elementary child asked "who created God"

God isn't a created being. He is infinite, and creation would suggest a finite nature.

In the beginning was a long time ago, We cannot Know who God's Daddy or Mommy is because the bible doesn't tell us, But what is important is that we know Jesus loves us very much and one day we will get to live in heaven with Him and we can ask Him then :]

TuxAme said:

God isn't a created being. He is infinite, and creation would suggest a finite nature.

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i don't know what grade level. the child is. If, say, a bright 4th or 5th grader, maybe younger, this may all make sense...

You could start with telling the child that no scientist can really tell us where the universe and its rules, like gravity, or even time, came from. We know of them in the NATURAL realm. What is not of the natural realm is SUPERNATURAL. It seems the natural realm has a supernatural cause since we can find no natural cause for it.

Now, in the natural realm things have a beginning and an end. That is not at all necessarily so in the supernatural realm. It is endless. It has different rules, rules we have a hard time even imagining. Ask the child to think of how hard it would be for someone raised on a remote, primitive island, to imagine computers, highways, smart phones. It is much harder for us, who live on this remote little planet of earth, to comprehend what we presently cannot see in the eternal, everlasting, realm.

Also, ask, "Can something come from nothing?" When you get "No" say, "Well, if there is something, that means there always had to be something or Someone, because nothing can't make anything. Also ask if a mindless "something" could make rules and show intelligence, design and order such as we see in science and all around us.

Even in this realm we see that can't happen. Therefore we can conclude that the design and order we see around us has an intelligent cause. That Intelligent Cause, that has always existed, is what people call the Creator.

christine40 said:

am curious how other Christians would respond
as could tell my child did not understand my answer




(which I'll wait to say)

thanks in advance for any responses!

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God is eternally self-existent.
He was not created by anyone, nor did He create Himself.
He has always existed.

christine40 said:

am curious how other Christians would respond
as could tell my child did not understand my answer




(which I'll wait to say)

thanks in advance for any responses!

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I think what God told Moses to tell the Israelites should suffice: God is "I AM" whether past tense, present tense, future tense. He exists without the universe and the universe existence depends completely on Him.

• Exodus 3:14
• Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’

Before time and the universe ever came into being God not only existed but was existence Himself, life Himself, love Himself, Truth Himself, wisdom Himself, and He still IS now and Forever. So when we say I think therefore "I am", we mean from birth to death but when God says "I AM" He means I was, I AM always in the present moment, and I will always be, even after time is no more.
In Christ, Patrick

christine40 said:

thanks for replies, everyone!

told our 10 yr old that I was requesting help and she was glad as she wants to understand
asked if anyone was talking about God at school today but no; she just was wondering on her own

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Hi Christine,
Sounds like she's a pretty deep thinker and you may just be at the beginning of more deep questions to come. Perhaps God was simply having one of those 'have you ever wondered about Me' conversations with her. I've had a few of those myself and still do. The wonder of God is a wonderful thing and it's a beautiful thing to be walking in God's light!

God is very different than us. He has always been there.

If God needs a creator, then who created the entity who created God? And who created the entity who created the one who created God. I could go on but you get the point.