So, if God created the universe, how did God come to be?

Question

Obviously, people have a hard time believing something could have existed without some reason for its creation, so what created God? Did He spend an eternity in darkness and just get lonely? Personally, this little issue seems to be the largest hole in any religion. It creates a paradox to which there is no end. Of course, this could also be applied to science's Big Bang Theory. What would cause that big bang? Once again, we prove that mankind's desire to explain that everything has a creator fails because it would go back an eternity and never have a true source.

I guess my whole point is that if you believe there is a creator for everything, how can you believe in that creator without there being a creation of the creator?

To those whom accuse me of lacking in faith, perhaps it is you who lack in free-thinking. Instead of questioning the world, which is how answers come to be, you trust what you're fed. Break the cycle and be free.

I find it humourous how the entire point was ignored by so many. The belief of God exists because we need an eplaination of how we exist, along with everything else, yet it fails to explain anything at all. Science does follow the same pattern, trying to explain the creation of the universe. If the patterns are so similar, why bother choosing one? They both accomplish the same thing with as much proof as the other without truly explaining more than recent events in the scope of eternity. Why would religion be any better than science, or science any better than religion? No, I'm not going to go insane with trying to figure it out, I've figured out all I need to. Life needs no explaination. It is what it is and having a method of creation will not change what it is.

Answer 1

That partially why I became an atheist, because no one of faith could tell me how god came to be.

Why does "always have been and always will be" only apply to god(s)?

Why cant the universe just "always have been and always will be"?

What if a non-all-knowing god created the big bang and wanted to see what course his creation would take before he annihalated it to start again?

What if we're living a life that is similar to that humans had in the movie "The Matrix"? What if we're living in a fake world?

There's an infinite number of possibilites of how we came into existence and chances are we'll never find out, but as long as religion holds us back we'll never get any closer to the answer.

Answer 2

Maybe with time you will come to understand the concept of eternal, but in the belief that God created everything, God is eternal, and had no beginning. EDIT: Okay, how about instead of just saying what I did above, I'll give you a full answer and argument as to why something must be Eternal. Using categorical syllogisms you will learn should you take a logic or philosophy class you will come up with four possible outcomes for the question "What is Eternal?" Those four are, All is Eternal, Some is Eternal, Some is Not Eternal, and None is Eternal. It's so far impossible to prove that All or Some is Eternal, so let's start with None is Eternal. This is how the argument plays out. None is Eternal. .: All is Temporal. .: All had a Beginning. .: All came into being. .: All came into being from non being. Being cannot come from non being as it violates the Laws of Reason. .: None is Eternal is false. Something has to be eternal. Which means, it or all of it did not have a beginning, and will not have an end. To Christians, that it is God. God is eternal, and did not have a beginning. The only thing that can help you now is for you to try to grasp the concept of eternity, that when something is eternal, you cannot ask the question, "Where did it come from?" as it always was. I hope that helped :)

Answer 3

If God had been created, He wouldn't be God. It's not something we completely fathom because eternity is not something we have a picture of here on earth. God is more scientific than the Big Bang. The Big Bang doesn't provide for origins (like you said) and it says things get more complex and progressive as time goes on. This has not proven true in science. If you leave a pile of compost and gloop for 10 years, you won't come back to find a complex society of evolving reptiles. There are no missing links. The only explanations for existence are evolution and creation. Since evolution is full of holes, creation is the only one left. Upon examination, it stands for itself. They just have a hard time believing that there is a God that exists that they can't scientifically explain and replicate in a laboratory.

Answer 4

It all Comes down to being Human, It's not a hole in Religion its a Hole in understanding.
as humans we are ingrained general human perception.
we know that all things that Begin, end, and all things that live, die.

we also think it makes sense to apply these ideas to God. (even Christians Do this)

God made all detentions all limits every aspect of the physical world (science proves the UniVerse was created, many will deny this, they just don't know the science behind it.)
there for sense God created us with limits, and understanding, he also created the Universe with limits, God is outside of time, and space and therefor Might not have needed a beginning and will never have and end.

you can't Bind God to human preception.

Answer 5

Logically there has to be a beginning of everything right? Can we point to the beginning of time? Can we point to the beginning of the universe, as in where it begins? No we can't, because maybe our human brain isn't all that "logical" after all. Because presented with the concept of a God without beginning or end we try to apply our own logic to the concept so that we can understand him. It doesn't work. Maybe true logic isn't in trying to make things we can't understand, fit, but in faith which says that if God is then he has made himself known to us. He has. The creator God makes himself known in his creation, and as our savior he makes himself known to us in Jesus Christ.

Answer 6

Your assuming Eternity needs a True Source. Our Temporal minds can never truly comprehend Eternity. Our limited understanding demands that there be a Beginning and an End to everything, however Christ said "I am the beginning and the end." How can we really understand what that means. That's why there's Faith.

Answer 7

Personally I enjoy these paradoxes. After all, what's the point of having an understandable God? That would suck and be boring.

Answer 8

This is the ultimate question for a christian! When my christian friends tried to convert me from my beliefs to their beliefs, i asked this exact question and they couldn't/wouldn't give me a straight answer. I laughed at the irony of them saying my belief wasn't real and it turned out their's isn't either! Get it? I do! lol
This is a good question non-the-less.

Answer 9

thats a good question that i have been askin myself and people around me all my life and i still dont know da answer to that. i believe in God but im a science person and da fact that it is such a paradox drives me crazy!

Answer 10

It is not for us to understand.

Ask that when you die.

You can ask yourself that all day who created the matter who created th energy for the big bang it goes far back.

Only thing I know is the end number you'll get is #1 which is God
''God is one''

Remeber that the number 0 doesn't exist 0= nothing