Spirit of Islam November 2017

9 Spirit of Islam Issue 59 November 2017 WHO CREATED GOD? Reasons to Believe God is the uncaused Being that caused everything else to come into existence. God is the uncreated Creator who created the universe and everything in it. A COMMON argument from sceptics and atheists is that if all things need a cause, then God must also need a cause. They question, “Who made God? Something does not come from nothing, so if God is a “something”, then He must have a cause?” Another form of the argument is: “If we believe that the universe was created by God—a Creator—then we must believe that God also has a Creator. In this way there will be an endless series of Creators. Hence, isn’t it better to believe that this universe came about without a Creator?” Such questions are inherently flawed because God, by definition, is not in the category of things that are created or caused. God is uncaused and uncreated—He simply exists. How do we know this? We know that from nothing, nothing comes. So, if there were ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence, then nothing would have ever come into existence. But things do exist. Therefore, since there could never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been in existence. That ever-existing thing is what we call God. God is the uncaused Being that caused everything else to come into existence. God is the uncreated Creator who created the universe and everything in it. People who reject God, however, continue to acknowledge and appreciate the universe we live in. If we can accept that the universe came about without a Creator—which in any case is not rational—then, what is the problem with accepting such a Creator (God) without a creator? If we are ready to accept and acknowledge creation or the universe without a creator, then why can we not accept a God without a creator? Direct observational evidence for a Creator is impossible like for many other scientific facts. It is neither with those who believe in a God nor with those who deny God. However, indirect evidence of God ubiquitous in nature and the universe is a valid reason and argument for belief in God. Some of those evidences are presented briefly here below.