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Chapter 3 - Who Created God?

Before we properly see who created God, let's see a sentence from "Judas' Book" again:

"...All of them said, "We're strong enough." But their spirits weren't brave enough to stand before [him] – except Judas Iscariot. He was able to stand before him, but he couldn't look him in the eye, so he looked away.

Judas [said] to him, "I know who you are and where you've come from. You've come from the immortal realm of Barbelo, and I'm not worthy to utter the name of the one who's sent you."

Who or what is "Barbelo?" 

According to Gnosticism (which is a wide variety of Jewish and early Christian sects),

"Barbelo is the name given to the first entity to arise from God in the literature of the classic Gnostics. After God, she's the foremost inhabitant of the Pleroma, the Gnostic name for Heaven.

God doesn't "create" Barbelo per se; instead, she comes from him by some indirect means. For example, in some Gnostic texts, God's inexhaustible profusion of thought overflows, and a new being, Barbelo, emerges from that intellectual flood.

Elsewhere, it's said that Barbelo arose when God stared down into the primal waters and saw his luminous reflection, which then became a new being.

We don't know what the name "Barbelo" means, but it might be related to the Coptic verb berber, "to overflow" or "to boil over." That connection would be fitting in light of Barbelo having been born from the overflowing thought of God in some Gnostic scriptures.

In the Secret Book of John and other classic Gnostic texts, Barbelo is portrayed as the mother of Christ (who, in much early Christian literature including Gnostic literature, is thought of as a divine being who existed long before he was ever incarnated in human flesh through Mary. God the Father, Barbelo the Mother, and Christ the Son form a three-member divine family. The Gnostics thought of this as the divine model of which all earthly families are an imperfect, corrupted reflection.

If that heavenly family sounds a lot like the Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, that's probably no coincidence.

The word for "spirit" in Hebrew and other Semitic languages is feminine, so to the ears of people who spoke those languages, the name "Holy Spirit" would have almost automatically connoted a feminine being. This seems to be a conception that was actively cultivated in at least some early Christian circles. For example, the Jewish Christian Gospel of the Hebrews has Jesus refer to the Holy Spirit as his mother."

Now, it is clear that, according to the above account, 'Barbelo' represents 'the Holy Spirit", right? Of course, you would agree with me that from Bible knowledge, Christ came from a spiritual realm, not physical, He only came through Mary in order to possess the flesh of a man.

Judas (from Judas' book) said he wasn't worthy to call the name of the one who sent Him (Christ), which we know it was God, right? Or let's say the God who sent Christ. Now, the book of Judas clearly shows that only Judas (out of the twelve) really knew who Christ was, and only him was able to say where Christ came from, but have you forgotten when Jesus asked them almost this same question in the Bible?

In Matthew 16:15, "He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? 16, And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the (living God). 17, And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven."

Did you take note of, 'living God' from the passage?

Let's now see something in Daniel 6:26 about the so-called Old Testament God, which Judas' book clearly states as the God of the disciples, and not of Christ:

 "...I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the (living God), and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end."

If the God who created the earth from the beginning is not the God of the New Testament, who sent Christ (according to Judas' book), then which of the two Gods created Heaven?

Genesis (Old Testament) says in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Judas' book says Jesus came from the Father in heaven (which is of course in line with the Bible) but why is it that 'the Jesus in Judas' book' says their God is a different God, while His own God (which they would never know about) is a higher God? Or is it not the God He served and worship that He came to introduce properly to the disciples?

- Now, for the record -

Let me make this clear, just in case you might be wondering why I keep quoting "the book of Judas" and some others.

I absolutely, assuredly and certainly do not believe in the book of Judas. I vehemently and only believe in the BIBLE (Blessed, Information, Bringing Life Eternal), containing the 66 Books, which are enough to make me please the Almighty God, who made heaven and earth, and myself inclusive, and of course, the same God who sent Christ Jesus to set my soul free! Me quoting some other stuff doesn't mean I believe in them, am just kinda putting this before an argument, for a clearer understanding.

Who then created God?

If everything that we see had a beginning or had a cause for it's existence at all, then one would ask, shouldn't God have a beginning as well? And if He did, then someone would have created Him as well, and if someone did, who then created that someone, and on and on.

Now, the preacher says, "God created everything."

And I ask, "Who then created God?"

He says, "Listen, though everything had a beginning, but it's not the same with God, 'cause He had always been in existence before everything or anything began."

Someone gave three points to this, and I will be quoting these points one after the other while I explain:

1. "Someone or Something needs to be eternal, in order for anything or anyone to exist."

Alright, if everything truly needs a cause for it's existence, then the fact is that we (humans) couldn't have been created!

How do I mean? Let's take the God of the Bible as God1. If God1 was created, then God2 must have created Him, and if God2 was created by someone, then that someone would be God3. This would go on to an infinite number which of course was created by another. This is why I said nothing would have been created in the first place, if God wasn't eternal!

2. The Universe Can't be Eternal.

Science makes us to understand that our universe is expanding, and this universe has a limited amount of energy.

Did you get that? If our universe has been expanding, it means it was at a certain time so tiny, and in fact, if we were to reverse it going to where it started, then we would see that it never existed before. Also, the energy was some time in abundance, then gradually it began to reduce. The implication is, someone created it!

3. The God of the Bible Says He is Eternal.

In Psalms 90:2, "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God."

God, like I said, has no beginning and no end, that is why He was not created, because He creats. If we were to start from an infinite period of time to another infinite period, we would find out that He was always there, He is and He would always be there, because time does not influence or affect Him in any way. He created time itself! Wouldn't it then be foolishness to ask, "When was God created, or who created God?" Yes, it would.

You can't ask the One who created 'Time itself' if or when or how He was created!