Who Made God?

And Other Anxieties About Eternity 


You know that dizzy, stomach-twisting feeling when you start thinking about eternity? Like, how could your soul live forever?

And seriously… who created God? If God’s eternal, how does that even work?

When those “eternity scaries” hit me, here’s how I talk myself off the ledge to calm the nausea:

Imagine you’re a fish in a fishbowl.

You can see out, but everything’s really blurry. You have no clue what’s beyond your watery world. You do notice food magically appears sometimes, so you know something’s out there. But you’d probably assume it’s some kind of fishy creature. Something made of fins and gills like you.

Now, imagine catching a glimpse of the person putting the food. You’d probably freak out: “Wait! How does that thing breathe without gills? Why do they look like that? How can it live out there in the air?!”

Here’s the kicker: Our universe is like the fishbowl itself—a closed system with its own rules and limits. Our senses and understanding are bound within the fishbowl, unable to perceive what lies beyond. Just because the conditions inside this realm make certain forms of existence impossible doesn’t mean those forms cannot exist elsewhere. 

Now to the question:

Who made God? This is what’s called a categorical fallacy—which basically means it’s mixing up two things that don’t belong in the same category.

 

It’s like asking: 

“What color is the musical note C?”

or “How much does love weigh?”

Those questions don’t make sense because color doesn’t apply to sound, and weight doesn’t apply to emotions.

In the same way, “Who made God?” assumes that God is a created thing—something that had a beginning. But if God is truly eternal, then He doesn’t belong in the category of “things that are made.” Everything else in the universe might have a cause or a creator, but God, by definition, is the one who started it all and therefore wasn’t created Himself.

So when you’re spiraling about eternity and the nature of God…

Remember, that God doesn’t belong

in the creation category and you’re the fish in the bowl. 

You cannot successfully unravel the mystery of God’s eternity because you’re experiencing existence from within a fishbowl shaped by limits you weren’t meant to transcend. 

And that’s perfectly alright.