Who made God?

Thus asked a member of the congregation and I wasn’t quite sure how to take it.  Was it serious?  Was it a bit flippant or tongue-in-cheek?

Let’s assume in the first instance that the person was serious.  In Christian theology God is unmade.  God simply is.  God existed before anything was and will be there when all things draw to a close.  Something like Aristotle’s unmoved mover. 

The question may have been an expression of perplexity.  We cannot conceive of anything like this.  We cannot imagine something, a being, an essence, God which exists for all time and all eternity.  Something that jut is.  It goes beyond one of my favourite illustrations.  The Hubble telescope has sent back pictures of dust clouds light years high.  That’s enormous and mind-boggling and yet the creator God is beyond even that idea.  Mind numbing.

But then again, maybe the question… click here to read more