If God created everything, who created God?
Some logical answers to this most commonly asked question...
*Logic no.1*
Once a child read a novel for the first time in his life and, on coming to know that the novel was written by an author, he asked, “Where is the author in the novel?” The above question is quite similar to that. The answer obviously is that the author is not in the novel; he created the timeline, the storyline and the characters in the novel, but he exists outside the novel. Similarly God created time, space and everything, including all of us, who live within time and space, but He Himself exists outside the fabric of time and space. (Although some of us may find dimensions other than time and space difficult to conceive, physicists confirm that higher dimensions are not only possible, but necessary, to rationally explain the universe. For example, the superstring theory defines eleven dimensions, only four of which we experience.) So everything that exists within time and space needs a beginning, a cause, but God who exists outside it, needs no cause, for He is the cause of time and space.
*Logic no. 2*
The Vedic literatures provide us the definition of God – Sarva karana karanam. “He is the cause of all causes.” That means, while tracing back the origin of all the things around us, the point where we stop is God. If God were to have an origin, then that origin would be actually God. Because even according to pure logic, the source of everything cannot have a source. So this question is itself illogical as it is based on an illogical understanding of the term God.
*Logic no. 3*
Modern science has confirmed that our universe has a beginning, that it is not eternal. Most current scientific theories propose the origin of the universe as a singularity, a point of infinite density, infinite temperature and infinitesimal size, a point that is beyond all conceptions of space and time, a point that is mathematically indescribable and physically unrealizable. And science has no answer to the question of where this singularity came from. Thus even so-called rational science cannot avoid ascribing inconceivable (we could say ‘irrational’) attributes to the origin of everything; but it is ascribing them to a lump of matter instead of God.
So materialistic science and spirituality both require us to accept on faith what they tell us is the origin of the universe,
but lets examine:
which faith is more reasonable?
What is our experience in the real world?
Does a lump of matter organize itself into a building or does an intelligent person organize lumps of matter into a building?
All experience shows that an intelligent person is needed. So isn’t it logical that the organization, structure and harmony in the universe – the cosmic building we live in – require a Superintelligent Person, not just a super-energetic lump of matter?
Of course somebody may argue that matter may be able to organize itself, but that has not been verified, either through scientific experiment or human experience.
Therefore any materialistic alternative to God as the origin of everything requires unreasonable, unproven, blind faith.
