Tuesday, December 6, 2011

"Who made God?"

Who made God? A question children WILL ask.


I love writing down my thoughts and things that I enjoy reading and also sharing. Now, in preparing this work, I came across a lot of objection to the existence of God. Many believe that God's existence is not logical at all. But here I will attempt to show that God's existence is not only logical but required for our existence. I will not use the Bible but use reason and science to show that God's existence within reason and logic.

Let's take a look at the argument or question "Who made God?" First the question is a failure of understanding who or what God is. Someone who asks that question "who made God?" thinks that in order for God to exist he must be made, since this person is admitting that for something to exist it must be created. Within our time, space and reality, that is true, but we must understand that God is not within our time and space, and reality. To say that since God is not part of our time, space and reality he can not exist is absurd. For example, everything that you see, all life, all material all live or exist within time, BUT they also live in their own APPOINTED time. We will all eventually pass on, but in our own time, some may live longer and others may not, so we exist within a period of time. What we create can only exist within a period of time. I can create something that can last for 20 years. In order for me to create I must exist outside of my creation, and am not subject to the time limit of my creation and neither to my creations properties and functionality.
So as we can see, there is simple logic to the reasoning in God's existence, he exists outside of our time and space, hence is not effected by natural laws. Hence can not be created or made, since logically he must be eternal, and outside of all that materially exists.

Science is based on many laws, one law is "cause and effect". This law is universally accepted because it is testable, and also within reason and logic. No effect is ever quantitatively "greater" nor quantitatively "superior" to it's cause. An effect can be lower than it's cause but never higher.

Let's use causal reasoning:

1. The First Cause of limitless Space: Must be Infinite.
2. The First Cause of Endless Time: Must be Eternal.
3. The First Cause of Boundless Energy: Must be Omnipotent.
4. The First Cause of Universal Interrelationships: Must be Omnipresent.
5. The First Cause of Infinite Complexity: Must be Omniscient.
6. The First Cause of Moral Values: Must be Moral.
7. The First Cause of Spiritual Values: Must be Spiritual.
8. The First Cause of Human Responsibility: Must be Volitional.
9. The First Cause of Human Integrity: Must be Truthful.
10. The First Cause of Human Love: Must be Loving.
11. The First Cause of Life: Must be Living.

Now, someone could object to these and say…"These are natural emotions, therefor God must be natural." But that is also untrue, since many emotions and knowledgeable truths cant be proven scientifically. They are metaphysical.

So far, I believe we have good reason to believe God exists, without using Scripture, but logic, and science i.e. the laws of cause and effect. And good reason to believe that God is uncaused, therefor is eternal and always existed.

Let's take another look at that question "Who made God?". Let's just assume that God had parents. He would still need to exist outside of our time and space, and he would still be our creator, he just wouldn't be God. Creator does not define God, but rather create is something God does. But since logic and science prove that God must be eternal, since the First Cause of Limitless Space and Time, God must be Infinite and Eternal. Therefore God would be limitless, i.e. Infinite and Eternal.

Now science doesn't prove there is a God, it does give us reason to believe logical that there MUST BE a God, and that in order for all to exist God is required. Let's look at science, and what science can't prove.

Truth is something Science can't prove.

1. Truth is discovered, not invented. It exists independent of anyone's knowledge of it. Gravity existed prior to it's discovery.
2. Truth is transcultural; if something is true, it is true for all people, in all places, at all times. 2+2=4 for everyone, everywhere, at every time.
3. Truth is unchanging even though our BELIEFS about truth change. We believed it was true that the coelacanth was extinct, we were wrong, the truth was that it wasn't.
4. Beliefs cannot change a fact, no matter how sincerely they are held.
5. Truth is not affected by the attitude of the one professing it.
6. All truths are absolute truths. Even truths that appear to be relative are really absolute.

The mere existence of good and evil, is evidence of the existence of God. Honestly, does anyone think that good and evil are man made inventions?

Well, I'm sure if you decided to read this threw, or attempted to, you couldn't keep your eyes open or lost interest half way through and therefor wouldn't be reading this far so anyway. These are just a few of many reasons why the "Who made God" question or argument doesn't cary weight, since the laws of cause and effect shows that God is eternal etc.

Thanks for reading those who dared.

Elijah
 

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