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If God Created Everything Then Who Created God?
The laws governing energy create a dilemma about our existence
It’s everywhere, and yet it’s nowhere. It forms the fabric of life, yet you can’t see it, feel it, or smell it. From microscopic bacteria to humans to trees, from the Earth to the Sun to the entire universe, everything exists due to laws governing energy. One of those laws is that energy can’t be created or destroyed. But, it can be converted from one form to another. If that’s the case, though, then how did it come about in the first place? It is the ultimate dilemma at the heart of our existence.
For many, God created the Earth and the universe. This gets to the crux of the dilemma with creation — if energy can’t be created or destroyed, only converted, how did God come into being in the first place? If God was created by a creator, then who created the creator who created God, and why? We aren’t just referring to some random anomaly here. We’re talking about a creation that has the power to create an entire universe.
A dilemma at the heart of creation
The same dilemma is true of the big bang theory. The theory argues billions of years ago, all the energy in the universe was at one point in time, known as a singularity. That singularity then exploded, and the…
