Questions about God: 1. Who made God?
1. Who made God?
Nobody expects a dog to log on to the Internet and check out a national news website. This is not because the Internet cannot be understood, but because it is beyond a dog’s understanding. Similarly, God is bigger than anything a human can fully comprehend. It is impossible to put God into a science lab and carry out experiments on Him. God made men and women in His own image. The result is that we have the ability to love, think, reason, hate and to enjoy friendship. We were created by Him and must not fall into the trap of making God in our own image. We are finite, God is infinite; we are limited, but God is not limited by space or by time; we were born and one day our bodies will die, but God has no beginning or end. He was not made by anyone or anything. Our minds cannot grasp that, just as they cannot understand the fact that there are innumerable stars in space, or billions of cells in our bodies. All that we know starts and finishes, but God had no beginning and will have no end. The Bible says of God that He is, ‘the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honour and might forever.’ (1 Timothy 6:15b – 16)If we could fully understand and explain Him, He would not be God or we would not be human.
The temptation is to reduce Almighty God to terms we can understand. This is the essence of idolatry. It is making God into our image, so that we have some control over Him. To give God a beginning is to create a being, who is like us. But God the Creator is greater than anything that He has created.
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