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If God created the universe then who created God?

If God created the universe, then who created God? Isn't it true that everything must have a beginning?

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Anonymous

Dec 15, 2024

I like to think of God as a circle. (I know it’s weird but it helps me understand) A circle has no beginning and no end, right? It’s still a bit confusing, because us humans don’t have the brains to understand, and we won’t until we get to heaven. But if something DID create God, which it didn’t, then you would ask, who created the thing that created God? Eventually something would have to not have been created, would have to have no beginning and no end. That is God.

Sorry if this is all a bit confusing but I hope it helps you to understand.

God is all-powerful, omnipresent. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. This must mean that He is everything. He also created the world, the universe, and every universe that has every existed! If God is everything and He created everyone, what could have created Him? Something would have to be more than everything to create God, and that can’t be.

God is not created, He is the creator. He simply is.

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Anonymous

Dec 27, 2024

Who Made God?

Picture a father talking with his seven-year-old son. He says, “Long, long ago, God made the earth and everything in it, and he made the sun, the moon, and the stars.” The boy thinks about this for a few moments and then asks, “Daddy, who made God?”

“Nobody made God,” the father replies. “He has always existed.” That simple statement satisfies the child for now. As he grows older, however, the question continues to intrigue him. He finds it hard to comprehend how anyone could be without a beginning. Why, even the universe had a beginning. ‘Where did God come from?’ he wonders.

How does the Bible answer? Essentially, in much the same way as did the father in our example. Moses wrote: “O Jehovah, . . . before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the productive land, from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.” (Psalm 90:1, 2) Likewise, the prophet Isaiah exclaimed: “Do you not know? Have you not heard? Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, is a God for all eternity”! (Isaiah 40:28) Similarly, the letter of Jude refers to God as existing “for all past eternity.”—Jude 25.

Those scriptures show us that God is “the King of eternity,” as the apostle Paul describes him. (1 Timothy 1:17) This means that God has always existed, no matter how far back in time we cast our gaze. And he will always exist in the future. (Revelation 1:8) Thus, his eternal existence is a fundamental attribute of the Almighty.

Why do we find this idea difficult to grasp? Because our limited life span gives us a completely different concept of time from that of Jehovah. Because God is eternal, to him a thousand years are like a day. (2 Peter 3:8) To illustrate: Could a grasshopper, which lives as an adult for only about 50 days, fathom our life span of 70 or 80 years? Hardly! Yet, the Bible explains that we are like grasshoppers in comparison with our Grand Creator. Even our ability to reason is dwarfed by his. (Isaiah 40:22; 55:8, 9) So it is not surprising that there are aspects of Jehovah’s nature that escape full human understanding.

Although the concept of an eternal God may be hard to grasp, we can see that it makes sense. If someone else had created God, that person would be the Creator. Yet, as the Bible explains, Jehovah is the one who “created all things.” (Revelation 4:11) Furthermore, we know that the universe at one time did not exist. (Genesis 1:1, 2) Where did it come from? Its Creator had to exist first. He also existed before there were any other intelligent beings, such as his only-begotten Son and the angels. (Job 38:4, 7; Colossians 1:15) Clearly, then, he existed alone first. He could not have been created; nothing was in existence that could have created him.

Our own existence and that of the entire universe testifies to the existence of an eternal God. The One who put our vast universe in motion, the One who established the laws to control it, must have always existed. Only he could have breathed life into everything else.—Job 33:4.

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Anonymous

Jan 17, 2025

It may be hard to phantom, but God has no beginning and will have no end. From a humans’ point of view, the number of his years is beyond comprehension (Job36:26). God existed for all time, he was alone before creation had a beginning (Psalms90:1). In 1 Timothy 1:17 God is described as the king of eternity. Eternity means infinite or unending time. Think of outer space. Astronomers find no beginning or end to space. The farther they probe into the universe, the more there is. They don’t reject what the evidence shows; many refer to space as being infinite. The same principles applies to the existence of God.

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Anonymous

Jan 01, 2025

The Creator of the universe must be unique, because he is the source of everything else – in other words, a creator creates something when nothing existed but himself. However, his uniqueness lies in the fact that he has no beginning. He has always been here, and will continue to be. If this fact was not true, then he could not be the Creator, and we would have to look to someone else with the ability to create something from nothing.

We can take comfort from the fact that he wants us to communicate with him and that he does listen to the prayers of faith. This, more than reasoning out his existence,is one of the strongest evidences of God.

It is also why so-called “experiments” on faith and prayer will never work. Faith is not something that could be found in a laboratory jar – for example, you can’t try to determine how many cc’s of faith you need for a prayer to be answered. A person who has way more intelligence than we could even hope to have is the one in charge of whose prayers he will answer.

So any experiment which tries to determine how many prayers it takes for a sick person to become well, while counting up how many people are praying for that person, is vain at least and ridiculous at the most.

God, the one and only true God, created us and the universe, and he has a purpose for us. He is King of Eternity, and it is impossible to approach him without faith. He has no beginning, and will never have an end.

John 17:3

This means everlasting life, their coming to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

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Anonymous

Dec 27, 2024

There was no time when this eternal God didn’t exist, so it’s impossible to make this equation with the one and only God, nevertheless the Northern Irish mathematician, philosopher of science, Christian apologist, and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford “John Lennox” decide to join in by this and gave this question back to Stephen Hawkins.

John Lennox response:If God would be created in an universe, who created the universe where anyone created God???

CONCLUSION:Questions like this one are senseless and to lead to endless discussions woithout result for both sides, so it’s better you try to argue with “facts”, as opposed to start senseless conversations without generally valids for anyone.

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Anonymous

Feb 02, 2025

And who created who created God XD you’re going into an infinite cycle son…. Why can’t you understand that God is nothing like HIS ALL MIGHTY’s creations…God Describes Himself as The Most Powerful The Most High, He All Mighty is The Beginning and End… Exalted is He…He’s nothing like His creations… Therefore He Can never be a creature or a creations

Im not very religious, but this question has always bothered me, and the only answer that I am partially satisfied with (if he exists) is that for there to be a beginning, time must exist. Time is something that God created. We as humans can’t see it any other way because thats how we are born to see things. Our world it temporary because there is time, our world has a beginning, we have a beginning, and we will have an end. But if you believe God exists then he must be a master of time. To us things have to be created for it to exist. But there is so much we don’t know and understand. There must be a realm or idea or entity that has no beginning or end. The idea of creation was invented by God.

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Kelton Sporer

Jan 11, 2025

First of all you must understand that we are created beings, not God. (The word ‘created’ is self-explanatory.) That doesn’t comes under natural way of life. We are not natural but unnatural beings. I mean we are just robots made of different materials (flesh, bones, tissues etc.,). There are ever existing eternal beings which knew neither death nor birth and God is the chief of these eternal beings. In fact this is the real ever existing phenomenon. “Who created God?” is not at all a sensible question. Human beings can think only like human beings. But to know certain truths humans must come out of this circle and think freely and independently.

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Anonymous

Jan 08, 2025

Moses said in prayer to Jehovah: “You have always been, and you will always be.” (Psalm 90:2, The Holy Bible, New Century Version) Here Moses describes God’s existence as stretching in two directions. One is toward the future. Jehovah is “the One that lives forever and ever.” (Revelation 4:10) Thus, God’s existence stretches forward into the eternal future. The other is toward the past. In other words, God was neither created nor did he come into existence. Rather, God’s existence stretches back into the infinite past. Abstract ideas are hard for most of us to comprehend. Yet, we sometimes deal with challenging concepts, such as positive and negative numbers. Counting numbers can go on endlessly, either up or down. Could we not apply this example to the years in the life of the Creator? It is therefore fitting that only God bears the unique title “King of eternity.” (1 Timothy 1:17)

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