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Selected passages from Chapter 1.
“Who made God?”
The question was posed in the back of an old truck that carried a class of eight-year-old children home from a field trip. The highlight of the day was a visit to an agricultural research farm where we’d witnessed the birth of a calf. We were seated on slats of wood evenly laid across the width of the vehicle. The sun had already gone down, and there was not much to see out of the side of the truck, so many of the children looked up at the stars on what was a beautiful, cloudless night.
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That’s when Wes dropped the question: “Who made God?”
“What do you mean ‘who made God’?” Mike finally responded.
“Who made God? If God made all of us and all the plants and the animals and the sun and the moon and the stars and the space creatures, if God made the calf that we saw being born today, then who made God?” Wes asked again.
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“I think,” I said, quietly. “I think that God was made by another God who was before our God.”
“That’s it,” said Bob. “I think you are right.”
We all nodded our heads sagely, even Wes, realizing that we had just made a profound, earth-shaking discovery. It was the only answer that made sense, until a few seconds later when we all looked at each other and laughed as we shouted in unison, “But who made the God before our God?”
I’ve been searching for the answer to that question ever since.
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