How is God self-sufficient?
"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.” ACTS 17:24–25 One of the most amazing things about God—His self-sufficiency—is also one of the hardest to comprehend. It’s not very difficult to think of God being so powerful that He could create the universe. Even people who don’t think much about God can at least imagine how an almighty higher power could bring the world into existence. But the idea that God is uncreated and completely self-sufficient, that He has no beginning and has always existed with no help from any other power—well, that just isn’t comprehensible to our finite human minds. The self-existence of God is such a primal puzzlement that even a child, when told that God made the world, will often respond with the question, “Who made God?” This r