WWJD By Dr. Richard Youngblood
Question: Since everything has to come from something
that existed before it and Christians claim that God created all things, where
did God come from?
This is a fair question, but one that cannot be
easily answered so we can understand it.
How can we limited, finite beings comprehend anything that is unlimited
and infinite? By his very nature, our
eternal God exists in a totally different category from all created things that
must have a maker in order to exist.
I have never heard of anyone who denies that
everything in our material universe was made from or by something that existed
before it. As the Bible says, “Every
house is built by someone” (Hebrews 3:4). Houses don’t build themselves; they must have
a builder. Neither do children give
birth to themselves; they must have parents.
The same is true of everything of a material nature in our world. Since the first law of thermodynamics
demonstrates that matter itself is not eternal, everything in our material universe
had to come from something outside itself.
This means that for our material universe to exist
there must be something or someone outside of it that is of a different nature
or category. The ancient philosopher,
Aristotle, called this “the uncaused first cause.” Thus, the Bible did not stop with saying, “For
every house is built by someone,” but added, “God is the builder of everything”
(Hebrews 3:4). God is Spirit and not matter (John
4:24). He exists outside our material
universe and is not dependent upon anything or anyone else. God is eternal (1 Timothy 1:17). He has no beginning or end. He is the “the Alpha and the Omega,
the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End” (Revelation 22:13), the one “who is, and who was, and who is to
come, the Almighty” (Revelation 1:8).
In
conclusion, all of the above means that because the things we know in our world
had to have some pre-existent cause or maker, we must not assume that God must
have a maker. God is unlike and beyond
anything in our world that we can touch, see, taste, smell or hear. We must not assume that he cannot exist because
he had no maker. Instead, we can know
that his existence is necessary for a world dependent upon a pre-existent
series of causes and effects. Therefore,
I would challenge you to get to know him and allow him to bless and guide
you. He sent Jesus Christ his son into
this world to call each one of us to trust in him and to accept the gift of
eternal life with him. I’m praying that
you will carefully consider these things.
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