Who made God?

As a Christian, whether one subscribes to creationism or evolution, ultimately we believe that God created the universe. This attestation to a skeptic is usually followed by the standard "who made God?" Many Christians have simple answers to this question, but I have never been one to be satisfied by simple answers.

This is partially answered when we understand what time is. If you study time dilation in relation to the space-time continuum, we start to see that time is a component in and of itself. If you take two identical watches that tick at exactly the same time and put one into space and one on earth, when you bring the two watches back together they will have different times. Essentially this is evidence that time is not only real but dependent on different variables. Time is a force of itself.

Therefore in the Christian world view, time itself was created by God. Once this is established and we semi-understand that time is not eternal, the phrase "I am the beginning and the end," starts bring a whole new understanding. The words "beginning" and "end" deal with time measurements. God existed before and after time and He created time, therefore He is not limited by the concepts of time.

As opposed to all the things in our universe that have a cause, God is uncaused and is the cause. In the philosophy of the "first mover," God would be the first mover. Unlike all other things in our universe, God does not require a creator as He is separate from His creation and therefore does not follow the same laws that apply to it. This is much the same as a programmer who is not bound by the parameters of the program he creates. Everything in the program is bound by the rules established by the programmer, but the programmer is not in any way restricted by the program.

So while the simple answer to the skeptics question is "no one," I hope I have explained this answer a little better.