Thoughts about God — Pt 1 — Who Made God?
May 24th, 2008 Posted in Theology
“Who made God?” This profound theological question often is heard coming from the lips of a small child. Just when they begin to grasp the truth of what God must be like they hit up against the incomprehensible concept that He’s eternal. They have already learned that everything comes from something and from somewhere and at some point in time. OK, so God made everything. The logical question is to ask who made God.
The answer, which admittedly is often not very satisfying to the child, is that nobody made God but that He’s always existed. We who are older can empathize with the child-theologian. It’s impossible to really wrap our thinking around the idea that God has always existed.
The atheist doesn’t fare much better. If you don’t believe God made it all then you have to believe that something, whether energy or matter, or both, has always existed. It couldn’t have just “poofed” out of nothing. In reality, the person who doesn’t believe in God has the greater problem. Believing that matter and/or energy has always existed only puts off into the infinite past the question, “But where did matter and energy come from originally?”
The belief that God is spirit, that He is neither energy nor matter, is the most logical view to hold. Only a being who exists apart from matter and energy could exist before it and could make it.
There’s another fact, nearly as amazing as the fact that God has eternally existed in the past and will eternal exist in the future, and that is that we humans are designed to live eternally. God’s eternal in both the past and the future. We get half the deal. We get to have an eternal future.
That’s possible because God wants to have a relationship with us that He never wants to end. Of course, any meaningful relationship has to be voluntary so it’s up to us whether we want to spend eternity with God (which is heavenly) or without Him (which is hellish). If He has His way with us, we will be spending eternity with Him. It’s when we spend this life centering it in a relationship with God that we can be assured He also has us at the center of His eternal plans!
Your throne was established long ago; you are from all eternity.” (Psalm 93:2)
Dave
