WHO MADE GOD?

Picture a father talking with his seven-year-old son. He says,  "Long, long ago, God made the earth and everything in it, and he made the sun, the moon, and the stars."  The  boy thinks about this for a few moments and then asks, "Daddy, who made God?"

"Nobody made God," the father replies.  "He has always existed."  That simple statement satisfies the child for now. As he grows older, however, the question continues to intrigue him.  He finds it hard to comprehend how anyone could be without a beginning.  Why, even the universe had a beginning. 'Where did God come from?" He wonders.  

How does the Bible answer? Essentially, in much the same way as did the father in our example. Moses wrote:  "O Jehovah, . . .before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the productive land, from everlasting to everlasting, you are God." (Psalm 90:1, 2) Likewise, the prophet Isaiah exclaimed: "Do you not know?  have you not heard? Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, is a God for all eternity"!  (Isaiah 40:28) Similarly, the letter of Jude refers to God as existing  "for all past  eternity." -Jude 25. 

Those scriptures show us that God is "the King of eternity," as the apostle Paul describes him.  (1 Timothy 1:17)  This means that God has always existed, no matter how far back in time we cast our gaze. And he will always exist in the future.  (Revelation 1:8) Thus, his eternal existences is a fundamental attribute of the Almighty.

Next time: Conclusion of: WHO MADE GOD?

From the Watchtower magazine, 2014