where God came from...


To begin with, consider the law of cause and effect. No effect can be produced without a cause. There's a note in your door. Someone put it there. The painting on the wall, someone drew it. Nothing comes from nothing! We as human beings and the universe itself are effects that must have had a cause. We come eventually to an uncaused cause, who is God.

The noted skeptic Bertrand Russell makes an astounding statement in his Why I Am Not a Christian. He says that when he was a child, "God" was given him as the answer to the many questions he raised about existence. In desperation he asked, "Well, who created God?" When no answer was forthcoming, he says, "My entire faith collapsed." Unfortunately, his is a common experience, yet it fails to answer the burning question.

God, the Creator, the Beginner, by definition is eternal. He is uncreated. He is self-existent. Were God a created being, he would not be a cause, he would be an effect. He would not and could not be God.

R. C. Sproul, author and lecturer, explains, "Being eternal, God is not an effect. Since he is not an effect, he does not require a cause. He is uncaused. It is important to note the difference between an uncaused, self-existent eternal being and an effect that causes itself through self-creation."

*******Paul E. Little




as for the energy... God can do anything. if the big bang was indeed the way the world was created, then he could produce the energy. but, that is not the case. God created the earth from nothing. he spoke and it was.