Where did God come from!? I just asked this and got answers like "don't ask that!", "no-one really knows", "we can't understand it", plus the usual rediculous answers like "god always was", or "god is the uncaused cause", or "you have to have faith". You think you're so smart and you can't even answer this simple question!!!!!???
...still on my way to Galveston. (I bet you wish I was already there)
(for those who didn't get it the first time, look up the word "parody")
2006-07-10 07:36:14 · 32 answers · asked by lenny 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
sigh...even when you say it's parody, half don't even get it.
the human race is a sad race.
that girl you're referring to is just one of the saddest examples of that sad race.
2006-07-10 07:41:57 · answer #1 · answered by Thinx 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
"Who created God? Where did God come from?"
Answer: The atheist Bertrand Russell wrote in his book "Why I am Not a Christian"- that if it is true that all things need a cause then God must also need a cause. He concluded from this that if God needed a cause then God was not God (and if God is not God then of course there is no God). This was basically a slightly more sophisticated form of the childlike question, "Who made God?" Even a child knows that things do not come from nothing, so if God is a "something" then He must have a cause as well, right?
This question is tricky because it sneaks in the false assumption that God came from somewhere and then asks where that might be. The answer is that the question does not even make sense. It is like asking, "What does blue smell like?" Blue is not in the category of things that have odor, so the question itself is flawed. In the same way, God is not in the category of things that are created, or come into existence, or are caused. God is uncaused and uncreated - He simply exists.
How do we know this? Well, we know that from nothing, nothing comes. So if there was ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence then nothing would have ever come to exist. But things do exist. Therefore, since there could never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been existing.
So that ever-existing thing is what we call God.
2006-07-10 07:40:24 · answer #2 · answered by ♥ Bekka ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One scripture that is used to answer this question is Psalms 90:2. I am not sure why someone would say not to ask this question, I think it is very important to ask any question. Psalms 90:2 says - Before the mountains themselves were peorn or you proceeded to bring forth as with labor pains the earth and the productive land, even from time indefinite to time indefinite you are God.
Is that reasonable? Our minds cannot fully comprehend it. But that is not a sound reason for rejecting it. DOnsider examples: Time. No one can point to a certain moment as the beginning of time. And it is a fact that, even though our lives end, time does not. We do not reject the idea of time because there are aspects of it that we do not fully comprehend. Rater, we regulate our lives by it. 2. Space. Astronomers find no beggining or end to space. The farter they probe into the univers, the more there is. They do not reject waht the evidnce shows; many refert to space as being infinite. I feel it is also hard to comprehend because almost everything we are familliar with has some form of beginning. There are many examples of things we don't actually comprehend, like the heat of the sun - 27,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit and the Milky Way but we accept it.
2006-07-10 07:55:02 · answer #3 · answered by blu_id86 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, this question has an HONEST to goodness answer. AND I HAVE ANSWERED IT EVERY FRIGGIN' DAY FOR THE LAST 4 DAYS ON YAHOO! ANSWERS, so look it up.
He is the I AM God, or I AM THAT I AM or I AM THAT I CAUSED MYSELF TO BE, that explains it all (also look up the tetragrammaton). How He Willed Himself into Being BEFORE the Universe and everything. Its so simple and factual.
This also proves that He isn't a Trinity, because only Yahweh/Jehovah came into existance and then created Jesus and the Holy Spirit before Creating the Angels and then the Universe and therefore, Time (this is all Bible based, and in order of creation).
Once again, look it up.
2006-07-10 07:44:51 · answer #4 · answered by AdamKadmon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that anyone here claims to be an expert on this subject or "all knowing". The fact that you are asking this question twice means that you certainly don't know the answer either.
Why don't you try doing a parody on something more worthwhile such as the theory of evolution and stop wasting our time and insulting our religious beliefs and opinions.
2006-07-10 07:51:41 · answer #5 · answered by greg_duren 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alright, you biitches, I got this.
You know there are several dimensions, more subtle, and besides the 4 we play with? And particles pop into and out of our universe, seemingly at random? The age of the universe is determinable by calculating when the big bang happened, but there are many universes, and other things as well, like super-planes. We have no concept of how old these could be. It is time, HUGE AMOUNTS of time, that has let the raw energy from the big bang settle into us typing on computers. Our consciousness has evolved, out of seeming anarchy, in this outrageous amount of time. The age of our universe is a blink in the staggering magnitude (good porno title) of age and expanse of all existence. SO...any kind of super-consciousness could have developed OUT THERE, and be currently directing the physical processes on OUR PLANET through minute extra-dimensional interference IN OUR BRAINS, BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
2006-07-11 19:30:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is the end-all to my arguments with on-fire christians. I tell them that they have to admitt that since they believe that god created the earth, they have to believe that by definition alone that makes him an alien. and, that belief in the possibility that an advanced alien race or group is responsible for human higher evolution, is not a conflicting belief, just more logical. You have to admitt, if god was real (which I don't believe) he was an alien of some kind. Maybe like Tralane from startrek TOS
2006-07-10 07:43:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did:
In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule or poke affectionate fun at either the work itself, or the subject of the work, or in some cases simply the subject of the parody.
Too bad it wasn't funny.
As far as wishing you were in Galveston, I would rather wish that someone would break your keyboard or cut your internet connection so that we wouldn't be subjected to your inane babble. See, now THAT was funny...
2006-07-10 07:43:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God comes from the overwhelming desire of the human mind to have an answer for everything. In other words, if the answer is far too complicated for the intellectually challenged to understand, it makes them feel better to say "God did it".
2006-07-10 07:42:33 · answer #9 · answered by poecile 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's easy s&h. He came from the collective consciousness of ancient man. Supernatural explanations were used to explain things they did not understand. Do I win anything for this?
edit:"God comes from the same place wind does"???
I don't think that is true. God did not come from the momentum of Earth's rotation, did he?
2006-07-10 07:40:58 · answer #10 · answered by bc_munkee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you can answer my question I will answer yours.
Where did the material come from to make the universe? Where did all this dirt, water, gasses and minerals come from to make the planets, stars, comets, suns, and asteroids? What was their beginning?
My answer is God said "let it be so". There was nothing until God created it.
2006-07-10 07:44:20 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋