Questions Campers Ask Part 14- How does God have no beginning?

Q: How does God have no beginning?
A: Have you ever wondered how a flower has no legs? Probably not! Does every living thing NEED to have legs? No, people, birds, bugs and animals have legs, but not plants or fish! Imagine a box with a label on it saying people, birds, bugs, and animals. Plants and fish are outside that box, so they don’t have legs.

How does God have no beginning? Does every living thing have a beginning? No, actually! Only created things have beginnings, and since God does not fit into that ‘box’, He does not have a beginning.

It’s hard to imagine anything that was not created and does not have a beginning, but the Bible says God exists outside the box of time-He has always been and always will be. That’s impossible for us to wrap our minds around now, but someday in heaven, we will be able to.

Psalm 90:2 is my favorite verse about God not having a beginning: “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.” The reason this is such a struggle for our brains to understand is because we are all born with the knowledge that everything had a cause. If a ball rolls into your bedroom, something or someone caused it to roll there. Someone caused the cookies in your kitchen to appear there, someone caused the mess in your bedroom, and Someone caused the world into existence. So what about God? What caused His existence? If you think about it, you’ll realize that there must be an uncaused cause that started all the causes. Something uncaused had to cause the first cause. That ‘something’ is actually a ‘Someone’-God.

“’I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end,’ says the Lord who was, and who is, and who is to come, the Almighty.” (Revelation 1:8)