Recently one of my friend asked me this question. Who created God? So I answered him. However there are many who ask this question. So I will put my answer here where many can read it…

Short answer: Nobody.

Long answer: To answer this question we need to go a little bit deeper and ask the question, why do you ask that who created God? Why there is a need for God to be created. Why do we find it hard to believe that God can be eternal. It is because that’s how this universe works. It is because of the law of cause and effect. For every effect there is a cause. For example, If I throw a stone into a lake, it creates waves in the water. The waves are created because the stone disturbs the stillness of water in the lake. The waves doesn’t get created on its own. And the whole universe operates on this rule. That’s why we ask who created God.

However, we forget that the God who created the whole universe. And the law of cause and effect describes one fundamental property of this universe. But we forget that it is God who created the universe. And if you ask the question who created God, because everything around you needs to have a cause, then what you are asking is like trying to figure out how many doors the architect has who designed the buildings. Because surely, all of the buildings he has designed has doors. He himself must also have some… That’s the train of thinking that leads to this question… So without making this longer than it needs to be I’ll leave you with that thought.

Update:

When I first wrote this post I didn’t think about it this way but just a few days back a thought came to my mind. The doors are necessary for going in and out of the building. They are there because they are essential not because of the personality of the architect. Not because how he himself is. If it were not so, then you would find some buildings with doors and some buildings without doors in the world. Other things such as the shape of the door can be of personal preference of the architect. But the door must be there.

In the same way in our universe the causality is very fundamental or essential. I think it would fall in the same category as time. Because without causality time wouldn’t progress(now a time that doesn’t progress isn’t time at all. Is it?). Without time causality wouldn’t exist. Both are dependent on each other. Causality also kind of acts as a door for new things to enter this world(or happen in this world). So it is kind of essential for this universe. It does not show the personality of God. It doesn’t show how he himself is. God reveals himself to the creation somewhere else. He reveals himself in human beings.