Who Made God? A basic principle of physics is the law of
conservation of matter. That has me wondering: If God created
the world, then where did God come from? The Aish Rabbi Replies:
Maimonides deals with this question at length. He answers that
God is beyond our comprehension, and it is absurd to apply our
realm of experience to His. Therefore it is inappropriate to
discuss God in terms of past, future or being created, etc. To
explain: Everything that is finite has to have been created, but
God is infinite and therefore He did not have to be created.
Everything in the physical world had a beginning at some point
in the past. If you cut down a tree we can see how old it is by
counting rings. As a person ages, i.e. he is now 20 years old,
that means he had to be one year old at some time. Since
everything in this world gets older, it means that everything
was created at some point. How was it created? There are only
two options: Either it made itself, or it was made by something
else. Now, it couldn't make i