If God created everything, who created God?

This is a question that sounds devastating but actually dissolves under careful examination — and understanding why helps you understand something profound about the nature of God.

The question assumes that everything that exists must have a cause — that every being was made by something else. If that were true, then God would need a maker, and that maker would need a maker, and so on forever. But this assumption, while correct for everything within the universe, does not apply to God.

The cosmological argument — one of the most powerful arguments for God's existence — states: everything that begins to exist has a cause. The key word is "begins." The universe began to exist. Therefore the universe has a cause outside itself. But God, by definition, did not begin to exist. He is the eternal, self-existent one.

God's name in the Old Testament — Yahweh, built from the Hebrew verb "to be" — expresses this: He is the one who simply IS. Exodus 3:14: "I AM WHO I AM." Not "I was made" or "I began." He simply is — eternally, necessarily, without beginning or cause.

This is not special pleading for God; it is recognising that the universe requires an uncaused first cause. Infinite regress — everything caused by something else going back forever — is philosophically incoherent. There must be something at the foundation that is uncaused, eternal, and self-existent. That is what Christians mean by God.

The honest answer to "who made God?" is: nothing made God, because God did not begin. He has always existed. And that eternal, self-existent being is precisely what you would need to explain why anything else exists at all.

As Psalm 90:2 puts it: "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God."