Thank you for your question Tom. It is a question that is asked by believers and skeptics alike.
Who made God?
As we consider this question, we have to recognize that we are not able to fully understand God. This fact does not preclude our asking and answering the question; it simply keeps the answers we find in perspective. They may not be total answers. However, with a little logic and a little faith mixed in, we can find an answer.
First, let’s look at some of the logic of the question. If we assume that God had a beginning and that He created everything, then who created God? If you answer who created God, then the next logical question is who created that God and who created the next God, up the ladder? See where this is going? It is moving us into a never ending loop that leads nowhere.
Next, consider that something can come from nothing. A recent theory is that “nothing” actually has something in it. This theory states the something inside nothing creates something (Stephen Hawking). Now the question becomes who created the nothing that creates something? So what created us and everything around us? Whatever this nothing is must have had a beginning. Science once again runs into a brick wall because, you need a beginning of the mathematically supposed nothing to have something come from it. It seems science always comes up to a wall that they cannot get through, when trying to explain who or what was the creator? Clearly something had to create everything, and we believe the creator is God and He is eternal so He needs no creator.
Consider where God is or is not. To be the creator of what we see, God has to be outside of our reality. The potter cannot be part of the pot. So if God created everything, He created time and space as well as the physical world.
Let’s look at what the Bible says about who God is.
Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Shows God was before anything else was.)
2 Timothy 1:9 says, “This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.” This passage shows God was before time was.
Deuteronomy 33:27 says, “the eternal God is your refuge….”. God is eternal. (Webster’s definition of eternal: Having neither beginning nor end; infinite in duration)
In the Bible passages above God claims he is eternal. He has no beginning and no end.
In the story of Moses and the burning bush, we find God making a declaration of who He is which gives us the answer to the question of who created God. In Exodus 3:13-14 Moses is asking God what name He should use for God when he is asked who sent him and God’s reply is “I am who I am”. Thus you will say “I am” sent me to you”. God says He is “I Am”, no more no less. He just is. No restrictions in time or place. No thought of limiting Himself in any way. He just is. “I am”, two small words that give God an eternal expanse. A simple answer that says volumes and puts God beyond our time and space. He is saying he is eternal in these two words.
The answer to your question is that no one made God. He is, was, and always will be.
