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From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: My professor has assigned our class to collectively answer the question: If God is the Creator, who created God? Our research must include findings from ancient and modern thinkers, and surprisingly, we can use Biblical text and other religious writings. But the question is still mind-bending. I don’t think there’s a good answer to this. A creator can’t be the created, can it? – C.M.

A: No one made God. He is self-existent. “In the beginning God” are the words that build the cornerstone of all existence. Without God, there would have been no beginning and no continuing. God was the creating power and the cohesive force that brought cosmos out of chaos. By divine fiat, He brought form out of shapelessness, order out of disorder, and light out of darkness. Scientists cannot see God in a test tube or a telescope. God is God, and the mind of man is too small!

Blaise Pascal, the 17th-century French physicist, said, “A unit joined to infinity adds nothing to it any more than one foot added to an infinite length. The finite is swallowed up by the infinite and becomes pure zero. So are our minds before God.”

As we seek this great God who was, and is, and is to come (see Revelation 4:8), our failure to comprehend God fully should not strike us as strange. We live surrounded by mysteries we cannot explain – mysteries far simpler. Who can explain why objects are always attracted to the center of the Earth? Newton formulated the law of gravity, but he couldn’t explain it. God is far more complex than some of the earthly phenomena we can’t understand, but He has also made His gift of salvation easy for people to comprehend: Turn from your sin, repent, and receive God’s forgiveness, and you shall have eternal life in Heaven with Jesus Christ, who died for your sin because of His great love for you.

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(This column is based on the words and writings of the late Rev. Billy Graham.)

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