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GOD
Where
did God come from ?
ANSWER: The short answer is nowhere!
No one made God. In fact God said to John – one of the authors of the Bible - that He had no beginning and will have no end:
‘I am the Alpha and the Omega, who is and who was and who is to come.’
(Revelation chapter 1 verse8)
The very first verse of the Bible – Genesis chapter 1 verse1 states very clearly that God existed before the world came into existence, it says ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth….’ There was a beginning to the world, but not to God.
‘From everlasting to everlasting you are God’
(Psalms chapter 90 verse 2)
Now, I realise that this is beyond our ability to understand and it’s easier to say ‘But that’s not possible’, however if God was limited to only doing what we are able to do and by what we consider as ‘possible’, then he wouldn’t be God!
Let me quote at length the compelling logic of the late Professor Verna Wright:
‘The sceptic sometimes phrases it, ‘Where did God come from?’ He starts from two premises:
1. You can’t be eternally around without having a start.
2. I don’t believe in an original cause. From that he states,
3. I don’t believe in eternal existence
4. So once you are dead you are done for.
Let us know put to our sceptical atheist the question of the origin of the universe. There are two alternatives:
1. Matter has not always existed – if so, there was a Creator God.
2. Matter has always existed i.e. It wasn’t made.
The atheist obviously objects to the first proposition because it requires the existence of God. That leaves him with the solution of matter being eternally around without being made. But previously he had said you can’t be eternally around without having a start.
In other words, from pure logic the Universe demands the likelihood of an eternal God.’
Moreover, in order for something to have a beginning and an end there needs to be the existence of time. Because God is outside of time, indeed, because he created it with the creation of the world, He is not limited by the constraints of time. Therefore I find it very easy, again - logical – to believe in a God who has always existed and always will exist.
The tough part is that this God has created men and women with immortality in us, we have souls that will live on forever, long after our bodies have given up with life. And the Bible says that we will one day meet with this awesome, eternal God and that He will know everything about us. He longs to be reconciled to us, indeed He sent His Son to die for the many many things that separate us from Him – what the Bible calls sin. If I have an immortal part to me – where will it spend eternity? With the God of eternity or far from Him? The Bible only describes two places that are eternal, Hell and Heaven. Are you sure of your final resting place?
That is the inescapable question the Bible leaves with us, but it also gives a clear answer:
‘For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.’
(John chapter 3 verse 16)
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