Where did God come from?
Where did God come from?
I was first asked this question from a wide-eyed 5 year old in my scripture class. And I must say, I thought it was a silly question at the time. Not that I told the kindergarten kid that.
But that question hasn’t stopped being asked over the years.
Having this same question from many different people got me thinking. What is it about people that we ask this question- Where did God come from?
But I realise now it’s a valid and very good question. So here is my attempt at answering it:
Everything we see, I mean everything- has a beginning. You’re sitting on a chair, someone made that. You are looking at a screen, quite a few people invented that. The list goes on; we look at things and it makes sense that it’s there, because someone made it. There is no mental stress involved here.
But then people tell us that there is a God. And we want to know, where did God come from? Who made God? We treat the existence of God with the same mental aptitude as everything else and we cannot fathom the answer. The answer being that God was ALWAYS there! Always, meaning forever. Now there is mental stress involved and we find it very hard to resolve this.
No one created God. And we can’t get our head around it.
If someone else created God, then they would be God.
The very definition of God is that:
He. Was. Always. There.
So that’s my answer, God is/was always there. And the reason that we cannot understand this answer, is that everything else has a beginning, which creates a cognitive dissonance (mental stress) that we cannot resolve.
The scripture verse I’d like to leave you with is the first verse of the bible. Genesis Chapter 1,
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
God, who was always here, started to create, and the first thing He did was to build a world for you and me to live in. What an awesome God we have.
To finish, here’s a fitting quote by C.S. Lewis, “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
