Who created God?

[LibralAteoJesus]

 

[Havard]

No one.

I think it’s probably better first to analyze your assumption that everything needs a cause.

But no, God’s existence is not contingent.

 

[Sultan_Of_Swing]

God is eternal. He requires no creator or prior cause.

If something has no beginning, why would it require a creator?

I hope that helps.

 

[Havard]

From Exodus, Ch 3:

“[13] Moses said to God: Lo, I shall go to the children of Israel, and say to them: The God of your fathers hath sent me to you. If they should say to me: What is his name? what shall I say to them?
[14] God said to Moses: I AM WHO AM. He said: Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: HE WHO IS, hath sent me to you.”

Footnote: [14] I am who am: That is, I am being itself, eternal, self-existent, independent, infinite; without beginning, end, or change; and the source of all other beings.

 

[ClearWater]

No one.

Now, we see that we have something created by something, created by something, created by something, created by something…until we go back to what we would call the beginning.

We, Catholics, do NOT believe this something created by something, created by something could have gone back, indefinitely, infinitely. Eventually, we believe there was something, in the beginning, that was the originator, which was NOT created. We call that UNCREATED Creator, “God”.

What do you call it or do you think this pattern goes backwards into infinity?

 

[tonyrey]

What created the universe?

Your question implies that physical causes are eternal or spontaneous events, a hypothesis which contradicts scientific evidence to the contrary.

Have you ever heard of contingency?

 

[George_Stegmeir]

The G*d of Abraham, who is the Deity of the Jews, Christians, and Moslems, is omnipotent and omniscient.
I suggest that you look up these terms in the dictionary. That will answer your question.

 

[tonyrey]

The G*d of Abraham, who is the Deity of the Jews, Christians, and Moslems, is omnipotent and omniscient.
I suggest that you look up these terms in the dictionary. That will answer your question.

Not if one is a sceptic and nihilist!

 

[ccmnxc]

Have you stopped beating your wife yet?

 

[billcu1]

What created the universe?

Your question implies that physical causes are eternal or spontaneous events, a hypothesis which contradicts scientific evidence to the contrary.

Have you ever heard of contingency?

What created the universe? A thing maybe an event from a previous event going back to a first cause.

 

[afungusamongus]

Generally he is held to be eternal making the need for a cause. This is hard to explain to non believers who think that to posit a cause for a universe is to claim that everything has a cause. I’m looking right at you Richard Dawkins…

 

[JamesTheJust]

This is where our good friend St Thomas Aquinas comes in.

The Argument from Motion (or First Way):

Our senses prove that some things are in motion.

Things move when potential motion becomes actual motion.

Only an actual motion can convert a potential motion into an actual motion.

Nothing can be at once in both actuality and potentiality in the same respect (i.e., if both actual and potential, it is actual in one respect and potential in another).

Therefore nothing can move itself.

Therefore each thing in motion is moved by something else.

The sequence of motion cannot extend ad infinitum.

Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a first mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.

Basically, the universe was created. Something created it. Since we cannot have an infinite regress of causes, we must conclude that there is a being which was not created but does create, i.e God.