That's merely your conclusion. Others (like me) understand God as a being that was not created. Being Created contradicts Divinity. It's like asking "Who killed Newton's wife" when Newton, in fact, had no wife.
I conclude that God is the origin of everything. this is something you can't prove or disprove with Science. Some might argue it's not worth thinking about, but it comes down to the individual whether they want to think about it or not.
The distinction is that unlike everything in creation, God does not derive His being from an outside source. You and I, and (everything else) are dependent on things outside of us to cause us to be and continue being. We are, out of, something else.
Not one of us decided to be born, but through the actions of others we came to be. And we continue to be, because we have food and water and shelter and clothing, etc.
God, unlike the things He has made doesn't depend on something else to be or continue being. He has always been. He isn't out of anything but is self-existent; He doesn't exist but rather is. And because He is, everything else (all of which depends on Him to be) continues to be.
God, as creator of time, is outside of time. Since therefore He has no beginning in time, He has always existed, so doesn't need a cause. I long wrestled with the idea that the Universe could have existed forever, as a way to solve the first cause paradox, but I was never comfortable with the idea. So I've made a leap of faith and applied the same mental framework to an immaterial construct (God), and for the sake of my sanity I don't try to go further than that :-]
I believe there are questions that aren't meant to be answered, and knowing the truth would break our collective minds.
Lol. Ok, my entire comment went over your head. You say that "God is not a created being". But I say "Why is God not a created being? Why do you say that?" The only answer I've ever heard to that is "Well, if God created everything else, then how can there be something greater than God?" You say, "God is greater, of a different nature, etc. etc." But that's just what you say, there's no logical reason why that has to be the case. Yes, God's parent God created God, who created the Universe. Since God is fundamentally different than all "lesser things", there is no contradiction there. God-stuff made other God-stuff, which made non-God-stuff. You can't have it both (all) ways. I say: "God emerged from primordial God goo, and it will return to primordial God goo when it feels like it." Or whatever; it's just philosophical posturing. I can make up things that don't exist which have no foundational rules as well as anyone else. Nothing makes any of it true, or necessarily as someone says it is (it's all "belief by convention").
> If you make the argument that a deity is its own creator and cause, that idea could be applied to the existing physical universe directly.
The big bang could be seen as the physical universe creating itself.
Of course you could also see it as created by God (I certainly do), but these two are pretty much your only options, and I don't think one of them is more or less valid than the other. And with God not being subject to the physical universe or its laws, from scientific viewpoint, it's irrelevant. It might as well be the universe creating itself. The difference exists only outside the reach of science.
Nowhere, that's kind of the definition of God (for a Christian at least): it always was, and is the ultimate origin. It is different than a direct influence in the world.
Well, where do physics come from? That's a huge problem right there.
As for the creator of God, that problem is easily solved with the bible: God is the one who is. He is the only one who always was, and always will be. He is everything and the cause of everything.
If 'god' did not create the universe but allowed the Big Bang to take place then it would be impossible to 'anthropologise' this deity. 'god' would just be an energy completely unlike how the religious view he/her/it.
If you believe in God then the universe is a creation of God and we are creations of God which separately adapt and create things of their own. Such as offspring. And the purpose is for God's glory.
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