“Who made God?” Everyone knows that something does not come from nothing. So, if God is a “something,” then He must have a cause, right?
That is the skeptic's of a Creator God point of view! But God documents in his word, that he made everything that exists from nothing! Yet for someone to create all things existent from nothing, he'd have to possess all the attributes of God; and had no cause.
We know on the human plane that from nothing, nothing can come. So, if there were ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence, then nothing would have ever come into existence. But things do exist. This fact cannot be denied. Only created things could have a creator, so it's improper to lump God in with his creation.
If a creator God needs to have been made by a creator, that creator would also need a creator who needs a creator; like an infinite chain of toppling domino gods, which is an impossibility.
Therefore, since there could never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been in existence. That ever-existing thing is what we call God. God is the un-caused Being that caused everything else to come into existence. God is the un-created Creator who created the universe and everything in it.
In Hebrews, Paul explains that the Creator God, who is outside of the creation (omnipresent) spoke of the things in his mind, and in so doing brought into existence everything through the immense power of his word.
Hebrews 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
Psalms 33:6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
Ex nihilo is Latin for “from nothing.” The term creation ex nihilo refers to God creating everything from nothing. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1). Prior to that moment, there was nothing. God didn’t make the universe from preexisting building blocks, or raw materials. He started with nothing!
We human beings require materials from which to build something. God is not so constrained. This idea that God created everything from nothing is not natural to us. It’s not natural at all, it’s a supernatural concept.
The cause of the universe must have been non-material because if the cause was material / natural, it would be subject to the same laws of decay as the universe. That means it would have to have had a beginning itself and you have the same problem as cycles of births and deaths of universes. So the cause of the universe’s beginning must have been super-natural, i.e. non-material or spirit—a cause outside of space-matter-time. Such a cause would not be subject to the law of decay and so would not have a beginning. That is, the cause had to be eternal spirit.
Furthermore, the cause of the universe had to be an incredibly powerful force or being; the sheer size and energy seen in the universe together speak of that power; there had to be a sufficient cause. That sounds like the God of the Bible to me.
God is not and cannot be defined in the category of things that are created or caused. God is uncaused and un-created; He simply exists and has always been.
Everything that is created requires a Cause! The created universe requires a cause because it had a beginning. Human beings require a cause. But God, unlike the universe, or us, had no beginning, so He doesn't even need a cause.
Our finite minds, being confined to created things and places find it hard to comprehend that before the universe was created, God existed. So, before time even existed, which by the way; God created; God existed in three Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
Darrell G. Young
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