Who Created G-d?

Question:

I've often heard the argument that there must be a G-d, because creation is so well designed there must be a designer. For example, the human brain is so complex, it must have a creator, so G-d must exist. That makes sense, but by using the same logic I can ask the question: Who created G-d?

Answer:

Your question can be answered by following a few logical steps.

Before creation, there was nothing but G-d. Nothing. When we say that G-d is the Creator, we don't just mean He created solid objects, like planets, trees and aardvarks. We mean He created everything. Any thing you can think of, every single existence on every plain and in every dimension, was once not, and G-d made it be.

That means that even concepts were created by G-d. G-d not only created the concrete universe, made up of gases, solids and liquids; He also created all of the abstract realities such as love, goodness, purpose and logic. These concepts did not exist before He created them.

One concept G-d introduced is the very concept of creation. G-d came up with the idea that you can have nothing, and make something out of it. The very notion that something has a beginning, a point at which it comes into existence, that notion itself was created by G-d. The concept didn't exist before. Just like there were no trees before G-d created the first tree, so too there were no beginnings before G-d created the first beginning.

So your question is based on a false premise. You can't ask, "Who created G-d?", because the whole concept of creating was G-d's idea in the first place. There was no such thing as creation before G-d came up with it. Just as it is obvious that the person who made the first cartoon was not himself a cartoon, so too G-d who invented the concept of creation is not Himself a creation.

G-d, the Creator, never changes. He is always the same; He always was and always will be. Humans, created beings that we are, do not remain the same. We once were not, were brought into being, and will one day be no longer. And that is why humans are so special. Because as creations, we--you and I--have the power to change. That's the gift of being human.