Why doesn't God need an origin?

Answer 1

Because something had to be first. There has to be an originator.

Answer 2

To follow along J.P.'s line of thought. If you were to believe the Big Bang Theory, what caused the Big Bang and what caused the matter to compress into the infantecimal spec to begin with? What is the origin of all matter in its compressed state before the Big Bang? Just playing Devil's Advocate here really. Multiple perspectives usually help me.
I have found that I don't need an answer there. I know it is well beyond my ability to find the answer. Wether it is God or science or a never-ending preexistance, that's all fine by me. It's not a matter of whether God needs an origin so much as whether YOU need God to have an origin.

Answer 3

Because God is infinite. Everything exists within the context of God. Time exists within God. Therefore God, being outside of time, doesn't need an origin because He exists at EVERY time, simultaneously.

It's similar to quantum string theory... especially if you ever watched quantum leap. You take a string, which illustrates time, and form it into a loop.. Now time is an endless loop. Crumple that string up into a ball so that every point of it touches every other point.. (ok that might not be possible to do with a string, but you get the idea)

Now, all time co-exists, that is.. every moment in time happens at exactly the same time. So, the origin of earth, man, etc all happened just as you read this sentence, as well as the end of earth, man, etc happening.

God is both the string (of time) and the one who "crumples the string"...

Rev 1:8
"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty."

The human mind is so finite in comparison to God, that we will never fully understand Him. I would say the closest anyone has come yet is the 'singularity'

Answer 4

***Why doesn't God need an origin?

Wow, this question assumes that such a thing as a God has been proved to be more reasonable than not.
Everything that we know of appears to need a maker or cause.
Who made Allah, Jehovah, Zeus and the other Gods.
To say with conviction that the Gods created themselves is unacceptable as a reasonable answer for some.
I believe it is most reasonable to say we created the Gods in our own images after our own liking.
And that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Answer 5

In experience, all effects have a cause. However, at some point, you reach the beginning of the universe (however you believe it came into existance). At this point, you have creation, an effect. So what was the cause? Some attribute it to the Big Bang, some to the actions of a deific force. A deity takes the role of the 'prima causa', the 'first cause' from which all else is an effect. The basic concept is that there is an existence bigger than the universe (god, the multiverse/cosmos, etc) which can contain a cause that creates our universe as its effect.

Answer 6

What caused the big bang? For we need to know that to take the next step you ask.

Why doesn't time have an origin? Or space have no end?

However, time does not have an origin and space has no end.

Sorry, that this raises more questions, but, we may never know the answer to your question.

Answer 7

God doesn't need an origin because that messes up the fairytale. It's the same reason Superman stands while bullets are bouncing off of him, but ducks when the gun is thrown at him. It just makes for a better story. It doesn't have to make sense.

Answer 8

God is the origin.

Answer 9

I want you to think about something.

Why does any of this have to be here?

Let's just say that the Big Bang Theory is correct.

What is the origin of the pinpoint of whatever that it all started out as?

If you think about it, you have to wonder why anything exists at all.

Why? Could it not just as easily be the other way around, so that not even our thoughts about such things would exist?

To me, that is an absolute mindblower -- when that question first came to me, I was stunned for minutes.

Answer 10

What ever your or my thought of God is, lose it. You are human you us approx. 10% of your brain which makes everyone of us dumb. So get this human notion of who or what God is or even no God out of your head because any complex conclusion you come up with will be flawed. Atheist have a simple argument if God was first, who created God? I say this, I know our stupid human race could not possibly concieve ourselves and if you are dumb enough to think we just popped out of no where then so be it, keep living in oblivion. So they get back to, then who created God. A humans capibility has been well proven (and there's not much there as far as capibility), CAN YOU PROVE GOD'S?