists, and we showed that all is not God and God is not all. He is as different from the world as a painter is from his painting. But if God does exist, and He made everything, then who made God?

That seems like a reasonable question as first blush. Even trained thinkers with PhD's from prestigious universities make this mistake. We do live in a world of cause and effect, but Christians do not claim that everything that exists has or needs a cause. Christians claim that everything that begins to exist has a cause. God is not self-caused, He is uncaused and eternal. There are only three options. Everything is either caused, self-caused, or uncaused. God cannot be caused because that leads to an infinite number of causes which is impossible. As we saw last week, there must be an initial “causer” in the very beginning. He can’t be self-caused because you have to exist in order to cause something. Something can’t preexist itself. Therefore, God must be uncaused. God is completely self-existent. He calls Himself the great “I AM” in Exodus 3:14. Psalm 90:2 says, “Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.”

God did not create the universe, or you, to fill any need He had in Himself. He is perfect in every way, lacking nothing. He created us in order to have a relationship with us. He did not begin, He will not end, and we should praise Him for it.

For His glory,
Adam Tucker