Who Created God?
Where did God come from? Who created Him? What’s His origin? Who is the mastermind behind Him?
Have you ever asked that question or has someone asked you? It’s a question most people ask at one time or another.
Here’s the answer. In Exodus 6:3, God told Moses, “I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob by the name of God Almighty, but by my name, LORD, (JEHOVAH) I did not make Myself known to them.”
The answer to the question about where God came from is to understand that God is self-existent.
God told Moses that His name is Jehovah, which in the Hebrew language means self-existent One or “the existing One.”
God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.”
What does that mean?
Scholar Charles Ryrie explains, “It is a name of the relationship between the true God and His people and when used, emphasizes God’s holiness, hatred of sin, and love of sinners.” 1
In other words, God didn’t “come from.” He IS.
God is a self-existing God who is holy, hates sin, and loves us. We won’t fully comprehend God until we get to heaven and probably won’t even then. In the meantime, we can lift our hands and praise Him.
Lord God, JEHOVAH, we praise You and thank You that You love us and have provided salvation for us.
The Apostle John confirms God’s self-existing nature in John 1:1-2 by writing, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.” To learn more, watch Debbie’s teaching on John 1 HERE or listen to it HERE.
1 Charles Caldwell Ryrie, Ryrie Study Bible: New American Standard Bible, 1995 Update (Chicago: Moody Press, 2008), 2057.
