where did "GOD" come from?..?

Answer 1

Oddly enough, I just answered this in a question about the origins of faith. Basically, we want to flee from the anxiety created by our existential predicament. We don’t want to be fully conscious of our limitations, our lack of choice in being here, but our radical freedom given the fact that we are here. We want to flee. We want someone else to take the weight of our existential responsibility. As children, our parents were responsible for us. One of our first cognitive experiences was the experience of being supported, loved, nurtured, and cared for. But soon we also discovered the pain of punishment. Once we become old enough to realize our existential predicament (our radical freedom, limitations, etc) we yearn for the bliss of having someone else shoulder our existential burdens for us. Our actual parents ultimately always let us down – we inevitably come to realize that they are limited just like we are, and they cannot in fact support us in the way we originally experienced.

Faith is fundamental to consciousness, and thus cannot be avoided. WHAT we have faith in ultimately flows from our existential predicament and our desires for love, support, and meaning. In effect, we yearn for a new parent – one that is not limited – one that can do the impossible, namely, shoulder the burden of our own existential predicament. This is the Being that becomes known as God.

Answer 2

From the primitive mind that faced an unknown and hostile universe. The more rational part of our brains, the cerebral cortex, was a later development in modern man....say the last 40,000 to 100,000 years. The primitive limbic system of our brains is where our belief in a god or religion comes from....it was our way of survival back in the cave man days.

Obsolete genes do not die overnight, therefore you'll be seeing the majority of the earth's population believing in a 'higher' presence...ie God.

Answer 3

To avoid the fallacy of Infinite Regress [a cause from a cause forever], which we know can not be true, we must postulate an 'unmoved Mover' as a necessary corollary to existence. The prevents us from falling into not only the Fallacy of Infinite regress as to the cause of creation but the other fallacy of assuming that being could create itself out of nothing ['ex nihilo', which we also know can not be true].

Only God answers these two insurmountable obstacles.

Some of the other posts here add to this, particularly about 'time' but this is my contribution.

Belzebub,

I'm sorry you knew some stupid people. Maybe reconsider if that is an accurate picture.

Answer 4

From our imaginations. From our fears of death, floods, volcanos, and monsters. From our need to feel safe. From some people's need to control and dominate other people.

So if nothing can come from nothing (seems reasonable) then there must be a God who always existed and has always been perfect is a stupid answer. What was there before there was the universe? We don't know yet but we're working on it :)

Answer 5

God is a timeless being, He has no beginning or end. He is also considered a Necessary being by Thomas Aquinas, His existence is necessitated. On the other hand, you and I are contingent beings. We can pass away from the scene, but God will always be God.
Read Hebrews chapter 1. Revelation 1: 17.

Answer 6

GOD is the Crater of place and time!!
so your question goes into a paradox. The words "when" and "where" does not exist before GOD, GOD was the first before existence, and He is the Last after the End.

It is time to free our thoughts from our senses and our conventions.

Answer 7

At this point, we really don't know where anything came from. I'm not sure that the situation we are in will ever let us know where anything came from.

Scientists keep pointing to the big bang theory, but who is to say that there wasn't a universe prior to the big bang and that the big bang was just an event that spawned the universe as we currently know it.

Answer 8

God didn't come from anywhere because he is the first nothing existed before him.

Answer 9

He was created with the big bang, 16 billion years ago. He goes by different names known as the laws of nature.

Answer 10

it is a convenient answer to life's all the problems and the concept of GOD has existed before the concept of science thus it is deeply rooted in people's hearts.