Our conscience tells us that there is a God, and that He is good.  Our sense of logic can tell us more about God’s characteristics.  Incidentally, logic's view of God matches Christianity’s description of God. 

In the universe, there must exist a first cause by which no cause precedes it.  There must exist an uncaused cause. Let’s call this uncaused cause “God.”

Eternal

God must be, by definition, eternal, else God would need a cause also.  All finite, changing things that exist need causes.  To say "well then what caused God" assumes that God is a finite, changing thing.  God, if He exists, must be infinite and unchanging else we are left with an infinite regress, which is a philosophical absurdity.  The uncaused cause therefore cannot be temporal.  In short, anything that is actually eternal by definition cannot have a cause.  The question “who caused God” becomes an absurdity if applied to an eternal being. 

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