最近痴迷上了interfaith dailogue  （就是讲犹太教，基督教，伊斯兰教之间的交流的） 这堂课，发现西方的宗教是极其深刻的，开始研究各教教义，也冒出了各种怪异的问题，第一个问题就是，既然上帝创造的世界，那谁创造了上帝呢？于是发邮件给身边不同信仰的朋友，得到各种回答，现记录如下。

我发出的邮件：

Hi XXX，you know I am taking interfaith dialogue this semester (it's the class which goes to Israel).... so I start learning about Christianity, Islam and Jewdiasm. Then a strange question poped up in my mind: :if God creates the universe, who creates God? Does that mean God creates itself?
Do you have any thoughts on this??

1. 对宗教不太感冒的A

the first anwser that comes to my mind is, well, the people, they needed something to believe in... or we all live in a dream, or...
ahah have a nice day!

2. 在基督教背景长大但自己不信教的B

That’s actually one of the major questions skeptics ask.. You can argue that God has no beginning or ending (he is not limited in time because before he created the universe there wasn’t even a notion of time, God created time and thus created limitedness. Hence the universe has a beginning and ending, but God hasn’t) And thus, if God doesn’t have a beginning and ending, there was no creation necessary, so nobody needed to create god in order to exist. We are living in his world (the universe), but he doesn’t, he lives somewhere beyond where there is no time limitation and thus no beginnings and ends…
Does that make a little bit sense? ;)

3.虔诚的基督教徒 C

This question often pops up in mind even to newly born Christians. It poped into my mind when i was a teenager. But as i grew up in the Christian faith, i came to distinguish the Universe from God. From the bible, it is revealed that GOD created the Universe. None created Him because he was the universe at the same time. He existed, exits and will exist forever.He is everything and everywhere. Look at John, Chapter1:1-28 if you have a christian bible.
In conclusion, christians believe more in than they question God. But it takes time to believe. I will be happy to answer whatever concern you may have or refer you to more experienced persons when i can't.
Have a good day.

4.虔诚的天主教徒 D

上帝是唯一自由永有的，他的性質就是永恆的，沒有開始沒有結束。而所有受造物都是又開始的。

5.生长在以色列但是不信教的犹太朋友 E

You're question is not an easy one. There are many answers for sure, differing between religions and times in History.

In the Greek tradition of Philosophy, up until the Philosophers of Europe, God was described or even defined, as the prime reason, the reason of reasons. This is how his existence is proved, according to them: there must be a first reason to all that there is, and if it has a reason so this one would be the first. This reason is the reason of itself, it creates itself, and this is God.

Some would say that God is above "reason and outcome" or time and space. That is another solution. looking for reasons in time is human, and God is outside of this, bigger than this. He is infinite also in this aspect, not limited by attributes of human logic or perception.

But, then again, some people would see this as a flaw in the theory. Richard Dawkins, for instance, a big promoter of Atheist views nowadays, claims that this solution of God being the prime reason is not solving anything. Just like you said. Saying that the world just exists without any reason, and saying that it was created by god who exists by himself with no reason - these two are quite the same. The question why remains unanswered. we always get to a dead end, where we have to say "this is unexplainable". This is one of his points against religion and the existence of God.

I guess many words were written about this subject along history. you can probably find many different views and answers to this question.

目前还没有穆斯林的回答，再接再厉！恩

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6. 恩，有朋友建议我加入佛教徒的回答，很不错的建议，而且我真的跟在西藏修行的兔子讨论了这个问题的。兔子的大意是这种看法处在不同修行阶段的人看法是迥然不同的，没有对错之分。而且密宗也不太赞成这种不亲身修行而只是理智思考的方式，要先通过每天的修行消除身上的业，对世界的看法就会改变。总是，一定要亲身实践。