I was first asked this question from a wide-eyed 5 year old in my scripture class back in the day. I thought it an odd question at the time. But after been asked this many times since by children, it got me thinking, ‘Why do people ask this question’?

So here is my attempt at answering it:

Everything we see, I mean everything- has a beginning. You’re sitting on a chair, someone made that. You are looking at a screen, quite a few people invented that. The list goes on; we look at things and it makes sense that it’s there, because someone made it. There is no mental stress involved here.

But then people tell us that there is a God. And we want to know, where did God come from? Who made God? We treat the existence of God with the same mental patterning as everything else and we cannot fathom the answer. The answer being that God was ALWAYS there! Always, meaning forever. Now there is mental stress involved, and we find it very hard to resolve this.

No one created God. And we can’t get our head around it. If you think about it, if someone created God, then they would be God.

The very definition of God is that:

He. Was. Always. There.

So that’s my answer, God is/was always there. And the reason that we cannot understand this answer, is that everything else has a beginning, which creates a cognitive dissonance (mental stress) that we cannot resolve.

The scripture verse I’d like to leave you with is the first verse of the bible, Genesis 1,

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”

God, who was always here, started to create, and the first thing He did was to build a world for you and me to live in. What a wonderful world we live in, and what an awesome God we have.

What a great question, so glad they asked.

Blessings, Vetti x