26/09/2022
Who Created God?
By Father Gabriel Wissa
In the name of the Father, the Son and of the Holy Spirit. One God, Amen!
'Who Created God?'
This is perhaps one of the most popular questions we here nowadays.
But thinking about this question is actually the question of time.
And it implies that God is inside of time.
Furthermore, if we ask this question,
We have to also ask,
'Who created the person that created God?' and so on and so forth.
However, the question by itself is a fallacy meaning that it's built on a false assumption that God is inside of time.
At least that's not the God we worship in a Christian faith.
Let me put it this way,
If I, per se, create a table or a chair, am I inside that table or chair?
The answer is plain No.
So, we believe that God created this plane of time that we live in.
That's why we have past, present and future.
But for God is above this timeline and not merely affected by it,
God does not grow older.
He has the same yesterday, today and forever.
Our God is unchangeable because he is above time.
He is the Alpha and the Omega.
He is everlasting.
He is the beginning and the end,
that's why St. John in his gospel says the following:
"1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God.
3 all things were made through Him
and without Him nothing was made that was made."
John 1:1-3 (NKJV)
Here 'the beginning' means even before time existed.
So, what brings people to ask this question?
Logically, in our reality, we're born at a point and grow up older and we know of that someday we'll die.
We take this observation and try to apply it to our God.
But it doesn't work that way.
Let it sink in that God is a Creator and we are His creations when it comes to our relationship with God.
Our characteristics' as a being are very different.
So we can not take the behavours or characters of humanity and apply it to God.