Originally posted by tomtom232
If God created the universe then what created God?
Well, I propose that God did. What, you say? That is laughably circular!
It is circular but not laughably so.
Just read on.
Take an infinite line, we'll call it eternity.
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If God created the universe then what created God?
No one. God is uncreated and eternal life.
Are you diminished in some way if this is true ?
Does such a truth dampen your desire to search out fascinating scientific discoveries ?
How does God being the uncreated and eternal God pose some affront to your humanity ? That is if it does ?
If such a God so loves us, would God's being created by something else, improve the quality of that love ?
This uncreated One put on created humanity in Jesus Christ. Isn't that
enough of an empathetic, sympathetic identification with our finititude ?
I consider what
Hebrews says:
"Since the children have shared in blood and flesh, He also Himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death He might destroy him who has the might of death, that is, the devil." (Heb. 2:14)
So God has an attribute which we cannot have - He is
uncreated. He always was. Isn't it enough though, that He partook of blood and flesh in the incarnation in Jesus Christ ?