To my brothers and sisters in Christ,
I live in a secular, godless society where people deny the existence of God.
Too often they can't get to the basics and ask: You talk so much about God and his evidence in creation, but who made God?
If you were talking to a secular person in your country, how would you answer the question: Who made God?
Blessings,
Oz
Hi Oz,
I also live in a secular country...Europe is pretty much secular these days. Churches are empty and traditions are disappearing.
Who made God is an interesting question.
I like to tell the person that we have two choices and only two:
And each choice has a problem and we can only decide with which problem we wish to spend the rest of our life.
1. God made everything. We can't understand how God is present or how He made everything or everything about Him or how He got to BE.
2. We have to accept that everything we see around us came about from nothing at all.
Quite a choice!
And yet, this is the choice we are faced with.
I tell them that if we're reading a book...
someone had to put that book together.
If we're wearing a watch...
someone had to make that watch.
The watchmaker theory.
This, to me, seems more logical.
Somehow, everything had to get here...
the question is which way do we trust more?
Nowadays, since we know so much more, I like to say how our DNA is organized and could not have come about by mistake or evolution -- it truly seems impossible when we understand how a cell functions.
So, I throw the old "something from nothing" impossibility out there and see how they handle it.
The other reasons are not accepted...like for instance..
the question is faulty because God was not created and the question assumes He was. They could care less about this reasoning.
But, even I think it is a real mystery that will be understood only after we pass away at which time we will know all.