by Dan Mason

Created on: July 07, 2008

The question of who created God is to me, another unfortunate stumbling block preventing many people from ever coming to know God. Just like all the other token arguments, like 'If God is so good, why does he let bad things happen?', this question holds a tremendous amount of power to cause harm.

Too often, people allow these sorts of questions to dictate their acceptance of God. We love to use our logic and intellect to disprove God's existence, to praise ourselves for all of our personal and collective gains. But maybe we are reaping the benefits of being blessed with gifts that allow us to see gain. But, in lieu of that, to address the question in the title of this article:

The easy answer is that we don't know who, if anyone, created God. We don't really know who God is, what He looks like, or what He sounds like. Certainly, with the countless different religions that exist, there are many different theories. The problem is, we want our God to reflect us. Look at Christianity, where there are hundreds of denominations who have fought, argued, and even killed one another for thousands of years because they all have a slightly different picture of God; They seem to forget that Christianity is the belief that Jesus was the Christ, and that he died and rose again. If that is the central issue, why then do all the particulars become so important? If I like to take Main Street to get to the mall, and you like to take 2nd Street to 4th Street before arriving at the same mall, haven't we both accomplished the same thing? Is it worth arguing whose route is better?

This is the problem with questions such as "Who created God?": They tend to cause too much division and argument, rather than focus us on the central issue that there may indeed be a God who loves us and has a purpose for us. The entire issue of creation does the same thing. Evolution and creation are presented as polar opposites. But each account begins with nothing but dust particles swirling around in space, or some sort of void, and then some immensely powerful event occurring which created life. It may be God speaking, it may be the Big Bang; even scientists acknowledge that they have no indication what the Big Bang may have been. It could have been God's spoken word. Then again, maybe it wasn't. We simply can't know.

To speak again of the Christian belief, Genesis is often held to be literal fact by Christians. But if one was to study the Hebrew that it was originally written in, one would find that

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