Question:
Who created god? And what was before god?
anonymous
2013-04-03 10:25:15 UTC
Who created god? And what was before god?
31 answers:
Paul
2013-04-04 01:27:33 UTC
Rebeka, this question does not have an answer. If you go to the Bible, the answer is God always was. If you go to science, they don't know and will not believe until they find the answer. So you are safe to just believe whatever you want. There is no answer.



Now, let's try to understand it a little better just to satisfy our curiosity. We know there is space. Try to imagine a time where there was no space. Can you understand what that would be like? I can't. That's probably because there was always space. So if I want to know what caused space, do I understand what I am asking? To asked that question, I first have to understand what was before space, and I can't.



It's a whole lot easier to believe that God is and always was. I don't think anyone is going to prove otherwise anytime soon.
?
2013-04-03 17:26:52 UTC
No one. Nothing.



"Im a methodist and I still have a hard time believing god created himself. This is when I put more faith into science cause its impossible to create yourself"

- Well, that's not what the Bible says. God never said, "I created myself." The Bible is clear that God is eternal, always existed, was not created.
?
2013-04-03 23:17:29 UTC
Here's my view:



In order for God to be a person, he has to change. Consciousness is a process. So surely God would have a personal timeline, which raises the question of what circumstances gave rise to the process of God's consciousness. Was he conscious forever, and if so then did he wait an infinite amount of time before creating us?



The major problem here, I think, is not infinity but consciousness. For all we know, the universe (or the Omniverse, if you like) could be an infinite fractal of some description wherein the concept of a beginning has no meaning.
Lou G
2013-04-04 08:07:14 UTC
GOD is a 3 letter metaphor to symbolically describe the trinity of power, 0, +, and - .

If you say AMP, you design the power of GOD, by OHM, you design it's resistance, by V you design the strength. GOD is Nothingness, Resonance, and Gravity, NRG, Energy. All creation of matter, non matter, anti matter, is a manifestation of energy. Yes, I know that it is simple, and Idiots around the globe pray to energy, while they are themselves that energy. Never pray to GOD, use him for the good or the bad. The secret lies within the choice only. Every material body is formed by morphogenetic field information, the matrix learns and adapts that information by reading the morphic fields all matter create. Those fields are causal and effective. Only Existence is not, since the cause and effect of being is be. I am what I am, that is what GOD is, and, it is the cause of all, good and bad, the universal guilty one.
?
2013-04-03 22:45:05 UTC
"God" as Christians see him is only 2000 years old. The Jewish god, which Christianity was based upon, is about 3300 years old. Before this, most religions had many gods- nothing like monotheistic gods. Before this people worshipped the sun, the sea etc. If this is not proof that God does not exist, I don't know what is. Evolution? How can something always exist, if it created everything from nothing? Something cannot come from nothing, as you learn in science.
?
2013-04-03 18:07:22 UTC
I can't give justice to the question as it is vast. Now, this is going to stretch some of those brain cells. God is Omnipresent. Which means everywhere, fully, all at once. Scripture says God consists of two beings who always have been and from these being all else came. These two beings existed before matter and so without form, the only conception of something without matter/form, is thought. THese two beings are living energy, thought energy. Its hard as its a new way of thinking. We are used too thinking in terms of limitation, beginning end,etc. This is the mystery. THis Energy created us, is us. BUt this would take great explanation.



I like to think of it like this: Its like I am a fish and God is the ocean. I live, breath and have my being in the ocean/God. Is the fish separate from the ocean? Or the ocean separate from the fish? THey are one and the same. We are in fact part of a Divine Race of Beings, if only we could grasp it. Now, its hard to comprehend because the 'world' teaches us from day one, limitation. We are brought up to believe in separation, limitation. Matter, form. But trained to also ignore thought, to disbelieve in the unseen etc. THese Divine Beings and the realm that they represent and us are like Einstein and a 2yo kid. This realm is beyond our comprehension.

THats all I got
Alex
2013-04-04 07:38:55 UTC
You pretty much stumbled into the ultimate question of "Why is there something as opposed to nothing?"



Because if you asked "why is there a God as opposed to there not being a God?", then you have an answer. And then you would then ask "Well if [blank] created God, why is there a [blank] as opposed to there not being a [blank]?"



And so on and so forth.
Steph
2013-04-03 17:28:21 UTC
No one created God because according to the bible God is creator of all things. Nothing came before him in the Bible it says time did not exist before God created life meaning there really wasn't anything except his kingdom.
?
2013-04-03 17:34:15 UTC
The classic theological response is that god does need to be created because he is eternal. He transcends space and time. This is an assumption without justification nevertheless.
Jay Z
2013-04-03 17:41:35 UTC
God is.

Before time which was created by God, He is. (not was.)

Throughout all eternity God is.



He is the uncaused Cause of all that exists in time, space, and the spiritual realm.

All effects emanate from the uncaused Cause.
?
2013-04-03 17:30:08 UTC
G*D is Eternal Infinite, does not exist in any tangible way.

One cannot say about G-d that He is an existence, because then He would need a cause that brought Him into existence. So G-d, basically is a non-entity. He's responsible for everything else existing, but He Himself cannot be called an existence. Existence is just one of those great ideas He came up with one day.

Hey, next time you're in an argument with an atheist, tell him for me, "Yeah, we also believe that G-d is not an existence." That'll send 'em reeling.

As for all these descriptions of kindness, wisdom, etc you can't say that He isn't kind, right? Or that He isn't wise. Or that He doesn't have any particular quality. If He is infinite, He must have all of that, as well. That's called negative theology and a lot of philosophers, including Muslims and Christians, really got off on that idea. (For one thing, it answered that prickly issue of the big rock that even You-Know-Who can't lift.)

So back to our question, if G-d, the Ein Sof or whatever we will call Him, has no descriptors and can't even be called an existence, then in what way is He/It any different than nothing at all?



Let's talk in terms of information: Nothing contains no information. Yes, you can read that two ways. Let's try again: Whatever you say about nothing just isn't true. That's basically what nothing is: A vacuum of information.

The Ein Sof, on the other hand, can provide you with oodles of information. In fact, infinite information. Like what? Like the fact that existence extends from it. And it extends through the medium of ten sefirot, four worlds and all that engineering stuff. Really all the information there is and ever could be. The caveat is that none of that information tells you anything about the Ein Sof.

So we have three, not two, categories:



Something provides a limited set of information, which accumulatively describes that something.

The Ein Sof provides unlimited information, which accumulatively gets you nowhere. It's information. It's information about the Ein Sof. But it never gets around to telling you what the Ein Sof is.



Get this: All of reality is nothing but G-d's fingerprint. A fingerprint is information. It's a unique identifier that extends from one individual alone to point to only one place and tell you whodunit. But it tells you nothing about this person whodunit. Zilch. Just like any of those numbers they use to identify you in some privacy-intruding database: A number that points uniquely to you and only you, but says absolutely nothing about you (even if those bureaucrats believe that number is you). So the entire universe and all the higher ones, too, all the way up to the very first emanation, they all point to a single, ultimate Source of All Being--and tell you absolutely zilch about what that Whatever-It-Is is.

Ein Sof is not a three-letter but a four-letter one, translated into modern-think as "That Which Causes Being."

So is G-d Wisdom? Or Compassion? Or Love? Of course not. He is the Ein Sof, infinitely beyond any description. But if you want to find Him, you will study His wisdom, pray for His compassion and learn to love as He loves.
?
2013-04-03 17:28:14 UTC
The point which you a created being cannot fathom God has always existed and always will there is nor could there be anything before Him for if there was that would have been God first! It is a weak argument you are posing.
?
2013-04-03 17:29:48 UTC
God is uncreated, because He exists out of the created (i.e. The Universe).
Joline
2013-04-05 01:00:14 UTC
Anything that is eternal, like a God, has no birth date.
Jackli
2013-04-05 00:15:57 UTC
God is the truth, God is Now, God is wisdom, God is compassion! You think God thinks! I am that, I am. I'm that I'm healthy, happy, safe and wealthy, I am!
?
2013-04-04 05:27:54 UTC
Well, according to modern scientists, they say there was nothing before the universe, which in my opinion, makes more sense than spaceman spiff.
?
2013-04-03 17:28:20 UTC
Man created "god" and before it was just the sun.
anonymous
2013-04-03 17:29:56 UTC
Cave man created god!!! Bears were before god, rock formations were before bears!!!
infowars.com/wnd.com
2013-04-03 17:39:58 UTC
no one

see kjv bible isaiah 57:15 They live in the dimension of eternity where there is no death - we are invited to live in this dimension with Them (revelation 21.4) if we learn to stop sinning - matthew 19:16-19 / 1 john 3.4 / acts 2:38-39 / acts 3;17-26
ForeverFREE
2013-04-05 00:16:58 UTC
Sadly there is no such thing as a God
Pat K
2013-04-03 17:27:01 UTC
God always was always will be and always remains the same. Tough to wrap your brain around, this is where faith comes into play.
JS ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
2013-04-03 17:29:20 UTC
God was always and always will be... He created Himself .
anonymous
2013-04-03 17:28:20 UTC
god told you in Scripture for all is Matter and their was nothing before god. Read Proverbs 8.-Jesus Christ
Uncle Wayne
2013-04-03 17:29:41 UTC
The evolutionary process.
anonymous
2013-04-04 21:09:35 UTC
God is eternal, your argument is invalid.
Computer Glow
2013-04-05 00:38:14 UTC
God has no creator and no beginning. He is eternal. =)
anonymous
2013-04-03 17:26:44 UTC
Energy can't be created, it is always there.



Deep and meaningful, or what?
theguyman
2013-04-03 17:26:24 UTC
The world may never know...
TheTruthIsHardToAccept
2013-04-03 17:27:25 UTC
*the room became silent as Christians gathered to find an answer*
Ozzi
2013-04-05 01:47:37 UTC
This should answer your question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr5lY0TcdAw&list=UU0yHs9gU58FmIaXvyUvNjuQ&index=4
?
2013-04-03 10:26:00 UTC
exactly


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