WHERE DID GOD COME FROM? PART 1

By: Medrick Mwale

The inexplicable mystery question to ask. Others say, "when you ask a question like that you might go mad". Hence, majority of people tend not to ask this question. So, I opted to ask myself where God came from, it got me thinking; and something spark in my head, an illumination through the cracks of my baffling question; something remarkable, and I thought it wise to bring into light few insights about God’s origin on this weblog. Yeah; I know it sounds crazy, 'God's origin?!' But yes, God's origin!

The question lies on the fact that all things need a cause. See: ‘The God Delusion’ by Richard Dawkins.' In this book Richard contends that a Supernatural Creator almost certainly exists not; and that belief in a personal god qualifies as a delusion, which he calls as a persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence. He is sympathetic to Robert Pirsig’s (an American philosopher) statement in the book ‘Lila: an inquiry into morals (1991) that, “when one person suffer from delusion it is called insanity. But when many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.” He further brings into light the question who created God using a word ‘designer’ saying “who designed the designer?” since God is the designer of everything.

This is a sophisticated kind of a basic question we all struggle with and many run away from asking, because it stems from the false hypothesis that God came from somewhere and then questions where that might be. It is like asking:

How much does letter ‘A’ weigh? Or what does number ‘12’ smell like?

Letter ‘A’ is not in the category of things that have weight and number ‘12’ is not in the category of things that have smell. What am trying to say is that the question, “who created God?” or "where did God come from?" Does not even make sense. The question is flawed. God is not in the category of things that are created or caused. God is uncaused and uncreated- he simply exits.

From my basic mathematics in my 8^th grade, I vividly recall what my mathematics teacher told me. He told me that I can’t divide a number by zero. For instance, '12 divided by 0'; I asked why it's like that. Then he gave me a more basic but sensible answer, he said as I quote, “you can’t get something from nothing”- indeed this is very true. We all know that from nothing, nothing comes. However, atheists and skeptics have based their argument on the notion that, for something to exist there should be a cause. You can't have an effect without a cause since to call something an effect is to imply that it has a cause - and to call something a cause is to imply that it has an effect.

Nonetheless, my bottom line here is this, if there were ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence, then nothing would have ever come into existence. But things do exist right? Therefore, since there could never have been absolutely nothing if something did not exist, then it is true to say that something might always have been in existence- that ever existing thing is what we call “GOD”. God is the uncaused being that caused everything else to come into existence. God is the uncreated creator who created the universe and everything in it. 

To further understand this topic, look out for my write up on God’s origin called:

‘DECRYPTING THE CODES OF GENESIS 1:1’ -

FOCUS ON GENESIS

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"...be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you...," 1 Peter 3:15

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sources:

See: Richard Dawkins: The God delusion (New York Houghton Miffin, 2006), 188.
See: Bible