1. Something has always existed (not personal something - i.e. no personal God)
2. God has always existed (personal something)
3. Either of the above came into being at a point in time past from nothing.
2006-08-29 15:24:02 · 16 answers · asked by nobodiesinc 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If I answer this, my cat will get my Pizza.
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2006-08-29 16:20:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
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2006-08-29 22:27:36 · answer #2 · answered by snuggels102 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is my belief* that all of the matter and energy found in the entire universe has always existed. The laws of conservation show that matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed... they simply change form or are redistributed. There is more to my idea of this subject that includes things like the big bang however i know nothing of astrophysics so I'm probably wrong. However, this seems far more likely than some god making everything. God surely had to come into being somehow in that case. If not and you can grasp the notion of a god always existing then what becomes so hard about believing that everything you can actually see and feel has always existed... just in a different form?
* I rarely base anything on beliefs alone but this subject can only be answered by speculation. My belief however is based on reason and observation.
2006-08-29 22:43:50 · answer #3 · answered by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No.
Though I don't understand it, I believe a trained physicist would say without space there is no time. Your 3 options all assume a concept called time.
According to string theory, we live in a universe of something like 10 space dimensions and 1 time dimension (all interwoven together). 7 of the space dimensions are very small and "curled up" so that we aren't naturally aware of them. We are only aware of the 3 bigger ones.
So another option is that God or something like a god existed somewhere outside our universe. He or it, not existing in our universe, is not subject to space and time as we are. Therefore for this God like thing or God, there is no before and after. Perhaps he can browse around our universe like a person reading a book. He can peek at the end, read a couple chapters and then take a break, then go back and re read something. Since we're part of the story we are stuck living in the order things are "written". But God can go anyplace and anytime he wants, just as you can read any chapter at anytime and in whatever order you feel like.
Who knows...but I do know that the universe is mysterious and more complex and weirder than most of us are aware. Also I know that we aren't as smart as we think we are. We only think we're smart because we're a lot smarter when compared to the animals. But compared to the complexity of the universe, we are what Dr. Evil described as "friggin' idiots."
2006-08-29 23:09:09 · answer #4 · answered by Chapin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
3 no.
Something had to have always existed or noting would ever exist!
It is even hard for me to understand forever.
The only thing can fit the concept is
Energy, and the Energy has to be self aware!
An amount of energy would have to have existed in the void forever, at some point this energy through a conscious act use a bit of its self to create matter.
If it were not a conscious act all the energy would convert.
We have other problems
1. is how much energy was there to start with
2. how much energy is needed to create the universe
3 was there enough left to be a God
If yes to the above then this energy could easily become a personal being! (yes as in 3)
2006-08-29 23:57:01 · answer #5 · answered by Grandreal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only option is 1... ok, maybe 2... But definetly 1. Something cannot come from nothing, so every partical that makes up everything in the universe has always existed in a different form
2006-08-29 22:34:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good question, and I have a feeling your going to get tons of different answers, some serious, some not so. It really depends on the person and thier personal veiw. There are of course alot of options, such as there was never a god we got put here by aliens(humours, but some people really think this), There are really 3 super beings, The God and Goddess of the Relm and then the mortal God of this demention, ect.Some people think we evloved from dragons or that we all come from a race of so called others. The newest one is called other Kin. Good luck on your question, i hope you get more straight answer, however than goof balls.
2006-08-29 22:32:16 · answer #7 · answered by mother_of_bonehead 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's close...Something has always existed or at some point something (same referrent) came into being. Your third option is illusory and unnecessary to this question.
Now you could replace "something" with any X.
Hope this helps. You can't possibly know either way. It was a long time ago while you weren't looking.
2006-08-29 22:33:15 · answer #8 · answered by anyone 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God has always existed
In Christ in Love,
TJ57
2006-08-29 22:43:06 · answer #9 · answered by TJ 57 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is also the opinion (not a common opinion) that nothing has ever existed.
Also there could be the opinion that everything has always existed.
2006-08-29 22:29:21 · answer #10 · answered by monkeymanelvis 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
something has always existed even before the existence of time and it will exist even after the end of time. now that something which can exist without any constraints is known as God(Allah).
that something which comes on earth and dies is called human.
2006-08-29 22:37:16 · answer #11 · answered by marissa 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋