WHO MADE GOD?
(MARCH 24, 2002)
This question, "who made God?" came up in a conversation I was having with a contractor friend concerning religion. His daughter asked him the question and he was having a very difficult time in giving her the correct answer. This question is legitimate if asked by a young child, but if asked by someone who has contemplated the issue of the finite to the infinite it is not. I remember this was an issue in my college days, but then, it was sarcasm dressed up as deep thinking. Because the ridiculous theory of evolution is propounded as propounding profound profundities, the question "who made god?" is used to confound anyone that believes in an Eternal Creator. I was listening to a radio program the other morning "Thru The Bible with J Vernon Magee", and during his broadcast he quoted the philosopher Blaise Pascal, "In order to believe a specific science you must be able to understand it, but in order to understand God and His Holy Word you must believe first that He is God." I believe there are a lot of issues concerning eternity that are mysteries that will be unclouded when we meet our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ either by way of death or by the Rapture of The Church. When we are
face to face with our lord, all the mystery will be unveiled.
We have two great sources that prove the pre-existence of God the creator
of all matter. The first source is external, the universe itself, and the second is internal, the Infallible Word of God. The reason I am writing this paper is to try an explain in very simple terms the answer to this question "who made God." I have been studying a book the past few weeks by an eighteenth century philologist "Adolf Diessman, Light From The Ancient East." ( Phil-
ology is the scientific study of human speech as the vehicle of literature that sheds light on cultural history.) In his book he made a comparative study of the difference between a letter and an epistle. As a linguist Deissman was interested in letters written by common people in the centuries before Christ, during the life of Christ, and several centuries after Christ's death, burial, and resurrection. The conclusion of his study simply stated is that the letters of the common people were personal and not intended to be read by anyone other than the addressee, whereas an epistle was more or less encyclical intended to be read by anyone that was interested, such as, the epistles of Paul written to the Ephesians, Galatians, Romans, Corinthians, etc.. ( More on the results of Diessman's findings will be considered under the heading of extra-canonical writings). I am not writing a letter or an epistle, just a paper intended for my family, especially my grandchildren, and friends.
Volumes have been written on the subject of Christian evidence for the purpose of supporting the word of God, that is, attempting to verify its value and truthfulness. Many also have been written attempting the opposite to prove the Bible is just literature and hardly inspired by an Infinite, Omnis-
cient, Omnipresent God, Creator of this vast universe. I am not able nor am I qualified to elaborate on the subject. I modestly admit that my training is very limited, however, I am qualified as a believer in our Lord Jesus Christ to present what has and is working for me.
With my purpose defined I can now go about the task of presenting my method. I will answer the question, "who made God," with a twofold solut-
on. I. The external evidences, and 2. internal evidences (the Word of God).
THE EXTERNAL EVIDENCES:
a.) The human body: If all I had was to be able to examine the intricacies of the human anatomy that would be enough to wake up my faith and cause me to believe in a Master planner. How can anyone cause himself or herself to believe that they came to be simply by chance? I was present and helped deliver two of my daughters, and I must say, that is quite an incredible experience. After the ordeal for my wife and miracle by God was over, I could only thank God and praise Him. I can hardly imagine how an unbeliever can experience such a miracle and say, thank you force, or boy I sure am lucky.
b.) The flowers and the trees: As we look at these wonders and watch them grow we simply take it for granted that this is the way things are. Not too many people even stop to consider what a complicated process is taking place in the growth of the flowers and trees. Some of us have planted flowers, vegetables and even fruit trees, to see the seeds we planted grow to maturity, and if we watch with physical eye carefully we have to be amazed. For anyone that has taken Biology in High School, I find it very difficult to believe that after dissecting a frog or studying the different parts of a flower they could say this is just a pro-cess of evolution. I took Biology in college from the director of the Biology department at UCLA and after many discussions during and after class he finally admitted to me that he was an Evolution Theist. By saying he was an Evolution Theist he was saying that what he believed was that God used evolution as a means to the end of the creation process. He couldn't quite bring himself to say that it was the Lord Jesus Christ creating the heavens and the earth. As long as we re-fered to God in creation he was comfortable. God is used by the liber-als in a generic sense as the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. This Biology professor enjoyed discussing with me the universal-ity of god, associating him with all the other gods on Mars Hill (Acts 17:22,23). As soon as I would mention Jesus Christ He would become very hostile rant and rave about how Christ was the illegitimate son of Mary etc. etc. etc. Being a natural man (unbeliever) he couldn't bring himself to be humble enough to admit he needed this Christ in order to understand the wonderful works of God. He claimed to believe in God but not Christ. This is impossible according to the Apostle John "Who ever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also (1 John 2:23).
c.) The animal kingdom: I have very little to say here on this subject be-cause biologically we have similar evidence. A point I enjoy making about the animal kingdom is how utterly silly some people are about their silly animals. They sometimes refer to man in the same family as the animals. We human beings are not part of the animal kingdom for we have dominion over the animals, in Genesis 2:19,20, we read, "And out of the ground the Lord formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. And the man gave names to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him." Now doesn't logic prevail? Man is from the beginning a rational, logical, accountable being, whereas the animals need a keeper. Again in Genesis 1:20-26, "Then God said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens." And God created the great whales, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind"; and it was good. And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good. Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping that creeps on the earth." Now if man and beast were of the same family what strange words come from the mouth of God? Notice also the plural "us" which can only be that in-cluded in creation was the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I believe God makes a very clear and sound distinction between the animals and man, however, I have seen what supposedly were members of the human race that was very difficult to make such a clear distinction, especially in the part about the creeping things that creep upon the earth.
d.) A Jewish historian Josephus 103 A.D.: Concerning Jesus, "Now there rose about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call Him a man; for He was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with gladness. He carried away with Him many of the Jews and also many of the Greeks. He was the Christ. And after Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men among us, had condemned Him to the cross, His first adherents did not forsake Him. For He appeared to them alive again the third day; the divine prophets having foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning Him. And the tribe of those called Christians, after Him, is not extinct to this day." Concerning John the Baptist, "Now some of the Jews thought the destruction of Herod's army came from God, and that very justly, as a punishment of what he did against John (Herod, at the request of Sal-ome, had John the Baptist beheaded, she then presented it to her mother on a silver platter), who was called the Baptist; for Herod slew him, who was a good man and commanded the Jews to exercise virtue, both as to righteousness towards one another, and piety towards God, and so to come to baptism; for that the washing (with water) would be acceptable to Him, if they if they made use of it, not in order to the putting away (or the remission) of some sins (only), but for the purification of the body: supposing still that the soul was thoroughly purified beforehand by righteousness. Now when (many) others came in crowds about him, for they were greatly moved (or pleased) by hearing his words, Herod, who feared lest the great influence John had over the people might put it into his power and inclination to raise a rebellion (for they seemed ready to do anything he should advise), thought it best, by putting him to death, to prevent any mischief he might cause, and not bring himself into any difficulties, by sparing a man who might make him repent of it when it should be too late. Accordingly he was sent a prisoner , out of Herod's suspicious temper, to Machaerus, the castle I before mentioned, and was there put to death. Now the Jews had an opinion that the destruction of this army was sent as a punishment upon Herod, and a mark of God's displeasure to him." Concerning the Fall of Jerusalem 70 A.D. , Josephus, who went through the war himself from beginning to end, at first as govenor of galilee and general of the Jewish army, then as a prisoner of Vespasian, finally as a companion of Titus and mediator between the Romans and the Jews, recognized in this tragic event a divine judgment and admitted of his degenerate countrymen, to whom otherwise he was sincerely attached: "I will not hesitate to say what gives me pain: I believe that, had the Romans delayed their punishment of these villains, the city would have been swallowed up by the earth, or overwhelmed with a flood, or, like Sodom, consumed with fire from heaven. For the generation, which was in, it was far more ungodly than the men on whom those punishments had in former times fallen. By their madness the whole nation came to be ruined."(HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIN CHURCH BY PHILIP SCHAFF OCT.1883) The use of the writings of the Jewish historian is to show that Christ was indeed an historical person, much to the chagrin of the unbelieving critics. I agree with the Apostle John in the Scrip-ture quoted above that to believe in the Father one must believe on the Son. The Son was present when the world was created, also proved by the Genesis Scripture above. More will be covered under the heading of internal evidences.
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