Drew,

I guess Man doesn’t know enough to be able to explain his origins definitively, yet? But there is one question I have to ask as it really blows my mind. If God created the world, who created God? Any thoughts?

Jack

Jack,

Let me admit that it blows my finite mind, too, that God is immortal and uncreated and infinite. I have a favorite “document” (I guess you could call it) of the Christian church. It’s the Westminster Catechism. I like it because, in a simple, accessible question-and-answer format, it seeks to present fundamental truths. Consider the fifth question of the shorter version of the Westminster Catechism:

Q: What is God?
A: God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.

I told you it was simple and accessible, didn’t I? The hardest problem is understanding what all the words mean. To answer your question about who created God, note in particular the word “eternal”. Eternal can be defined as having no beginning or end, and this characteristic of God is essential to understanding him and answering your question.

The short answer is no one created God because he is eternal (without beginning or end) and uncreated. He is and was and will be. In fact, the very personal name of God, Yahweh, comes from the Hebrew verb “to be”. Thus, sometimes you may hear God referred to as “I AM.” This name shows his timeless, eternal nature. So, perhaps in closing we can craft our own catechism:

Q: Who created God?
A: God is uncreated and therefore eternal. He is.

While it may be easy to reduce the topic of the existence and nature of God to “He is”, it’s important to understand that we cannot wholly comprehend all that God is because he is limitless and we are puny brains are indeed limited–I’m a good example of this. =)

Fortunately for us, he has showed us little snippets of himself in the Bible and Jesus.

-drew