Who Made God?

So the first question tonight, let’s go ahead and get into it here, is this. Who made God? All right, now that’s a tough one. Who made God? So, you know, I got to thinking about this, and this is a very natural question for a young person.

Because, you know, when you’re born, you don’t know very much, but then you start growing, and you start thinking about things, and one of the first things you realize is if you step on a bug, that bug is dead, right? And it’s not coming back, okay?

That’s about one of the first things you do as a little child, you know, step on bugs. And so you learn about death pretty quick. And then you start wondering, well, where did I come from, right? How did I get here? And, of course, your parents are going to tell you, well, mom and daddy brought you into the world, right?

And so, you came from someone, you know you had a beginning, and you know you’re going to have an end. And that means that we, as human beings, are completely dependent on our existence to someone else other than ourselves, right?

And we’re dependent on our existence for other things also, like oxygen and water and food. And if we don’t get those things, then problems ensue. And so, I don’t owe the explanation for myself to myself, okay? The explanation for myself is outside of me. And the same is true for every one of you, and especially, you know, our young people. What that means is that someone else brought you into this world, right?

And so I think that from that, you start thinking about that, and you think, you know what? And so you start wondering, where did I come from? Where did God come from? I was made. Somebody made me. Who made God? That’s a great question. It’s a great logical question that people think about.

However, when it comes to God, He is very different from us. He exists differently from us. We are physical beings, and we have a spirit, so we’re kind of a two-part being, both physical and spiritual, right now, at least.

And so, but God, the Bible says in John chapter 4 and verse 24, that God is a spirit, okay? So He’s different from us. And He’s not only a spirit, He’s also the Father of spirits. Hebrews chapter 12 and verse 9 teaches.

And so, what that means is that our spirits are created by Him. We get our physical bodies from Mama and Daddy, and we get our spiritual self from God the Father, who is the Father of Spirits, the Bible says.

And so, our existence, both physical and spiritual, depends on another, either our parents or on God. Now, we use this argument, or we use this line of reasoning, I should say, in the reasons that we give for the existence of God.

You say, how do we do that? We say, every effect must have an adequate cause. And that’s, you see, that’s what young people are wrestling with. They’re wrestling with cause and effect, right? And so they see themselves, they look at them, I’m an effect, I’m here, I had to have an adequate cause.

You know, we talk about this sometimes, and we say things like, you know, a tornado cannot go through a brickyard and make a two-story house, right? That’s not going to happen. Why? Because that is not an adequate cause for there to be a two-story house.

Well, the world is beautiful, and it’s greatly designed, and when you look at the human being and the structure of the things in it, we recognize that nature just is not an adequate cause for the existence of people. And so we think, well, how can we explain the existence of everything that is? And the only way is that God created it.

But you see, that puts God in a very different category than us. He’s the Creator, and we are the created. Right? So I’ve been created, but God is the Creator. So He’s very different than I am. Well, God was not born like human beings are born and He did not have a beginning like human beings have a beginning. The Bible teaches that God has always existed, that He did not have a beginning and that He’s not going to have an end.

And that is a very hard concept for little people to understand. It’s a hard concept for college students to understand. You know, the concept of infinity is something that is discussed in mathematics and other things. And that means there’s no beginning, there’s no end, there’s no end. It’s limitless. And God is like that. He doesn’t have a beginning. He doesn’t have an end. He has always existed.

Now, look at Psalm 90 and verses 1 and 2. Psalm 90 verses 1 and 2. It says, It says, “‘Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.'”

So, think about the oldest things that we can see around us, right? You might go outside and look at a tree and say, that tree has been here since, you know, there used to be a, Justin told me the story one time about a pine tree down there at James Bowie School.

He said, well, the story goes that old pine tree has been here since James Bowie planted that pine tree. You look at things like pine trees and you think, well, that’s an old tree that’s been here a long time, but it hadn’t been here forever, right?

When you think about something even older than an old pine tree and you think, well, the mountains. What about the mountains? There you go, the mountains have been here for a long, long time, right? Yes, but they haven’t been here forever. But what about the world, the whole globe? It’s been here for a long time, right? But it hasn’t been here forever. It came from somewhere. God made it.

And so, but what about God? He has been here forever. He’s been here from everlasting and He will be to everlasting. And so God is different than we are in that regard. Look at Psalm 93 and verse 2. Psalm 93 and verse 2. Here’s another one that declares God’s eternity. It says, Your throne is established from of old. You are from everlasting. Everlasting. What does that mean? Everlasting.

It means as far back as can be. And in fact, when we start to look into it further, there’s even a more interesting verse in Isaiah 57 and verse 15. Now this one is getting closer and closer to understanding God and His existence.

It says, “…For thus says the High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity.” He inhabits eternity. Now, that tells us something about God that is very different from us. We do not inhabit eternity. We inhabit temporality, right? The temporal sphere where time exists, and time flows from one second, one moment to the next in this temporal area, but God lives in eternity, and that’s very different. Time doesn’t flow from one moment to the next there, and I don’t understand all that, but that’s what the Bible says.

That God inhabits eternity. Well, that just simply means that He’s not like us. And so the answer is, who made God? The answer is, no one made God. God has always existed. He is from everlasting to everlasting. He inhabits eternity.

And so, He’s in a different category than we are. And while it’s a good question to ask, you know, who made God, because that seems to be a natural question, because you think about that, you think about yourself, who made me, mom and dad made me, you think about, you know, the earth, you see animals, and who made those animals, and then you think about the mountains and the world itself.

All of those things were made. Even the universe was made. But no one made God. He had, and I’m going to put this in kind of a little interesting expression, but it’s like this. God has the explanation for Himself inside Himself, right?

The explanation for us is outside of us, but the explanation for God is inside of God. You know, that’s a very different idea than what the pagan world said about the gods in the ancient world, right? Think about the mythology surrounding Zeus, who was considered to be the greatest of all the gods in the pagan pantheon. And even he had parents, Kronos and Rhea, in the mythology of pagan deities.

And so, you see, the Bible tells us about a God who’s very different. And that’s one of the unique aspects of the Bible that tells us that this is a document that speaks the truth. It’s unique. It’s different. It’s not like all those old pagan stories that are discussed in academia now and not very much in school anymore.

But, the God of the Bible is real. And He exists very differently from us. He has the explanation for Himself inside of Himself. And no one made God. Alright. Well, that’s our first question. Very good question.

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