Who created God?

Who created God?

When we say that God created everything, atheists ask who created God. 

Richard Dawkins, the leading figure in contemporary atheism, raises this question vigorously in his book The God Delusion: if God is the creator of everything, then who created God?

Let's explore the rationality of this question posed by atheists.

Category Mistake Fallacy 

This question is a category mistake. This means that every entity has specific attributes that define it. For example, a book is defined by its printed paper, pages, and content. If someone asks, "What does the book taste like?" it is a meaningless question because taste has no relation to a book. Taste is an attribute of food, not books.

Similarly, when we talk about God, His attributes include being eternal, having no beginning, and always existing. When we ask, "Who created God?" we are trying to apply the attributes of creation to the Creator, which is incorrect. God is not a creation; He is the Creator, and one of His attributes is that He has no creator.

Therefore, the question "Who created God?" is a fundamental misunderstanding of God's attributes, known as a category mistake.

Infinite Regression

This question is flawed because it leads to an endless chain of questions. For instance, if we ask who created the universe, the answer would be God. Then, if we ask who created God, and then who created the creator of God, and so on, it would result in an infinite regress.

If this infinite regress were true, neither we nor the universe should exist. Since we do exist, reason and logic dictate that this chain must end somewhere, with an entity that is uncreated. That entity is God, who is the Creator and has no creator.

Responsibility of Atheists 

It is not only our responsibility to answer this question but also that of atheists. If an atheist insists on this question, ask them, "What do you think was the first thing in this world?" Whatever they answer, ask, "Who created that first thing?" They will also end up in an endless chain of questions without a satisfactory answer.

Ultimately, they will have to acknowledge that there must be an entity or existence that is uncreated, and they will fall silent.

Intellectual Contradiction

This question is based on an intellectual contradiction. Atheists accept that the universe has no creator but demand a creator for God. If the universe can exist without a creator, why can't God? It is more reasonable to accept a conscious Creator than an unconscious universe as God, especially since the universe is a creation. Every creation must have a creator, but God is not a creation, so He has no creator.

Theory of Relativity

According to Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity, time, matter, and space are interconnected. This means that when matter and space came into existence, time also came into existence. According to the Big Bang theory, all these originated from a massive explosion.

Since God is the Creator of the entire universe, He created time along with matter and space. Therefore, God's existence cannot be understood within the constraints of our limited thinking and time dimension. Since time itself is a creation of God, questions of time do not apply to God.

This means that since God has no beginning, He can have no creator. He has always existed and always will. God's existence transcends our concepts and imagination. Thus, the question "Who created God?" is meaningless because God is beyond the constraints of time and has no beginning.

Metaphysical World

God has no physical existence. God belongs to the metaphysical world, not the physical world. Therefore, the standards and parameters of the two are different. Worldly logic does not apply to God. God was not born; He has always existed, even when there was no matter, energy, space, time, or physical laws. So, God has always existed, and asking questions of beginning and when about Him is illogical.

Infinite Regress is Impossible 

If, for any task, a person keeps asking the person above them for permission, and this chain never ends, no task can ever be completed. For example:

* In the army, if every soldier keeps asking their superior before firing, no shot would ever be fired.

* In cooking, if every cook keeps asking their superior, no food would ever be prepared.

* In governance, if every officer keeps asking their superior, no government would ever function.

Therefore, every country has a supreme leader who makes final decisions. This proves that infinite regress is impossible.

First Cause (Causa Prima)

Since a vast task like the creation of the universe has been accomplished, it proves that there must be an entity that is an "uncaused first cause," one that has no creator. God is defined as the one who has not been created. If someone asks, "Who created God?" God, by definition, is uncreated. If God were created, He wouldn't be God; He would be a creation.

The Nature of God

This is like asking, "What is the smell of the color blue?" The color blue does not belong to the category of things that have a smell. Similarly, God's nature does not belong to the category of things that are created or have a cause for existence. God has no cause for His existence, and He has not been created like a creature. God is necessary existence, always existing and will always exist.

Nothing Comes from Nothing

Nothing can be created from nothing. Therefore, if we accept that there was a time when "there was nothing," nothing could have been created from that nothing. But we know that many things exist in the universe. This means that before the existence of the universe, it was not the case that "there was nothing" in the entire universe, but some entity or power must have existed. We call this ever-existing entity or power God. God is the entity that has no cause for its existence, while everything in the universe exists because of Him. God is the necessary existence, who has not been created by anyone but is the Creator of everything in the universe.

By Sarjeel Sir