WHO CREATED GOD?: The Question of God's Origin, Eternity, and Existence

If God created everything, then who created God?It sounds like a simple question. Yet behind it lies one of the deepest challenges ever raised against belief in a Creator. If everything that exists needs a cause, why should God be exempt? If the universe requires an explanation, why should God not require one too?WHO CREATED GOD? takes this question seriously.Rather than dismissing the objection, Frederick Amakom examines the ideas behind it-cause and effect, creation, contingency, necessity, eternity, and the distinction between the Creator and His creation. The book asks whether everything that exists must have a creator, whether an infinite chain of causes is possible, and whether there must ultimately be a reality that does not depend on anything else for its existence.At the heart of the discussion is a crucial distinction: Whatever begins to exist requires a cause. But does something that never began to exist require a cause?The book explores the concept of an eternal and necessary God and considers whether describing God as uncreated is merely special pleading-or whether an uncreated, self-existent reality is actually necessary if anything else is to exist at all.The strongest objections are examined directly: - Is saying that God is eternal simply making an exception for God?- Who created the Creator?- Could the universe itself be the ultimate uncaused reality?- Could there be more than one eternal reality?- Does an uncaused cause necessarily have to be God?- Is God merely a convenient answer to a difficult question?The discussion then turns to the biblical testimony. From "In the beginning, God" to "I AM," from the Everlasting God to Christ's declaration, "Before Abraham was, I am," Scripture presents God not as another created thing within the universe, but as the eternal Creator.Ultimately, the question "Who created God?" forces us to confront a deeper question: Does ultimate reality itself require a creator-or must there be something that ultimately does not?Clear, accessible, and intellectually serious, WHO CREATED GOD? offers a philosophical and biblical examination of one of the most enduring objections to belief in God.