This article is translated from Hebrew. It was written originally by Eran in the “Hofesh” website.

If you ask a “Western” religious believer when the world was created, you will almost certainly receive an answer that the world was created some 5700-6000 years ago. If you ask who created the world, the answer will be ‘God’. According to that belief, God is eternal and ancient, has always existed, and was not created out of nothing. The idea or the possibility that God was created is not accepted by the religious believer. If this is the case then there is something more mighty, powerful, and ancient than God, hence it is appropriate to worship the creator of God. Of course, you can make it more difficult and ask what created that creator, and so on and so forth.

From the believer’s point of view, God is eternal and ancient. If we start from this and we want to calculate how long God existed before the creation of the world, we will reach the inevitable conclusion, that God existed an infinite number of years before the creation of the world.

Using other words: The difference in time between the creation of the world and God’s existence is infinite. From this it must follow that God cannot create a world at any particular time, because God must exist infinitely before that.

Since we know for sure that the world exists, then the obvious conclusion – according to the religious belief – is that ‘God’ does not exist, that he/it never was, was not created, and did not create anything.

Creation, as far as God is concerned, is man’s: In the beginning man created God.