Do you believe the universe always existed? Or if not what has always existed?

Question

It's either one or the other, how can there be another option?

Answer 1

Because of time, everything that exist within time must have a beginning and an end. Our lives has a beginning and an end (from the time we are born to the time we die). Even time itself has a beginning and an end (from creation to the end of the world).

But God exist outside of time therefore he doesn't have a beginning or an end (he is eternal).

Everything that has a beginning must have something before it to make it begin. Who else but God can make time or the universe begin?

Because God doesn't have a beginning, he doesn't need anyone or anything to make him begin (he has always been, now is and always will be God of the universe).

Answer 2

You assume a lot when you as a question like that. And some of the answers fall into that trap. We use words like "always" and "existence" as if we had a clear idea what they mean - or a clear notion of what their opposites mean.

Let's say I asked; "What's north of the North Pole?" You might get the impression that I don't understand the concept (or convention) of "north." The same applies to the underlying concept we think of as "time," which in turn defines the fuzzier notion of "always." Is the "before" of our daily existence a physical necessity, or is it a convention arising out of our confinement to a universe that has only some tens of billions of years of "before" as we know it.

It's our arrogance that allows to say that: "It's logical that the universe had to start sometime." It's arrogant AND narcissistic to then assume this was done by an entity for whom we are the central creation.

We know a little more about the Big Bang than we did 5 years ago. We have suspicions that THE universe may in fact just be just ANOTHER universe. Every day we scratch a little of the surface of the great riddle. But even if we disappear altogether, or never get an inch closer, we will never be justified in filling the gaps in knowledge with nonsensical myths.

Answer 3

I believe that there was a beginning of the current universe as we know it know. Science attempts to figure out how old the universe is, based on their best guesstimates. Only faith or religion can help explain why the universe exists, since there is no way to tell if something came before the "Big Bang". What caused the "Big Bang" and what will happen in the future is another thing that we can't explain or understand and that is what religions try to do is fill in the gaps/void of what we can discover and that which we can not.

Answer 4

If you believe in science you can't belive the universe always existed. It had to have a beginning. Science in no way can account for how the universe started. If they say is was formed from gases, where did the gas come from? It is very unscientific to say the gas always existed. Where did that first molecue come from? Good question. I don't have the slightest proof of where it could have come from but something I do have called "Faith" tells me a being named God created it. Until you can come up with a better answer then that is what I will go on believeing. So for the second part of your question I believe the only thing that has always existed is "GOD". It is my faith that leads me to believe it and that's until it can be proven otherwise.

Answer 5

Time and Change has always existed. I also believe that the Universe has always existed, although sometimes it is easy for humans (who have a begining and an end) to believe that other things like the universe also have a begining.

Answer 6

God has always existed, but the universe had a beginning(the Big Bang). God created the universe. The Second Law of Thermodynamics demands that the universe disintegrate. www.reasons.org

Answer 7

Time (as we understand it), space and matter are all created by God. He is the only transcendent one who is eternally existent in the past... humans will all live eternally with the Lord, or in Hell depending on if they have saving faith in Christ Jesus (or the lack thereof).

Answer 8

The fact that the universe is constantly expanding indicates that it did not exist forever because then it would have already fully expanded by now.

Answer 9

I believe that for which revelation has been given, that "in the beginning, God" (Genesis 1:1) Anything else is dubious guesswork.

Answer 10

I "believe" it expands and collapses on itself over and over destroying everything and then starts to expand again. Belief and knowing are two different things though