I recently came across a YouTube video where someone from the audience asked a renowned spiritual leader one of humanity’s oldest and most profound questions: Does God exist?
The spiritual leader’s answer was a firm yes. His reasoning was that the very existence of the universe—the countless stars, the earth, life itself—is proof enough of a Creator. After all, if something exists, it must have been created. And if there is creation, there must be a Creator. Logical. He concluded that God is that Creator—the one who made everything, including the universe itself.
The audience seemed deeply impressed, nodding in agreement as he went on to describe further aspects of this divine being—such as the nature and even the “gender” of God.
“Everything needs a creator!” he said. It sounded so simple, so intuitive. It aligns perfectly with our everyday experience—everything we see, build, or make has a cause behind it.
But that statement stirred an even deeper question in my mind.
If everything needs a creator, then who created God?
If we say that someone—or something—created God, then who created that creator? And who created that one? This logic leads us into an endless loop—a never-ending chain of creators. Clearly, there’s a problem with the principle that “everything needs a creator.”
Intrigued, I explored more videos and found a philosopher addressing this very dilemma. His argument was that the chain stops with God, because God is uncreated—eternal, without beginning or end. Everything else is created, but God simply is.
It’s a fascinating idea—but not entirely satisfying. If God can be uncreated, why can’t the universe itself be uncreated?
After listening to countless perspectives, I’ve come to one possible conclusion:
something must either be uncreated (existing forever), or created out of nothing—perhaps even without a reason. Otherwise, we’re stuck in an infinite regress of creators.
It could be God, eternal and self-existent—the source of all creation.
It could be the universe itself—either eternal or arising spontaneously out of nothing.
And for those who believe that science has already explained it all through the Big Bang Theory, that’s not entirely accurate. The Big Bang describes how the universe evolved from its earliest state—it doesn’t explain why or how it came into existence in the first place. That mystery still remains.
Perhaps there’s something else altogether—some unknown reality that gave rise to both God and the universe.
No one really knows.
I doubt this puzzle will be solved anytime soon. But I remain deeply curious.
If anyone has an answer—or even a new way to think about it—I’d love to hear it.
