If God Created The Universe, Then Who Created God?

This is a popular question that usually arises when having some type of religious or philosophical discussion with people. There are a number of different ways people approach this question, but today I thought about an interesting perspective so I figured I would share it.

Some people say that in order for us to be here right now as people and in order for the universe to exist there had to be some type of creator. And if in fact there was a creator who created everything in the universe, he too would have to have been created. Because of the creator himself having to be created many people will say this nullifies the argument of him being able to create the universe.

The Video Game Analogy

I don't necessarily agree with this line of thinking. Take this example. Say I were to create a video game that was fairly realistic and had characters with pretty good AI (artificial intelligence). It would be pretty easy for me being the creator of the video game to choose to allow characters a certain amount of thinking and reasoning. I could choose to allow them to only know about things that exist within the algorithm or physics of the game. I could choose to allow them to know much less than what is in the real world by only giving them 10% of these physics in the game. Even though these more advanced physics exist in my world, the characters of the game with their intelligence capabilities only use 10% of physics/truth to think, reason and progress.

If I could create a video game that limits understanding could not God do the same? And if I could create a video game that uses a different or lesser set of rules/laws/physics wouldn't it be impossible for these game characters to know certain things I didn't want them to know? Would I need to be created to create a video game that uses these laws and would I be bound by these laws I created? Hell no! Why you ask? I can create my own universes all day long and not be subject to the laws of my own creations. This same logic can be applied to God and our universe.

I know, I know, everyone will be telling me but how do you prove that we are in a video game simulation? I am not trying to and can not prove it. I am simply supplying some food for thought. It is totally rational that we could be in some type of "simulation" or "video game" and we are following a certain given set of rules that limit us in one way or another. Just because we can only go so far in this world, doesn't mean somebody else can't.

Conclusion

I really do think that thinking of space in terms of a video game makes things much more clear. The video game is it's own little world of cool things going on, but there is also so much more out there!

I think this example of a video game simulation gives strong merit to God not having to be created for our "creation based" thinking and universe to exist. I really do find it hard to believe that since this universe was created God had to be created. That doesn't make sense to me at all and this is one of the reasons why.