Have you ever wondered what was before God? How He came about? Who made Him? We’ll look at that in this blog so grab a seat, take a deep breath and make sure your thinking cap is firmly in place because here we go!
LIMITS: First, remember that us trying to understand God, what was before Him, etc., is like trying to run NASA’s space programs on my phone or laptop. There just isn’t the capacity to run that program, and the same with us understanding God. We are a speck on a speck that is part of a galaxy that is just a speck in the universe, so the fact we can’t know and understand everything about God shouldn’t surprise us.
There are other things we don’t understand, but take by faith. What was here before God created the world? How can Jesus be 100% God and 100% man? How can God be three yet one? How can it be that everything is under God’s sovereign control yet we are responsible for how we use our free will? I’m sure you can add more but you get the idea. There are things we can’t ever know on this earth, but let’s see what we can know about our opening questions. There are answers to these, but we don’t have the capacity, perspective or experience to grasp the answers even if they were told to us. Try explaining blue to a blind person.
GROUNDRULES: Another limit is that everything we know is in our 3-diminensional time-space universe. We don’t know of anything without beginning or end, start of stop, so we can’t imagine God without beginning or end. But He is. No one created God. If we say there must have been a force that created God, then we must next ask who created that force, and if was another power then how was it created. This goes on and on. It is fruitless to try to understand.
THEN WHO IS GOD? God is the Creator of the Universe (Genesis 1:1). Through Him and by Him, all things are made (Romans 11:36). He sustains every living thing. Every living thing is finite and dependent upon His existence. Because of His infinite nature, He does not depend on anything for His existence. God created us with enough brain capacity to understand Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning was God.” That’s as far back as we can go. We can’t take our limited 3-dimensional understanding and try to impose it on God and eternity past. Before creation there was no such thing as time, and without time there can’t be any such thing as ‘beginning’ or ‘end.’ Run that the other direction, into the future, and that proves eternal life with God. It isn’t time that never ends, it is lack of any such thing as ‘time’ so of course there couldn’t possibly be an end? Understand? Still with me? Still interested? If not, no problem. Go do something else. But if you want to continue, let’s move on.
THE NEXT SETP: The universe we live in is limited, not eternal. The Second Law of Thermodynamics affirms that the universe has a limited amount of energy and is therefore finite. And therefore, it needs a creator – someone greater than it and outside it to bring it into being and keep it going. Thus, God. If atheists and evolutionists can prove the universe always existed they can claim there is no need for a greater Power to create it. But science knows there was a beginning sometime in the past. So there had to be a Creator.
NOW FOR THE GOOD NEWS: God is also our Father as well as Creator. He didn’t simply create everything, sit back, and let the world tick on its own, as a deist perspective might suggest. Instead, He made Himself part of the narrative. We, his creation, are his children. We can see verses about God’s fatherhood throughout the Old and New Testament. God has compassion for his children (Psalm 103:13) and those who honor him. He cares for all creation and values us greatly (Matthew 6:26). We come to know God the Father through our relationship with Jesus (John 14:6), and our Father is everlasting (Isaiah 9:6).
SO THEN WHERE DID GOD COME FROM? The question is contradictory. God does not change, He does not move, and He didn’t come from somewhere (Hebrews 13:8). He always was, is, and is to come.
THEN WHAT WAS GOD DOING BEFORE CREATION? If creation started at a set point of time, what was God doing before He created the world and people? Actually, this is an improper question. Before creation there was no time or space. They didn’t exist until creation. God is not limited by time. He transcends it and can’t be held to its limits, especially before it was created. Still, God existed before time and, although He wasn’t doing anything as we measure it now, He did exist. He had an eternal plan (John 17:24). He wasn’t alone for God is a Trinity and all three Persons were there. He didn’t need creation or man to fill a need or emptiness in Him.
HOW IS GOD DIFFERENT THAN THE ‘GODS’ OF OTHER ELIGIONS? First: He’s all powerful (Omnipotent, Job 42:2). Second: He’s all knowing (Omniscient). Therefore, He must be infinite. But some other religions claim their god/gods are all powerful and all-knowing as well. They claim their gods are infinite. Here’s how we know our God is unique.
First, he wants a personal relationship with His creation. No other god is willing to come down in the form of man and suffer a horrendous death for the sake of having a relationship with their creation. You do not see that in other religions.
Second, the Bible is more scientifically, historically, and prophetically accurate than the texts of any other religion. Although you can’t use a text as definitive proof of someone’s existence, it certainly bolsters the possibility. (see my book “Why We Believe”)
Third, God is not dependent on his creation. Other religions (both monotheistic and polytheistic) run into a couple of theological issues. If their god is one and only one, then the god creates out of boredom or loneliness. That would make the god dependent on his creation. If there are many gods, then there is no one true powerful being, and therefore, they are finite in power. However, if God is One, but with three persons within the One (the Trinity) then God creates as an act of love, not necessity, and maintains His omnipotence.
IN COLCUSION: On a logical standpoint, we have to consider how the universe came into existence in the first place. Because of the second law of thermodynamics, the universe is finite. That means something infinite had to create it. And based on the mathematical patterns and complexity we see in creation, it had to be something all-powerful, personal, and eternal. It had to be Something greater than the universe and outside the universe. Only the God of the Bible qualifies for that. All of creation points to a Creator (Psalm 19:1-4) who always existed and who always will exist. The really astounding part of all this is that this Creator-God chose to create us with a free will so we could choose to follow Him. Then He also planned to come to earth as one of us to pay for that sin when it did happen just so we could be with Him for all eternity, way beyond the end of time. We may not understand it all, but can certainly know it is true.
Pause for a moment to praise God for His wonderful plan, far beyond what we can understand or even need to understand. Thank Him for including you in that plan as well.
If you read this I’d love to hear from you. Share your thoughts, questions and conclusions. That helps me grow in understanding as well.
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