“Who Made God?”
January 2019 – Grace & Truth Magazine
QUESTION: Who made God?
ANSWER: The simplest answer to this question, asked by a youth who knows that God made us, is: NO ONE MADE GOD!
God is great. His greatness staggers our imagination. With our wildest thinking we cannot conceive how great He is. We sometimes say, “He always was, He always is, and He always will be” (see Rev. 1:8). But truly, as far as God is concerned, we must simply say, “He is.” He introduced Himself to Moses as, “I AM WHO I AM” (Ex. 3:14 NKJV). Time is meaningless to Him, for He created time. Books have been written about Him, but none of them nor any human mind can fully portray His greatness. Words cannot describe it.
God always has been. He is a Spirit and cannot be seen in His majesty and glory. Whether you go back a few thousand years in your thinking of creation or the billions of years many scientists claim the universe has existed, God was there! He is eternal. Men predict that our sun will grow old and come to an end several billion years from now. God will never grow old or come to an end. He is unchanging.
God is one, yet at the same time God is three distinct persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. At a given point in human history – the Bible speaks of it as “the fullness of the time” (Gal. 4:4) – God the Father sent God the Son into our world to become our Savior. God the Son, Jesus, was born into this world as a Baby – but a Baby with a virgin mother and no human father. He was miraculously conceived by God the Holy Spirit, and as He grew up all that He did was done in the power of the Holy Spirit. The Son pleased God the Father in every detail of His wonderful holy life. In fact, God, being Three yet One, is absolutely consistent in all His ways. Each divine person has His own will and ways, yet none is ever opposed to the other. All is in perfect harmony and fellowship.
The Bible reveals God’s love for us. The first contact of God with mankind whom He created tells us that God blessed them and provided food for them (Gen. 1:28-29). The best-known verse in the New Testament and, for that matter, in the entire Bible tells us, “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son” (Jn. 3:16). What a God is ours! He loves us whom He has placed on this little speck of His creation called “earth,” in which He takes a special interest and has made perfectly habitable for us. Because sin has spoiled things here, He is going to end earth’s present existence by burning up and dissolving all things with fervent heat and then make new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells (2 Pet. 3:10-13).
God offers to us the opportunity to enjoy all this with Him forever, if we come to Him in repentance of our sins and accept the forgiveness He offers. By His remedy, the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ shed on the cross at Calvary many years ago, our sins can be washed away, and we will enter into the fullness of joy in His presence, joy above our wildest imagination and that will last forever without end.
Who made God? No one! He, the Master Designer, has made all things and has done all things well. God made us, loves us and wants us to be with Him in blissful fellowship forever. Please take a moment to do these two things:
- Accept His kind offer now, if you haven’t already done so!
- Thank Him for His greatness and goodness and for the wonderful salvation He has given you, which you are enjoying now and will continue to do so forever and ever!
Answered by Eugene P. Vedder, Jr.
When speaking to Moses from the bush, God began and returned to the fact that He is God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob (Ex. 3:6,15). He took a name in relationship to men, which is to be His continual memorial. He has another name, which simply rendered is: “The Unsearchable.”
“I AM THAT I AM” (v.14 KJV) does not so much reveal as declare the veil that hangs before Him, when man would try to search out the Almighty to perfection (Job 11:7). He dwells in unapproachable light, “whom no man hath seen, nor can see” (1 Tim. 6:16). He is ever-present: the One who is – which gives reality and meaning to everything else. —F. W. Grant (adapted)