Who made god?

[mumtoallgirls]

My dd aged 4 asked me this question today and wrapped me up in yet more questions with my 'he just is' explanation. Anyone have any ideas how i can explain this one? would be very appreciative.
thanks

I think many people have struggled with that one, tbh!

What about

what an interesting question! What do YOU think?

My answer would be, people made god.

But I suspect that's not the answer you were looking for

Grimma. I am the same.

Simple - noone made God. He is supernatural and has always existed - you could then get onto a nice discussion of the concept of infinity!

people

ah, grimma said it already

God is like a ring (or hoola hoop) No start, no end. He always was and always will be. Time is a human thing but God doesn't need time. He is everlasting.

I second shallishanti - I would mirror the question back: "Who do you think made God?" At least it will encourage her to come to her own decisions.

Thanks, i think i'll ask her what she thinks and go from there.....

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_argument

" great question...want some sweets?"

would be my answer

Did you ask her "Which god?"...???

Another vote for 'people did' - and you could explain why and how people need to make up gods as well, which will do your DC a power of good and inoculate them against superstition for the future.

I don't think a 4 year old can understand why people need gods. I would tend to say 'I don't know'. The alternative first cause is that the Big Bang began not only the universe, but time itself. Which probably isn't in any to explain or comprehend.

If I were asked this question I'd answer honestly and say I don't know. I'd also say that no one knows who made God because no one knows for sure if there is such a thing as God and God is a thing that some people believe in and some people don't.

I think it's quite dangerous to speak to children about God as if it is a given that there is such a thing as God.

The concept of God should, IMHO, always be presented to children as something that they can exercise a rational choice to believe in or not.

God made God made God made God.

I think it's good for children to be comfortable with paradoxes at an early age.

I suppose it depends whether you believe in God.

If you do - meltedchocolate's
If you don't - either Grimma or Shallishanti's. But, he may not like Grimma's if he believes in God!

"Humanity" or "people" best answer! "Which god" good as an alternative, fr discussing all the various deities people have felt the need to come up with over the centuries and to put the current, most popular one in context. (He's the one who's consistently getting the highest ratings, like the Coronation Street of gods.)

Unless you know for certain, and have proof, I would watch what you say! What's wrong with "I don't know"?

What sort of parent are you if your lax discipline lets them ask such a terrible question>>? What do they teach dd at their faith school? Shocking decline in standards. Shocking.

1. he is creator, the One.

1. (The Self-Sufficient Master, Whom all creatures need, He neither eats nor drinks).

1. "He begets not, nor was He begotten;

1. "And there is none co-equal or comparable unto Him."

No-one made god - he's always been there.

There has to have been something always there or there would have been no life at all.
Even if god was just the first particle that ever existed, something must have set creation in motion