Who created God?
This question is based on the assumption that every effect must have a cause. Because everything created has a cause, it is concluded that God must also have a cause. However, this argument contains a crucial flaw. The assumption that every effect has a cause does not mean that God is an effect or that "everything" necessarily has a cause. That the universe has an origin is demonstrated, among other things, by the fact that there are parameters without which neither life nor the universe could exist in its current form. These parameters are space, time, matter, and energy. Energy and matter cannot create themselves from nothing, nor can individual elements combine to form a complex, functional system without an ordering force. Just as matter cannot arise from energy, nor can a living organism arise from inanimate matter. God, on the other hand, consists of neither energy nor matter, yet is real and alive.
Furthermore, laws that are precisely coordinated mathematically and physically are at work throughout the universe. It is this fine-tuning that makes life possible in the first place. This fact, too, clearly testifies to the existence of a higher power that has determined and coordinated all parameters and laws. Consequently, God himself must be the cause above all and exist independently of space, time, matter, and all scientific laws. In contrast to the created universe and us humans, God is not conditioned or limited by any external factors—neither by space nor time nor anything else. God exists of his own accord. If there were something that limited God, he would not be God. The cause-and-effect principle is therefore not transferable to God.
Humans believe that with their limited understanding they can explain God, the Creator of the universe. This assumption is both absurd and presumptuous. The truth is that there are things beyond our comprehension. The meaning of our lives is not to explain God, but to love Him and live in accordance with His plan for our lives. This is the true knowledge of God and, at the same time, the basis for peace, freedom, and happiness.
Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm. He said: "Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge? Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me. Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand."
The Lord said to Job: "Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let him who accuses God answer him!" Then Job answered the Lord: "I am unworthy—how can I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth. I spoke once, but I have no answer— twice, but I will say no more."
You have searched me, Lord, and You know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; You perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; You are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue You, Lord, know it completely. You hem me in behind and before, and You lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are Your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with You.
Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. (...)
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
No one is like You, Lord; You are great, and Your name is mighty in power.
He (God) has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. (...) I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.
Then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.
Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments, and His paths beyond tracing out! “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?” “Who has ever given to God, that God should repay them?” For from him and through Him and for Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.
Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become “fools” so that you may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”; and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”
Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that “We all possess knowledge.” But knowledge puffs up while love builds up. Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know. But whoever loves God is known by God.