Some people argue that if all things need a cause, then God must also need a cause. So if God needed a cause, then God is not God (and if God is not God, then of course there is no God). Also if we are to remain in the realms of science then we know that life produces life. Everyone knows that something does not come from nothing. So, if God is a “something,” then, of course, He must have a cause.
The question is tricky because it assumes a false assumption that God came from somewhere and then asks where that might be. The answer is that if you knew God then you would not even ask who created Him. God is the unoriginated (1), Almighty (2) {can we understand the concept that there is nothing that God is not powerful enough to do}, Whose understanding, and therefore His knowledge, is without any limits (3), Who is everlasting, has created everything and never becomes tired (4), Who is just and there is none beside Him (5). God is the everlasting, Almighty, all creating self existent I am and so Who could create Him? As God is by character or definition the uncreated creator of the universe, so the question ‘Who created God?’ is illogical. It is like saying, “Where can you get unwet water?”
We know that nothing produces nothing. Consequently if ever there was a time when absolutely nothing existed, then nothing would have come into existence from it. However people and things do exist. Therefore there could never have been a time when absolutely nothing existed. So something had to have always been in existence to start the whole process of time, space and matter. That ever-existing being is who we call God. God is the uncaused Being that caused everything else to come into existence. God is the uncreated Creator who created the universe and everything in it as Romans c1v20 (6) teaches.
God is not like the universe, as He had had no beginning (7) and so doesn’t need a cause.
A more sophisticated questioner might ask: ‘If the universe needs a cause, then why doesn’t God need a cause? And if God doesn’t need a cause, why should the universe need a cause?’ As mentioned above the universe exists and we are the result of a process. We are marked by time and matter and therefore someone must have started the whole process. God is outside of and greater than matter, space and time. Therefore everything which has a beginning has a cause which includes the universe. God, as creator of time, is outside of time. Since therefore He has no beginning in time, He must have always existed and so did not need a cause. A further point is that as the creator of something is not subject to the constraints of their creation so God is not subject to the constraints of His creation.
Genesis c1v1 (8) informs us that God was a being capable of at least the creation of time, space and matter before the time when He created the universe. Other New Testament verses tell us that God was acting before time, space and matter began (9. 10). As we live in a universe of cause and effect, we automatically assume that this is how all existence functions. However, the supposition is false. Since God created time the elements of cause and effect would never apply to His existence.
God has no need to have been created, since He exists outside time, space and matter where cause and effect do not work. The only possible escape for the atheist to support the idea, that the universe itself is eternal and so does not need God, is the invention of a kind of super universe, which can never be confirmed experimentally. Therefore it is metaphysical and not scientific theory.
What if some say that the universe had a beginning but not a cause? But, as shown above, it is plain that things that have a beginning have a cause. All science and history would collapse if this law of cause and effect were denied. Also, the universe cannot be self-caused, as nothing can create itself, because that would mean that it existed before it came into existence, which is absurd.
Therefore God is by character or definition the uncreated Creator of the universe, and also wants to save you from the effects of your sin, that is your wrong thinking, attitudes, words and actions and be your Saviour too (11).
Bible References
- John c5v26 “For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.”
- Genesis c35v11 “And God said unto him, I am God Almighty.”
- Psalm 147v5 “Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.”
- Isaiah c40v28 “Have you not known? Have you not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.”
- Isaiah c45v21 “Tell and bring them near; yes, let them take counsel together: who has declared this from ancient time? who has told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.”
- Romans c1v20 “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.”
- Psalm 90v2 “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.”
- Genesis c1v1 “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
- 1Corinthians c2v7 “But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory.”
- Titus c1v2 “In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began.”
- Romans c1v16 “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
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