For both camps: If there was no such thing as the big bang because god created the universe, then who or what created god? And don't even try to quote the bible because there is no such thing as a god family tree in there.
2006-07-19 05:42:34 · 21 answers · asked by Susan P 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I love how creationists can just say that god just "always was" or "always existed" but then deny that something could have been created from nothing. What's the difference? You're saying that something you can't see or prove has always been there, and that we can't conceive of it...why couldn't it be that we just can't conceive of something coming from nothing? You can't see or prove that either...
Hypocrites...I have no problem with your faith, just your closed-mindedness...accept other possibilities...it doesn't prevent you from holding your belief unless your faith is weak to begin with...
2006-07-19 05:57:06 · answer #1 · answered by cfluehr 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I answered this question a week ago, but here it is again.
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.
2006-07-19 05:47:58 · answer #2 · answered by ♥ Bekka ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, but I must quote the Bible on this. It says to trust in the LORD, and lean not unto your own understanding. Now, the human mind cannot completely understand the concept that God has always existed. We as humans have always known a beginning and an end to something. We've always known something to be created by someone else. Me personally, I just don't question it, and I know when I get to Heaven one day, that I'll understand it completely.
2006-07-19 05:54:50 · answer #3 · answered by GJneedsanswers 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about God set in motion the matter that eventually caused the big bang! That would satisfy the creationist that say God created every thing but also the evolutionist because it still allows evolution to take its course.
2006-07-19 05:56:11 · answer #4 · answered by fjrnj 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Consider the question I posted 2 days ago:
"The big bang supposes that a point in space with infinite mass exploded hence the reason for the expanding universe. Black hole science tells us that gravity can be so intense that even light cannot escape "the event horizon i.e. the a sphere around a black hole beyond whic nothing can escape). How do you think our present universe managed to escape the infinite point gravity?"
2006-07-19 05:48:20 · answer #5 · answered by St Lusakan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Creations are based on time and a temporary nature. God is not a creation but eternal. It is hard for us as creations that are not eternal to understand it. It is a like a whole new level of physics beyond what we know. As a created being we have to think that everything else is created like us.
2006-07-19 05:58:11 · answer #6 · answered by Fantasy Girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Big Bang Theory is a very good one, and I believe it. It makes perfect scientific sense. God is a fairy tale. The End
2006-07-19 05:46:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God always was and he always will be. The reason that concept is so hard to grasp is because we're humans and he's God. It's hard for us to even understand that we can't understand God. But just try to believe without putting yourself up next to God. This same question is posted so many times it's annoying. Please try to understand that.
Peace Out
2006-07-19 05:45:11 · answer #8 · answered by lexa (: 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The belief, and yes, it's in the Bible, is that God has no beginning and he has no end. Which is hard for any human to contemplate. Kind of a 5th dimension kind of thing.
2006-07-19 05:45:04 · answer #9 · answered by CHRISTINA 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says God is the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end. In other words, He has always been around and always will be.
2006-07-19 05:46:26 · answer #10 · answered by BeeFree 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋