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 8th 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
"...be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you...," 1 Peter 3:15
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See: Richard Dawkins: The God delusion (New York Houghton Miffin, 2006), 188.
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