{"id":24509,"date":"2015-12-14T00:10:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T06:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/?p=24509"},"modified":"2023-06-19T20:57:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T01:57:19","slug":"god-caused-everything-caused-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/god-caused-everything-caused-god\/","title":{"rendered":"If God Caused Everything, Then Who or What Caused God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>One of the questions believers are asked is, \u201cWho or what caused God?\u201d The simplest answer is to reply, \u201cIf God could be caused to exist, then he would not be God!\u201d God is eternal; he has life without beginning or end. Because God has always existed, he didn\u2019t need a cause. This concept is hard for our finite minds to comprehend; we tend to think that everything has to have a beginning.<\/p>\n<p>While our minds cannot fathom how God has always existed, this does not mean that it\u2019s illogical to believe it to be true. We naturally sense that something outside of our universe had to cause it to come into existence. The eternal Creator God is the most reasonable explanation. The bible says that only a fool says there is no god. We are all foolish in our thinking until God opens our hearts and minds to his truths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave you never heard?\u201d Isaiah asked. \u201cHave you never understood? The Lord is the everlasting God\u201d (Isaiah 40:28).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong> Do you have trouble believing that God wasn\u2019t created by someone or thing bigger than himself? If no, why not?<br \/>\n<strong>Question:<\/strong> In a minute or so, share how you would explain your belief in God as Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Content adapted from Josh and Sean McDowell&#8217;s book, <a href=\"https:\/\/store.josh.org\/product\/77-faqs-about-god-and-the-bible\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>77 FAQs about God and the Bible<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the questions believers are asked is, \u201cWho or what caused God?\u201d The simplest answer is to reply, \u201cIf God could be caused to exist, then he would not be God!\u201d God is eternal; he has life without beginning or end. Because God has always existed, he didn\u2019t need a cause. This concept is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23327,"featured_media":54435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"While our minds cannot fathom how God has always existed, this does not mean that it\u2019s illogical to believe it to be true.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[181,182,183,184,185],"translator":[],"blog-author":[78],"class_list":["post-24509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-77-faqs","tag-apologetics","tag-creation","tag-existence","tag-god","tag-josh-dowell","blog-author-josh-mcdowell-ministry-team"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/607\/2020\/04\/77-FAQs-1.png","meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24509"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/translator?post=24509"},{"taxonomy":"blog-author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog-author?post=24509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}