One of the goals of Apologetics is to deal with the objections that people have regarding the existence of God. Over the next several weeks, we will be listing some of these objections and the arguments that address each one. The below article responds to the challenge that God is created or “Who made God?”
Finite Causes for Finite Beings. The cosmological argument reasons from a finite effect to an infinite Cause (God). This conclusion is challenged by those who insist that all one needs to account for a finite effect is a finite cause. Positing an infinite Cause is metaphysical overkill.
However, every finite being or effect is limited, and every limited being is only adequately explained if it were caused by some Being that is not limited. The first Cause is the unlimited limiter of every limited thing. If this Cause were limited (i.e., caused), it would need a cause beyond itself by which to ground its limited existence. Inescapably, every limited being is caused. But Pure Actuality, or Existence as such, is unlimited. And the Actuality that provides the limits for everything else that is actualized must itself be unlimited in its existence. The first Cause must be uncaused, and an Uncaused Cause must be the unlimited or infinite Cause of everything else.
Geisler, N. L. (1999). In Baker encyclopedia of Christian apologetics (p. 288). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.