Who Made God?

It’s one of the first questions a child asks, and it turns out to be a very good one—so good that answering it well reveals what the word “God” actually means. The short answer is: no one made God, and nothing had to. God did not “come from” anywhere, because he has always existed.

The question quietly assumes that God is one more thing inside the universe—an object that, like everything else, would need a cause. But that is not who God is. Everything within creation is contingent: it began, it depends on other things, it could have not existed. Such things need a cause. God, by definition, is not like that. He is the uncaused, eternal, necessary Being on whom everything else depends—“from everlasting to everlasting” (Psalm 90:2). To ask who made God is a bit like asking what is north of the North Pole: the question sounds normal but has misunderstood the terms.

This is why God names himself “I AM WHO I AM” (Exodus 3:14)—not “I became” or “I was made,” but sheer, underived existence. He is “the Alpha and the Omega… who is and who was and who is to come” (Revelation 1:8), “the everlasting God” who “does not faint or grow weary” (Isaiah 40:28).

There is also a bit of simple logic here. If everything that exists needed a maker, then that maker would need a maker, and so on forever, and nothing would ever get started—you cannot build a chain of dependent links with no anchor. Reality must finally rest on something that does not depend on anything else. Christians call that something Someone: the eternal God.

Far from being a dodge, this is deeply reassuring. The ground of everything is not blind chance or an endless regress, but a Being who simply is—stable, eternal, and self-sufficient—and who made you on purpose.