Who Created God? 🤔

Who created God? Scientists say that every effect must have a cause. Now, that's fine until you get back to the beginning, the origin of the universe itself. >> [music] >> So, what caused that? This isn't just a problem for science, it's a challenge for every believing person. If your faith is just based on because I believe, it's vulnerable to intellectual challenge like who created God? If everything has a cause, then what caused the first cause? What caused God? >> [music] >> Belief is not a with intellect or science. It's the natural and inescapable [music] continuum of science. The Rambam writes, "The foundation of all foundations, the pillar of all wisdom, is to know that there exists a first existent, not to believe, to know." How can you [music] know that? The answer is we need to make a paradigm shift about the way we think about existence itself. There are things that come into existence, physical entities which are bound by time and space, and these must have causes. But, there are also things that do not come into being, like 2 + 2 = 4. 2 + 2 didn't suddenly become 4 at some specific moment in time. It's a truth that simply is and always was. It neither starts nor ends. Now, this distinction is the key. The error lies in assuming that everything is like a physical object, something that must be brought into existence. But, not all realities are like that. God is not an existence within the system of cause and effect. He is, in a way, the ultimate intellectual reality, [music] which neither begins nor ends. Belief in God is not a retreat from intellect. It is the ultimate honest culmination of intellect. To recognize that behind all that begins, there must be that which never began. Like 2 + 2 = 4.