Who Gave God the Power to be God?

Question: Who gave God the power to be God?

Answer: Great question! The Bible teaches that God has always existed, not only for an eternity into the future but for an eternity into the past. No one created God, or gave God power, or had to get God going - because God has always existed. For us as human beings that truth is a little beyond our grasp. Because we live in a world where everything has a beginning and an ending, it's hard for us to conceive of a God who is without beginning and without ending. But God is not limited by our understanding, and that's exactly the kind of God He is. It's always been comforting to me that God is greater than I can conceive. If I could totally figure God out He wouldn't really be God.

Then Job replied to the Lord, "I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted. You asked, 'Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?' Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
(Job 42:1-3)

For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation.
(Colossians 1:13-22)

Ian