WHO MADE GOD?
KEY POINTS
- God is eternal, He never began and He was never made.
The question, “Who made God?” is a tautology and is, therefore, nonsensical or meaningless (in the sense that it does not need to be asked, and is therefore, not really a question at all) because of the nature of God. An interrogative tautology is a question that answers itself since it says the same thing twice in different words. For example, “Who made the lasagna that my wife made?” The “Who made God?” question is not as obvious of a tautology as the lasagna question (btw…my wife makes the best lasagna which is another reason why nobody could have made her lasagna but her).
God, by definition, is eternal. He never began. He was never made. The tautology question, “Who made God,” is equivalent to the question, “Who made the One who was not made?” The most fundamental answer to the question is rooted in the very nature of God. Nobody made God because God was not made. The “Who made God” question is exposed as being nonsensical or meaningless (in the sense that it does not need to be asked, and is therefore, not really a question at all) because of the nature of man. Man was created in God’s image (Genesis 1:26). He was made by God with eternity in his heart, “without the possibility that mankind will find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end” (Ecclesiastes 3:11).
Mankind acquired a fallen nature after the fall of Adam and Eve in the garden. Mankind also has an “image of God” nature due to the way in which God created him. Thus, mankind is aware of eternality. More specifically, man was created with eternity in his heart. He is aware of eternity though he cannot fully experience or comprehend it. Man asks the question, “When did God begin?” Yet, even as he asks it, he knows the answer. He knows the answer because he is aware of eternity. His answer may begin, “____#1 made God.” It then continues, “____#2 made ____#1.” Then he is, by nature, drawn to continue and state, “____#3 made ____#2.” And so on, and so on, and so on. Man is aware of eternity (the never-ending ongoing “blanks”), and so, He is aware of God. That never-ending ongoing nature of eternality must arrive at the place of the Creator – Him who was never made. And so, man knows that ____#1 did not make God because man is aware of eternity and knows that God was not made because eternity has no point in which anything started.
God, by definition, is eternal. He never began. He was never made. The tautology question, “Who made God,” is equivalent to the question, “Who made the One who was not made?” The most fundamental answer to the question is rooted in the very nature of God. Nobody made God because God was not made. The “Who made God” question is exposed as being nonsensical or meaningless (in the sense that it does not need to be asked, and is therefore, not really a question at all) because of the nature of man. Man was created in God’s image (Genesis 1:26). He was made by God with eternity in his heart, “without the possibility that mankind will find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end” (Ecclesiastes 3:11).
Mankind acquired a fallen nature after the fall of Adam and Eve in the garden. Mankind also has an “image of God” nature due to the way in which God created him. Thus, mankind is aware of eternality. More specifically, man was created with eternity in his heart. He is aware of eternity though he cannot fully experience or comprehend it. Man asks the question, “When did God begin?” Yet, even as he asks it, he knows the answer. He knows the answer because he is aware of eternity. His answer may begin, “____#1 made God.” It then continues, “____#2 made ____#1.” Then he is, by nature, drawn to continue and state, “____#3 made ____#2.” And so on, and so on, and so on. Man is aware of eternity (the never-ending ongoing “blanks”), and so, He is aware of God. That never-ending ongoing nature of eternality must arrive at the place of the Creator – Him who was never made. And so, man knows that ____#1 did not make God because man is aware of eternity and knows that God was not made because eternity has no point in which anything started.
BIBLICAL REFERENCES
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” Genesis 1:26
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet[a] no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. Ecclesiastes 3:11
TRUE NORTH
COLLEGE COURSES
Apologetics and Worldview | Practical Theology 254
A practical study regarding the skill of defending the gospel. Special attention will be given to using apologetics as a bridge to evangelism. Special emphasis will be on the study of worldviews and how Christians are called to think and live according to a biblical worldview.