Something can't come from nothing. God is something. What did God come from?

Question

Why is this question never answered successfully by anyone?

Answer 1

Yet it is always asked concerning evolution, which is what prompted this I suppose...

Answer 2

I give you credit for asking this question, but many scholars and philosophers have brilliantly and successfully answered this question from centuries ago up until the present time, it's just that the answer is too profoundly simple for people to comprehend.
The (really) short version: God is infinite, i.e. no beginning and no end. Knowing this, there is then no need to think that God "came from something."
For a more thorough version, I refer you to these books: The Science Before Science: A Guide To Thinking In The 21st Century by Anthony Rizzi; The Wonder of the World: A Journey from Modern Science to the Mind of God by Roy Abraham Varghese.
I hope you find what you are searching for.

Answer 3

There never was a 'nothing', and rather than me repeat what I've said in a previous answer relating to a question and the 'nothing', I would like to cheat and find it to paste through to here.


Hmmm, no time to go hunting so lets try a quick explanation ;)

Draw a 0 on a piece of paper....
now do you have a zero, or something?

you have 1x0
now we have a number created by one full rotation. Yep a number even though the zero is a nothing because the rotation created a 1....

Just giving you an idea how there could never be a nothing because something was created from the zero-and that zero confines everything to interact, transform itself and use all within itself to create more for continuance....

Answer 4

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was God. Genesis 1:1. He is, was and always will be. It's called faith and that's the only way it can be explained. Atheists don't like that answer but really, that's the only one there is.

Answer 5

e=mc2
This formula proposes that when a body has a mass (measured at rest), it has a certain (very large) amount of energy associated with this mass. This is opposed to the Newtonian mechanics, in which a massive body at rest has no kinetic energy, and may or may not have other (relatively small) amounts of internal stored energy (such as chemical energy or thermal energy), in addition to any potential energy it may have from its position in a field of force. That is why a body's rest mass, in Einstein's theory, is often called the rest energy of the body. The E of the formula can be seen as the total energy of the body, which is proportional to the mass of the body.

Conversely, a single photon travelling in empty space cannot be considered to have an effective mass, m, according to the above equation. The reason is that such a photon cannot be measured in any way to be at "rest" and the formula above applies only to single particles when they are at rest, and also systems at rest (i.e., systems when seen from their center of mass frame). Individual photons are generally considered to be "massless," (that is, they have no rest mass or invariant mass) even though they have varying amounts of energy and relativistic mass. Systems of two or more photons moving in different directions (as for example from an electron-positron anihilation) will have an invariant mass, and the above equation will then apply to them, as a system, if the invariant mass is used.

This formula also gives the quantitative relation of the quantity of mass lost from a resting body or a resting system (a system with no net momentum, where invariant mass and relativistic mass are equal), when energy is removed from it, such as in a chemical or a nuclear reaction where heat and light are removed. Then this E could be seen as the energy released or removed, corresponding with a certain amount of relativistic or invariant mass m which is lost, and which corresponds with the removed heat or light. In those cases, the energy released and removed is equal in quantity to the mass lost, times the speed of light squared. Similarly, when energy of any kind is added to a resting body, the increase in the resting mass of the body will be the energy added, divided by the speed of light squared.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E=mc%C2%B2

Peace and Love

Answer 6

Actually your premise is incorrect.
Even if you dont believe in a god, there must have been, at one time, a great Void - a Nothing from which we emerged.

There is a quality of "Nothing" that brings about "somethings" in this reality.

Answer 7

Causality implies time; something before and something after. God is said to be outside of time and space. Therefore, to ask about God's origin (cause) is a category mistake, aplying the language suited to one realm of thought to another (much like Creationists confusing the vernacular and scientific definitions of "theory"). So the question itself is nonsense.

Answer 8

Aliens

Answer 9

God IS, was and always will be.We/I accept this in faith.
Now, you say you can't see God, so how do we know He does exist? We believe because we believe.
This same question has been asked for zillions of years, and the answer will always be the same. He IS, and for this, I thank God

Answer 10

A bunch of frat buddies got together one day and had a few too many. One thing led to another and god was born.

Answer 11

Stephen J confuses "truth" with "manufactured bullshyte" responses....

No one can answer this, because they fear the true answer - that God came from the mind of men. The idea that God "always has existed" is senselesss...where and when has he always existed? Certainly, something cannot exist prior to its own creation!