Who Created God?

One of the other challenges made to the existence of God is the question, “If God created the Universe, then who created God?”

This makes the assumption that everything has had a beginning. According to this belief, if God created the Universe then God must have had a beginning also. This then raises the question

“Who created whoever created God?”

and then the question

“Who created whoever created whoever created God?”

and so on. As you can see you never arrive at the beginning. This is called an infinite regress, where you an infinite number of steps backward in time, regressing back in time, and still never arrive at the beginning.

Think back to the Universe having a beginning - the effect of time, space, and matter. We saw that the only logical explanation for the Universe coming into existence and consistent with the Law of Cause and Effect, is that it was caused by a being outside of time, space, and matter, and a being as great as or greater than time, space, and matter.

Look again at the definition of The Law of Cause and Effect. This law states that for anything that has come into existence there must be a cause. Notice that it indicates “For anything that has come into existence, there must be a cause.” It does not indicate, “For anything that exists there must be a cause”.

Everything that exists is not an effect. If everything was an effect the Law of Cause and Effect would also apply to the scenario,

“Who (the cause) created God (the effect)?”

This means that according to the Law of Cause and Effect the who would have to be as great as or greater than God. Then in the

“Who created whoever created God”

the Who would have to be as great as or greater than the whoever, and the whoever would be as great as or greater than God. Isn't this starting to sound illogical? Can you see how this scenario still needs an eternal first cause which/who has always existed?

Since it has been proven that the cause of the Universe, (time, space, and matter), existed outside of time, space, and matter, and before time, space, and matter existed. An infinite, all powerful, and eternal God who exists outside of time, space, and matter is the only logical explanation for the existence of the Universe, and is fully consistent with the law of cause and effect.

Something else to consider. If the God of the Bible were created by another “greater” God and the God of the Bible is still powerful enough to create the Universe out of nothing, we would still need to satisfy the requirements of this first God, wouldn't we? It seems that those who would ask the question, “If God created the Universe then who created God?” use this as their justification for God not existing, or possibly that there must be a greater God out there, so I don’t have to worry about this “lesser” (according to them) God.

As we’ve seen, an infinite regress of Gods going back through time past isn’t a logical possibility and violates the Law of Cause and Effect. You would never arrive at a first cause.