GOD..... created the world.

Charles C. Ryrie ~
"(a) every effect has a cause; (b) the effect caused depends on the cause for its existence; and (c) nature cannot originate itself.
If something now exists (the cosmos) then either it came from nothing or it came from something which must be eternal. The something eternal in the second option could either be the cosmos itself which would have to be eternal, or chance as an eternal principle, or God the eternal Being.
To say that the cosmos came from nothing means it was self-created. This is a logical contradiction, because for something to be self-created it must exist and not exist at the same time in the same way. Furthermore, self-creation has never been scientifically demonstrated and observed.
A variation of the view that holds to the eternality of matter is the Steady State Theory which suggests that matter is constantly created near the center of the universe and destroyed at the outer perimeter of space.
However, there is no evidence to support this theory, and if it were true, it would violate the law of the conservation of mass and energy.
Does not the matter of cause and effect also apply to God? Is He not also an effect that required a cause? The answer is no, because God is not an effect (an effect being something that requires a cause) because He is eternal.
If the cosmos did not generate itself, then there must be something eternal which caused it. One option is that the cosmic process itself is eternal, an option scarcely held. Rather almost all hold that the universe had a beginning, however long ago it may have been.
Another option is that there is some eternal principle of chance or blind intelligence. To believe this option requires a large measure of faith. It can be demonstrated mathematically that random chance could not have produced what we observe today in the universe. But even if it could produce molecules and atoms, the "stuff" of the universe, could such a nonliving principle also produce the soul and spirit facets of life?
The third option is the theistic one; that is, the eternal Being that caused the cosmos is God. This does not mean that the universe reveals all the details of the character of that eternal Being, but it does mean that there is a living, powerful, intelligent Being who caused the universe. Living, because non life cannot produce life. Powerful, because of the very nature of what was formed. Intelligent, because of the order and arrangement of the cosmos, things which chance could not generate." ~ Basic Theology by Charles C. Ryrie ~ page 28 - 29