"Every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything" (Hebrews 3:4, CEB).
NOTE: WE ARE ASSUMING EVERYTHING HAS BEEN CREATED!
This is a trick question since God is the Creator Himself, and no one else can create ex nihilo (out of naught) but Him. The question implies God can be created or that there is a Superior Being to God in the same universe! If God were created then He would not be Creator but created, and would not be eternal but captive to time with a beginning like us. God exists independent of the time-space continuum and therefore has no beginning (being eternal) and therefore cannot be created. But this is the one question that led to Bertrand Russell's faith collapsing--he couldn't reconcile this.
Nothing can create itself, or it would be a contradiction in terms--both a creator and created, both existing and not existing before itself! We know from the rules of logic that nothing can create itself nor be its own cause. Anything that has a cause is not eternal; God is eternal, and therefore uncaused. There can be causes without a cause but not an effect without a cause--God is no effect and not a creation but the original Cause and Creator. If someone caused God or created Him, that person would be the Creator or First Cause, Causa Prima, or Primary Mover of the cosmos--we define God as the Uncaused Cause, Uncreated Creator, Prime Mover, or Unmoved Mover. This is His self-existence or aseity. God is independent of everything and everyone and needs no one or nothing, not even a cause.
This is all Cosmology-101 (or dealing with causality--nothing just happens by itself!) and it demonstrates that you cannot cross infinity or infinite regress is impossible. That means that you cannot have an endless series of finite causes, but must have a first cause to start the chain of events. Every event has a cause (if an explosion happened, you would want to know what caused it). According to the kalam cosmological argument for God, "everything that begins to exist has a cause"--the universe began to exist and therefore had a cause or Beginner, while God didn't begin to exist and has no cause (creator)! But God is no event and a living Being that doesn't change, while being created implies being changed. God is the perfect One who needs no improvement, who cannot change for the better since He's already perfect and cannot change for the worse since He is perfect and needs no change or improvement and is immutable, according to Arthur Pink.
None of us will ever have a grasp on the creative act of God and the know-how of it, but we must accept God as our Creator by faith since faith pleases God. It is not too difficult to imagine something uncreated: where did love come from? where did justice and righteousness come from? what about fairness and mercy? God is love and without love, there would be no God--that's His essence. God needs no one and is a Law unto Himself with no one to be accountable to but Himself; i.e., He is also self-sufficient and meets all His own needs without us. He is complete in and of Himself. If He wants something He creates it. In this sense, God is the only free Being in the universe who can act freely and without restraint on His wants. We are fortunate that God wants us by His grace!
By contrast, men like to say they are self-made men, but this means they worship their creator, which is themselves! We need God--He doesn't need us! He is our judge; we are not His judge or critic. God shares of Himself and blesses us with gifts to be used as gifts back to Him; i.e., He gives us faith as a gift to us, and what we do with it is our gift to Him! In closing let me state that God is the Supreme Good and the standard and measure of goodness--the ultimate plumb-line. Without God, we would not know good--where would the idea come from if not God? And so goodness just exists as part of God's nature and it wasn't created either. Soli Deo Gloria!
NOTE: WE ARE ASSUMING EVERYTHING HAS BEEN CREATED!
This is a trick question since God is the Creator Himself, and no one else can create ex nihilo (out of naught) but Him. The question implies God can be created or that there is a Superior Being to God in the same universe! If God were created then He would not be Creator but created, and would not be eternal but captive to time with a beginning like us. God exists independent of the time-space continuum and therefore has no beginning (being eternal) and therefore cannot be created. But this is the one question that led to Bertrand Russell's faith collapsing--he couldn't reconcile this.
Nothing can create itself, or it would be a contradiction in terms--both a creator and created, both existing and not existing before itself! We know from the rules of logic that nothing can create itself nor be its own cause. Anything that has a cause is not eternal; God is eternal, and therefore uncaused. There can be causes without a cause but not an effect without a cause--God is no effect and not a creation but the original Cause and Creator. If someone caused God or created Him, that person would be the Creator or First Cause, Causa Prima, or Primary Mover of the cosmos--we define God as the Uncaused Cause, Uncreated Creator, Prime Mover, or Unmoved Mover. This is His self-existence or aseity. God is independent of everything and everyone and needs no one or nothing, not even a cause.
This is all Cosmology-101 (or dealing with causality--nothing just happens by itself!) and it demonstrates that you cannot cross infinity or infinite regress is impossible. That means that you cannot have an endless series of finite causes, but must have a first cause to start the chain of events. Every event has a cause (if an explosion happened, you would want to know what caused it). According to the kalam cosmological argument for God, "everything that begins to exist has a cause"--the universe began to exist and therefore had a cause or Beginner, while God didn't begin to exist and has no cause (creator)! But God is no event and a living Being that doesn't change, while being created implies being changed. God is the perfect One who needs no improvement, who cannot change for the better since He's already perfect and cannot change for the worse since He is perfect and needs no change or improvement and is immutable, according to Arthur Pink.
None of us will ever have a grasp on the creative act of God and the know-how of it, but we must accept God as our Creator by faith since faith pleases God. It is not too difficult to imagine something uncreated: where did love come from? where did justice and righteousness come from? what about fairness and mercy? God is love and without love, there would be no God--that's His essence. God needs no one and is a Law unto Himself with no one to be accountable to but Himself; i.e., He is also self-sufficient and meets all His own needs without us. He is complete in and of Himself. If He wants something He creates it. In this sense, God is the only free Being in the universe who can act freely and without restraint on His wants. We are fortunate that God wants us by His grace!
By contrast, men like to say they are self-made men, but this means they worship their creator, which is themselves! We need God--He doesn't need us! He is our judge; we are not His judge or critic. God shares of Himself and blesses us with gifts to be used as gifts back to Him; i.e., He gives us faith as a gift to us, and what we do with it is our gift to Him! In closing let me state that God is the Supreme Good and the standard and measure of goodness--the ultimate plumb-line. Without God, we would not know good--where would the idea come from if not God? And so goodness just exists as part of God's nature and it wasn't created either. Soli Deo Gloria!
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