What did God do during that eternity before he created everything?

Question

If God was all that existed back then, what disturbed the eternal equilibrium and compelled him to create? Was he bored? Was he lonely? God is supposed to be perfect. If something is perfect, it is complete--it needs nothing else. We humans engage in activities because we are pursuing that elusive perfection, because there is disequilibrium caused by a difference between what we are and what we want to be. If God is perfect, there can be no disequilibrium. There is nothing he needs, nothing he desires, and nothing he must or will do. A God who is perfect does nothing except exist. A perfect creator God is impossible

Answer 1

I've asked this same question before. Here it is, if you want to look at the answers I got. I doubt you'll get better ones this time, unfortunately.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgzBw.Fe22kYL3W_DDjreo_sy6IX?qid=1006051525774

Answer 2

Sorry, but I don't think that God has to fit into your definitions of how he should and should not be.

God is Love. Does love exist all on its own? No, even unto himself God is not alone. He is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a community unto himself, Divine Love. We are an expression of God's love. God exists in eternity, and so do we. Eternity is the past, present, and future all at once, the fulfillment of time. Right now you are experiencing life living in time, but you already exist in eternity. All has been decided. The war has been won. The question is, in eternity are you perfect, united with Divine Love, or are you spending eternity permanently separated from God?

If you open your mind and spend some time thinking about this, not just cutting and pasting question after question, you might actually make a connection with eternity and find that God has given you all that you need to know him. A perfect God is possible, because he IS. Do not expect God the infinite to become finite enough to fit into your understandings of him.

Answer 3

We as humans always manage to attribute our weaknesses and understanding back onto our creator when in fact it was us that was created in His "likeness"..not the other way around. There was a Kingdom before us and there will be a Kingdom after and this earth in its current place in time and space was that Kingdom's intended location until, being the perfect Creator that He, allowing for all that exist to have free will, there was a rebellion or rift in the heavenlies...then it was determined find out who we belonged to..ourselves or to Him. What isn't understood by most mainstream Christianity is that Father God of the Godhead established everything for the sake of His Son..all things were made through Him, by Him and for Him and the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was in fact the God of the Gospels, Jesus Christ. He didn't suddenly come into the picture 2000 years ago...He was there in the beginning even as the one who dwelled in the Garden and came upon the two who first rebelled as humans against the most High God. When all is said and done...having irradicated sin and transgression through the complete annihilation of all that is corrupt and wicked (not torture in a fiery pit of hell for eternity..but ultimately the consumation and destruction of death itself) there will never be anything but perfection through out eternity. You are correct about your assessment..there is nothing He cannot do and no place He cannot be...but to say there is nothing He desires is stating that you know the mind of God. How can you and obviously you are wrong..He desires His children to belong to Him and to exist in a place where no harm will ever befall them again. There is no disequilibrium between what we are what we want to be as you say...You cannot equate God's perfection with our desire to be perfect and our falling short of it so miserably. He has filled that gap which indeed is what calls us to desire to attain that mark..not possible in this life, in this state of being..but there will be a time when we will all be born again..and from the seed that is planted here on this earth (the Gospel of Jesus Christ)...we will all be born by the Spirit in Heaven..

Isaiah 61:2-4

2To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

3To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

4And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.


Beauty for ashes...Only a perfect Creator can bring us perfection from all the ugliness we've caused. Love in Christ, ~J~

Answer 4

It is all a product of His nature to create. Everything that has ever manifested on the material plane was first created in the spiritual. He created all things in spirit before they manifested as matter. It is really all light at different levels of intensity. It is sound that slows down the light and allow it to vibrate into a combination of atom and elements known as matter, and it is all how it is perceived through these vehicles called bodies. God has always been creating, is creating right this moment, and will always be creating forever. His creation will never end, but the sub-creation or what man and satan have created will someday disappear, unless it was created by God through man. And the things that remain are in and of God soul discretion.

Answer 5

The Bible isnt specific about that but maybe if you follow him and end up in Heaven you will get to know someday!

What compelled him to create? The same reasons we create things. Because we are creative, have imagination, take pride in our work, and sometimes to just to do it.

A God who is perfect does nothing except exist? I didnt realize you knew everything about God! Thats quite an assumption!

Answer 6

God clearly states in his word that he created us for his good pleasure. He had joy in creating us and wanted others to share his Image and his joy with him. So God was Actually happy and not what you call in disequillibrium and also to have perfect equilibrium is irrelevant especially since we were made with free will and not as Mindless Robots. God had his Angels but he wanted to us that he could share his love and joy with. To create something is not a Sin. In fact we should rather Create than Destroy.

Answer 7

We could postulate and hypothesize this for a very long time and still not come to a conclusion. God is sovereign and can do what He wants. Who knows the mind of God? Who is to say he didn't do this before in a different plane of existence? Why does everything need to be about us? It is about him after all.

Answer 8

There you go again Mojo! You are on the subject of man's feeble mind pretty hard lately, and rightly so. Your previous atheist friends just don't understand. I mean, as you are trying to say, we don't even understand everything in this world, how can we possibly try to explain what happened before with science or man's simple little opinion based on his own agenda and facts. How cool is it that you point out how man engages in activities and then try to equate that to God. yes Mojo, I agree with you, we should not try to compare ourselves to the Lord in thinking what we do things for is also what He would do them for. That IS ridiculous. Anyhow, great job in your quest to bring others to the Lord even with your secret messages you have hidden in what you type!
http://planttel.net/~meharris1/mikescorner.html

Answer 9

If I were you;I would thank God for all HIS gifts..
You must realize that you are here on purpose..
God doesn't even need us..
You are the one who loses at the end,if you continue arguing ALLAH..
Don't think about early ages..BUT think about the present
so that you may save yourself before you DIE..
believe me..you will find a satisfying answer in Quraan
Try to find a book translating its meaning...
i wish you all the best..:)

Answer 10

Perhaps he played with the dinosaurs for a while, perhaps God goes through fazes every million years. Didn't God design the Angels, or were they alien, perhaps that was it, when Lucifer went bad and took off with one third, Our God thought about us, and that's all it took and here we are, were near Revelation, time for God's next plan... advancing us into a perfect system, perhaps just another level, who knows how many other levels God has as a set plan.

Answer 11

Your little soliloquy is not much more than sophistry. You base your arguement on the FACT that God must have been driven to create, or had a need of some sort.
Sort of like the question, "can God creat a rock so heavy he couldn't lift it?"
You presume to be a bit of an intellectual.
True knowledge and wisdom are a bit more humble and seeking than this.