Who made God? How would you answer a child? an adult?

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I heard a child ask her mother this recently. It is a question all children seem to ask once they start to reach an age of reasoning and questioning.
How would you recommend answering it to a child?
How would the answer differ if you were asked the same question by a non-believing adult such as an athiest?

Hi Questlove,

to the atheist I would discuss the logic of believing that ‘something’ can be created from ‘nothing’ and try to find the common ground that there must be ‘something’ that is uncreated.

Be that atoms, energy, time, space, laws in our universe of something unspecified beyond our universe.

Hopefully the atheist would see the logic of that argument.

Then I would say that in Christian theology that ‘something’ which is uncreated is God.

For the child I would keep it very simple until their minds develop more fully and then discuss the subject with them in more depth. I think there is a danger in leaving the explanations too simple for too long. It appears to me that too many atheists become that way because they reach the age of reason and reject the simple children’s view of God without encountering the well thought out grown-up views.

God bless.