WHO MADE GOD?
This question, along with “why does God allow all the suffering and wars if God is so good and powerful”, seem to be the most frequent questions by agnostics and those who seek to criticise Christian belief.
Recently, a friend of mine had an 8 yr old boy in scripture class ask the first question,"Who made God?” My friend was amazed at the boy’s curiousity and brainpower. He concluded that children are getting very smart these days, but sadly could not answer the childs’s question.
So, what do you out there think of this answer:- The whole basis of faith, in fact for all Abramaic religions, is that God is all-powerful, omnipotent and the one and only creator. God has made this crystal clear through all the prophets so that for one thing we do not have to ask” Who made God?”
Many people want naturally to understand God, to get closer to God and even give God a gender, but God is beyond understanding, beyond our comprehension. Why not leave it at that?

Mark 12:29-30 “Our Lord is the only Lord. Love the LOrd your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.”

This post reminded me of two letters that appeared on the pages of the Australian last month.

“Tim Saclier (Letters, 23/5) has summed up beautifully the old cliché that religion is a triumph of superstition and blind faith over reason and logic. My own epiphany came at the age of 12, when my Sunday school teacher, in reply to my asking who created God, informed me with a straight face that God had always existed. I refused to attend further religious instruction on the grounds that I was being taught by idiots. My Sundays were then spent happily playing in the local swamp, where I observed many of the creatures from which I had actually evolved.”
- Peter West, The Vines, WA

A reply appeared in the paper the following day.

“Peter West (Letters, 24/5) reminded me of my old science teacher, to whom, at the age of 12, I posed the question, “Who caused the big bang?” He answered me, with a straight face, that nothing caused it, to which I promptly replied that something must have because it obviously happened. It was at that point that I had an epiphany: my science teacher could not give me an answer that was either reasonable or logical. My Sundays were then happily spent attending Sunday school and learning about the God who created me.”
- Bruce Newberry, Mansfield, Qld.”

nice. very nice.

One big problem with pilosophy, it is not an attempt to answer questions, but to have the right question to destroy any preposition.

All arguments stake prepositions, which can be questioned, the real question is wether to stake your claim on the preposition or to disbelieve it, both are important decisions, if it is an important preposition.

Who made God?
As an 18 yr old, this question was asked, in my very first scripture class ever (too many years ago). Before I could answer, a 5th class boy said “what a stupid question, if someone made God, then that person would be God!”

Good enough for me (and the class).

When teaching high school scripture, it’s always a good story to tell when the yr 8 class clown asks this question.

Darren

I get asked this question in scripture classes all the time.

It’s an understandable question. Everything we see around us has a ‘cause’. The kids have parents, who have parents, who have… So, they apply the same reasoning to God.

When I point out why they are asking the question, I can say to the kids, ‘The one that started everything, He is God.’ When they quickly reply (again), ‘But who made God?’, then I say, well, if someone made God, then whoever made God, is God. The one at the start, that one is God.

Or, as the bible puts it, ‘everlasting to everlasting’.

So far, that answer has gone ok!!