Sunday, February 14, 2016

WHO CREATED GOD

     Concerning God, the Creator, the Book of Job in the Bible rhetorically ask, thus:
     "Can you search out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limits of the Almighty? They are higher than the heaven-what you can do? Deeper than Sheol-what can you know? Their measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea." (Job 11:7-8, New King James Version).
     Though many deep things about God cannot be completely understood and explained by our finite mind, there are things about Him that we can comprehend as they were revealed through the Holy Scriptures.
     "The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law." (Deut. 29:29)
     Hence, through the Bible, we learn for instance that God is omnipotent or Almighty (Gen. 35:11), omniscient or knows everything (I John 3:20), omnipresent or is everywhere (Eph. 4:6; Jer. 23:23-24). His ways are just (Ezek. 18:25), and nothing is impossible without Him (Luke 1:37, New International Version).
     However, as to who created God and where He came from, the answer is no one and nowhere, for God is not created being but is a creator of all things (Isa. 64: 4,8; 45:18). God has no beginning and no end; He is eternal or everlasting:
     "Before you created the hills or brought the world into being, you were eternally God, and will be God forever." Ps. 90:2, Today's English Version).
     The eternal God, the Creator of all things, is the Father, as taught in the Old Testament (Mal. 2:10, New International Version) and the New Testament (John 17:1, 3, New King James Version).
     The one true God is spirit (John 4:24), that is, without flesh and bones (Luke 24:38-39) and thus is invisible by nature (I Tim 1:17). Yet, we know and believe that God exist, as Apostle Paul pointed out:
     "Ever since God created the world, his invisible qualities, both his eternal power and his divine nature, had been clearly seen, they are perceived in the things that God had made. So those people have no excuse at all!" (Rom. 1:20, Today's English Version).
     In the things that God has made-among others, the heaven and the skies and everything in them (Ps. 19:1-4, New International Version) the beast, birds, and fish (Job 12:7-9), and the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind" (Job 12:10). God existence, eternal power, and nature are "clearly seen".