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Originally Posted by 3GirlsRUs
Oh, I hope you get some answers because my 6-year-old dd ALWAYS asks this question whenever I say something about how God created everything...ugh.  |
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Originally Posted by mrsfrazier
Oh no....I have a four week old and I am wondering what in the world I will say someday if he asks me this!  |
In short my answer would be somethink like this ---> first I give the easiest answer, then I'd give a more "advanced" answer.
1. Child: Mom/Dad, who created God?
Parent: My child. God wasn't created. He is did not have a beginning and he does not have and end.
Child: How do we know?
Parent: He alone told us. But he also told us that once day we will join him in heaven and also will be happy there forever. You and me and our family and all the world. But only if they choose to go there. We can talk about it of you want.
Child: 
2. Child: Mom/Dad, who created God?
Parent:My child, look. God created everything. You also came once into being. Do you remember our talk about it?
Child: I do.
Parent: You see, not only you but also I was born one day, my parents were born some day. Everyone of us had a beginning some day. We began to exist. This is so in everything you look around. Look - this table, this food, this book - everything once came into being - by a carpenter, farmer or an author. Ok?
Child: Hmm.
Parent: From this we know that everything that once began to exist needed something/somebody to create it. Does that make sense?
Child: Yes, yes, but what about God? Who created him?
Parent: We just saw that everything that began to exist needs something to create it. God existed from all the eternity. That's why he didn't need anything/anyone to create him. It is not easy to comprehend but at the same time it makes a lot of sense.
Child: Hmm.. interesting... but wait.. why couldn't he also had a beginning and therefore a cause?
Parent: Good question. Look. If you see a chain of dominoes falling, you know that each one that fell, was caused to fall by the previous one. Ok?
Child: 
(scratching head...)
Sure!
Parent: But you know that it had to have a beginning. You know that there was one domino at the very beginning that made all the others fall. That first domino is God.
Child: Hey, I or anyone or the wind could made the first domino fall!
Parent: That is only an analogy, you see. Each of the dominos represent you, me, my parent, my grand-grand parents, winds, heat, hurricanes, every single cause in the universe. These dominos represent real things. But when you see the chain falling you know there has to be one domino at the beginning that was not moved by a previous one!
Child: That's interesting. I'm going to tell that to my schoolmates that asked me this question!
3.If the debate needs to go on, look at:
THIS article on Category Fallacy by JP Moreland.
THIS Peter Kreeft's article - andscroll down to the 2nd point - that is "2. The Argument from Efficient Causality"
How do you respond to your children to "Who created God?" question
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