A common challenge to theistic propositions of a creator deity as a necessary first-cause explanation for the universe is the question: "Who created God?
[3]John Humphreys writes: ... if someone were able to provide the explanation, we would be forced to embark upon what philosophers call an infinite regress.
[4]Alan Lurie writes: In response to one of my blogs about God's purpose in the creation of the universe, one person wrote, "All you've done is divert the question.
", has been pondered by theologians for millennia, and the answer is both surprisingly obvious and philosophically subtle ... whatever one thinks about the beginnings of the Universe, there is "something" at the very origin that was not created.
[5]Joseph Smith stated in the King Follett discourse: God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens!
It is the first principle of the gospel to know for a certainty the character of God, and to know that we may converse with Him as one man converses with another, and that He was once a man like us; yea, that God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ Himself did ... Is it logic to say that a spirit is immortal and yet has a beginning?
But if I am right, I might with boldness proclaim from the house tops that God never did have power to create the spirit of man at all.
Actually, only created things have a creator, so it's improper to lump God with his creation.
[6]Ray Comfort, author and evangelist, writes: No person or thing created God.
He moves through time as we flip through a history book...He dwells in "eternity," having no beginning or end.
[7]Tzvi Freeman writes on the official Chabad website: Ibn Sina, the preeminent Arabic philosopher, answered this question a thousand years ago, when he described G-d as non-contingent, absolute existence.
The question becomes irrelevant if the universe is presumed to have circular time instead of linear time, undergoing an infinite series of big bangs and big crunches on its own.