¿Quién hizo a Dios?

By Bobby Conway

Have you ever talked to a skeptic and he or she comes up with the timeless trick question: “So, who made God?” Asking “Who made God?” is like asking “What does Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata taste like?” The question just doesn’t make sense. This question is a classic category mistake. God was not created and Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata cannot be appreciated with the palate. Adding to this nonsense is the famous atheist Bertrand Russell with his famous phrase: “If everything has a beginning, then God must have one.” However, it is not true that everything has an beginning. Only that which will come into existence has an beginning. And in this God is unique in a category that belongs only to him.

God is the uncreated Creator.

He is the origin without beginning.

He has no beginning but is the Beginning of everything that has existed.

Think about it for a moment. Everything that has had a beginning also had an origin. And in every beginning there is the Initiator. And behind every product there is a Producer. And for every work there is an Artificer. If something has an origin, it is certain that there is also an inventor. And since there is a genesis, there is also the Author.

And that author friend of mine is, well, you guessed it.

God.

The Scriptures declare from the very first verse, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1). God was not created, He is the creator of all that exists.

Let me explain it to you in another way, pay attention. The difference between God and everything else is that all of that came into existence at a certain point in time, whereas God just exists. Do you remember what God said to Moses when he appeared to him in the midst of the burning bush? Moses posed the following scenario.

Then Moses said to God, “If I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ what shall I say to them?” Then God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘I AM has sent me to you. ’” (Exodus 3:13-14)

What was God showing Moses? He reveals Himself to Moses as the self-existent One. The One who was not created. In other words, God was saying, “Moses, go and tell them that the One who had no beginning has sent you. The One who is uncreated.”

Unlike us, God is what philosophers call a necessary being, an independent being. And each of us, except for God, is a contingent being and therefore dependent. The universe is also in the contingent category because God spoke it into existence. This means that all things that had a beginning in order to exist depend on God to continue existing.

All of the above shows that there is an inconsistency with the question “Who created God?” The phrase created cannot be linked to God, since God is the uncreated Creator. As expected, He is in a category where He is the only subject.

Recommended resources in Spanish:

Stealing from God ( Paperback ), ( Teacher Study Guide ), and ( Student Study Guide ) by Dr. Frank Turek

Why I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist ( Complete DVD Series ), ( Teacher’s Workbook ), and ( Student’s Handbook ) by Dr. Frank Turek

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Bobby is the senior pastor of Image Church in North Carolina and is well known for his ministry on the One Minute Apologist YouTube channel, which remains online but now under the name Christianity Still Makes Sense. He also co-hosts the national call-in radio show Pastor’s Perspective on KWVE in Southern Carolina. Bobby earned his Master’s degree from Dallas Theological Seminary, his Doctorate of Ministry Apologetics from Southern Evangelical Seminary, and his Doctor of Philosophy in the area of ​​Philosophy of Religion from the University of Birmingham (England) where he was mentored by David Cheetham and Yujin Nagasawa. Boby has written several books including The Fifth Gospel, Doubting Toward Faith, Does God Exist, Fifty-One other Questions About God and the Bible, and the upcoming Christianity Still Makes Sense to be published by Tyndale in April 2024. He is married to his loving wife Heather and they have two grown children: Haley and Dawson.

Translated by Gustavo Camarillo
Edited by Yatniel Vega Garcia