If God made everything, who made God?
✓Fact-checked & reviewed for Nicene orthodoxyHow we review →No one made God, and on the argument actually being made, nothing needs to. The worry only bites if the claim is that everything has a cause - in which case God would need one too.
But it rests on a small misunderstanding of what is actually being claimed. The argument for God from the universe's beginning never says everything has a cause. It says something narrower and more careful: whatever begins to exist has a cause. Things don't simply pop into being out of nothing; they come from something. The universe, the evidence suggests, began to exist, so it needs a cause beyond itself. God, by definition, did not begin to exist. He is eternal, without beginning. So he is not an arbitrary exception to the rule; he simply falls outside a rule that was only ever about things that begin.
Asking what made God is a bit like asking what the bachelor's wife is doing tonight. The question presupposes something the case has already ruled out. You are welcome to ask instead whether an uncaused, eternal being is coherent, or whether the universe might itself be eternal, and those are good questions worth pursuing. But once the claim is stated precisely, who made God stops being the knockdown it first appears to be. Whatever is the ultimate explanation of everything must, by its nature, be something that did not need to be made.