It is one of the most common questions people ask. Simple on the surface, yet deeply profound.
If everything has a beginning… then who made God?
Apologist Frank Turek recently addressed this very challenge, a question often raised by skeptics when discussing faith and creation. And his response does not begin with religion, but with something many scientists already agree on.
The universe had a beginning.
Even physicist Stephen Hawking acknowledged that space, time, and matter came into existence at what we call the Big Bang. In other words, everything we see around us is not eternal. It had a starting point.
And that is where the question becomes more serious.
If space, time, and matter all began… what caused them?
Turek explains it this way. The cause of the universe cannot be part of the universe itself. It must exist outside of space, outside of time, and beyond physical matter. Something timeless. Something immaterial. Something powerful enough to bring everything into existence from nothing.
That description begins to sound familiar.
It sounds like what many call God.
But what about the follow-up question?
Who created God?
Turek’s answer challenges the assumption behind the question itself. If God is truly outside of time, then He does not have a beginning. And if He has no beginning, He does not need a cause.
In philosophy, this idea is known as the “uncaused first cause.” It points to a starting point that itself was not started by anything else. A foundation that holds everything, yet depends on nothing.
Because without such a beginning, we are left with an endless chain of causes that never actually begins.
And if nothing ever truly begins, then nothing would exist now.
Yet here we are.
This is not just a debate for philosophers. It touches something deeper in all of us.
The sense that life is not random. That existence has meaning. That behind everything seen, there may be something unseen holding it all together.
The Bible describes God in a simple but powerful way. “I Am.” Not “I was created.” Not “I began.” Just eternal presence.
You may agree. You may still have questions. That is part of the journey.
But perhaps the bigger question is not just where God comes from.
Perhaps it is this.
If there is an uncaused source behind everything… what does that mean for our lives right now?
Apologist Frank Turek
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