Without fear of contradiction, probably the most asked, as well as the most illogical, question an atheist or agnostic could ask a believer is: “Who Created God?” It may also be the most asked question a child asks his parent, when the child is thinking about his parent’s discussions with him about God and creation. So, I think, most folks who consider discussions about God and creation important, whether he’s an atheist or a believer, ‘who created God?’ is probably the most illogical of all illogical questions that could be asked. Why is that?
Well, the consensus among all believers is, God is eternal. This isn’t an opinion; it isn’t even a firm conviction. This is the believer’s worldview. Without it, nothing else makes sense. To the believer, God sits outside of time. However, one wishes to measure or define eternity, one cannot do that with time. Time is something that God created, according to Hebrews 1:2. It doesn’t exist with God. Therefore, to ask who created God? is a misnomer. God has no past or future. He lives eternally present. If he has no past, he couldn’t have been created. If he has no future, he cannot die. Nothing happens to God.
Consider for a moment the opening verse of the Bible: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth…” (Genesis 1:1). Whoever God is, he exists before time (the beginning). Moreover, he doesn’t require a place to live (heavens/space), because he isn’t a physical being made of earth/matter, which must take up space, if it exists! The beginning (time), and the heavens (space), and earth (matter) are the things God created (Genesis 1:1). Therefore, he isn’t subject to time, space or matter. These things were not only created by him, but are subject to his control/power. It isn’t so much that God can see far into the future, as it is the future, vis-à-vis our future, is ever present with him. It is always like seeing what’s in front of him, and we can say the same thing about the past. Time is something spent by man, not God.
Likewise, it isn’t so much that God is everywhere, as it is that space cannot limit the presence of God. God is as present anywhere on earth, as he is in the furthest parts of the universe. As an aside, we can also ask: how could it be possible for the existence of multiverses? Where would ‘they’ exist? The very supposition of multiverses demands the existence of space between the different cosmoses. What is that space made up of, and how is it different from that within each individual cosmos? Moreover, how does one separate space from space, if they aren’t separated by anything physical, meaning anything composed of what we call matter?
Finally, it isn’t so much that God is spiritual, as it is that he isn’t matter. God isn’t physical, because he created all that is physical/earth. The earth (all matter) is presently decaying and gradually dying, because matter doesn’t exist forever. All matter has a beginning and an end, and God isn’t matter. He isn’t physical. Therefore, he isn’t subject to the limitations of material things. He doesn’t grow old; he doesn’t die; he hasn’t a beginning, so he wasn’t created.
Perhaps, if you didn’t realize how illogical the question: “Who created God?” was before, you may now understand why such a question is both naïve and, therefore, ineffective in either changing a believer’s opinion or even to get him to consider such a question a threat to his faith. Even a naïve believer, understands that the God he embraces is eternal, and, if eternal, he is uncreated. He has always existed. Thus, even if such a believer finds it difficult to defend his faith in so many words, he doesn’t find the question: “Who created God?” a threat to his faith. He is and remains unmoved!
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