Where was God before he created heaven?

Question

Many religions stated God lived in heaven, where was he before he created heaven ??

Answer 1

Heaven is an extension of 'god' just as creation is.

Answer 2

Which heaven are talking about, The Bible speaks of three heavens.

Genesis 1
1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 1
8And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

2 Corinthians 12:2
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

The Bible never says anything about the creation of the third heaven.

Answer 3

God is everywhere. He is omnipresent. Heaven was created for man. God is in heaven as well as beyond heaven. He's in the universe as well as beyond the universe. He created the universe and heaven. As creator, he must be beyond both the universe and heaven. As creator of the universe He would have to be before the universe. But if He was only part of the universe, He couldn't be before the universe. Therefore, He must be beyond the universe. He is also before the universe.

Answer 4

This is a concept man cannot or will find difficult to grasp. God cannot be confined to a place as we are. God is existence itself. God is omnipresent. This means:

Omnipresence. God being simultaneously wherever he is, since he is present everywhere. The divine omnipresence is two fold, by nature and by grace.
By nature God is present in all things by essence, knowledge, and power. This is the presence of a cause in the things that share in God's goodness. By his essence, he is substantially in all things, including the created spiritual essences (angels, demons, human souls) as the immediate origin of their existence. By his knowledge, he exercises his wisdom directly in all creation down to the least details. By his power, he operates with divine activity as the First Cause of everything that creatures do. (See Psalm 139: 7-12)

By grace, God is further present in the souls in whom he dwells as in a temple. Hence the creature is joined, as it were, to God's substance, through the activity of mind and heart, by faith cleaving to the First Truth, and by charity to the First Good. He is therefore present by grace as the known is to the knower and the beloved is to the lover. This presence is more than a cause in an effect. It is the possession of God on earth similar to his being possessed by the angels and saints in heaven.


The heavens would be the universe. The Big Bang tells us that the universe is expanding. Before then there was an endless void. You are asking a question that is difficult to answer but let me tell you about creation to get a better concept of God.

God is spirit. He cannot be seen. If you were to examine all the creatures, the CREATOR has made a pattern emerges: angels and demons are intellectual creatures without a body; plants and animals do not have an intellect but a body and mortal soul. IT IS ONLY LIVING, HUMAN, BEINGS, that have a MIND, BODY, and SOUL. Only human beings have all three. Now, living, human, being is the existence of man. Those words describe the essence of man's mind, body, and soul. The Body is living, the Mind makes us human and distinguishing us from animals, and our Soul makes us the being that we become (good or evil).

Now, even Muslims will agree Allah is omnipotent (all powerful), omniscient (all knowing), and omnipresent (ever present). These words describe the existence of God. So, what is the essence of God? I will hold off answering this question till the end.

Now, if you think about the existence of a person they have a triple existence: physical (body), mental (mind), and spiritual (eternal soul). In fact, whenever we create something it has all three of these parts. When we cook we have a recipe (in our mind), we gather all the raw ingredients, and we cook (don't burn it, ha ha) what it is we are making. Cooking has the physical, mental, and spiritual parts. Same with engineering or technology it has three parts: the blueprints (to convey an idea), the raw materials (physical), and the workmanship (spiritual). If something goes wrong investigators will look for a design flaw, material flaw, or faulty workmanship. THIS DEMONSTRATES CREATION HAS THREE PARTS LIKE THE CREATOR.

Now, in the Bible it says Jesus is the visible likeness of the invisible God. (Colossians 1:15) The ESSENCE OF GOD IS: Father (mental), Son (physical), Holy Ghost (spiritual). ONE TRUE GOD IN THREE JUST LIKE A PERSON. THREE PARTS ONE PERSON. When you are sick you send for a doctor; when you are mentally troubled, a psychiatrist; when spiritually seeking you seek out a holy person.

Answer 5

John 1:1-5

In the beginning the Word already existed.
The Word was with God,
and the Word was God
He existed in the beginning with God
God created everything through him
and nothing was created except through him.
The Word gave life to everything that was created
and his life brought life to everyone .
The light shines in the darkness
and the darkness can never extinguish it.

In other words...I believe that there was heaven before God. If so much else was going on before God...there must have been a heaven there, too.

Answer 6

He is what scientist are just now discovering the invisible "dark matter that holds all things together. God is invisible and fills all time and space, then he created the heavens and manifested himself as the Christ. and then the physical world came.

Answer 7

God is not in heaven, you have to know that God is above the world and He's not surrounded by any of His creatures.

Answer 8

In the begining was the Word and the Word was God. God was not a place before He made it there was just Him

Answer 9

To a supernatural spirit being there is no "where". "Where" was created when the physical world was created. We live there. Before creation "God was".

Answer 10

God is Heaven, that's how big He is. All matter is His energy and is composed of static electricty. God can hear and see you at all times.