By: Kyle Austin

With all the scientific discoveries over the last century, it is scientifically understood that the universe had a beginning. One view says it was the Big Bang, that nothing created everything, while the other view says it was God that created the universe. That God was the cause that created everything. If we say that God created the universe, the next natural question is, "Who created God?"

Let me give you a few thoughts to consider:

1. The beginning of the universe requires something uncaused. You have to stop at something uncaused or it would be like this: something caused this, caused this, caused this, caused this, and it would keep going forever. Why? The law of causality tells us that every effect must have a cause. So at the very beginning must be something uncaused that caused all that we see and know.
2. This something uncaused must be supernatural. It must exist outside of the universe in order to create the universe. It must be eternal in order to be the first cause.  

From the scientific evidence we learn this about the supernatural first cause: 

1. The First cause is self existent, timeless, and immaterial. The first cause must be outside of time, space, and matter in order to create time space, and matter. In other words the first cause is infinite, without any limits.
2. The first cause is unimaginably powerful. Think about the power required to to create the vastness of the universe out of nothing.
3. The first cause is supremely intelligent. The universe is designed with such incredible precision and complexity.

You be the judge of who or what is the first cause of the universe. Who or what fits this description beyond a reasonable doubt. Is it...

• That "nothing" is self-existent, timeless, unimaginably powerful, and supremely intelligent? That nothing is able to create such a finely tuned universe with all its complexities of life?

OR

• That God as described in the Bible is self-existent, timeless, unimaginably powerful, and supremely intelligent? That God is able to created such a finely tuned universe with all its complexities of life?

God is the first cause! Therefore God did not begin to exist so He has no cause or maker. No one created God. We see it described in the book of Genesis 1:1 this way, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." God already existed before He created the universe. God proceeds all of creation. Also God could not be God if He was caused. God would cease to be God if He was created because He would then be a created being like you and me. 

So who created God? No one. He is the eternal self-existent, unimaginably powerful, and supremely intelligent first cause of the entire universe and all of life.