If something has always been around, it was never created. It never had a beginning. How can god create something that has always been here. If you put god in the picture, then you must ask the next questions, where did god come from?
2007-01-07 14:56:58 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Maybe the big bang wasn't really a bang, just a new universe in an ocean of universe. Each with their own different laws of physics and nature.
2007-01-07 15:03:42 · update #1
He doesn't fit in. He was invented. Organised religion (two words that don't belong together) is the biggest scam perpetrated on mankind.
2007-01-07 15:00:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
The evidence suggests the Universe (our 3-D realm of galaxies out to about 10 billion or so light years) has not always been around. It started with a "big bang" 13.7 billion years ago. There may have been an existence "before" (if this preposition makes sense here) the Big Bang, but there seems to be no way of detecting such an existence.
However, this does not say that a God exists. The Universe could have started 13.7 billion years ago and still there be no God. In fact, the question you ask, "Where did God come from?" puts the existence of God in serious jeopardy. If we call whatever created God or brought it into existence as God-1, then where did God-1 come from? Perhaps from a God-2. Where did God-2 come from? This leads to an infinite regress. It does not stop here. Where did this infinite stack of Gods come from? Perhaps from a God-Omega. And that God came from God-Omega+1. and so forth without end. I am following the transfinite ordinal numbers of mathematics, and it is well known that there is no largest one. Therefore there can be no largest or ultimate God.
To me this suggests that there is no God.
2007-01-07 23:05:12 · answer #2 · answered by alnitaka 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So it's easier for you to say, the universe didn't have a beginning and difficult for you to say God didn't have a beginning? Doesn't this sound strange to you? Well no one believes the universe has always been, even evolutionists believe in the Big Bang.
The universe is a created thing with a beginning. All the laws if the universe came about with the creation of it. The laws of gravity and thermodynamics and the laws of entropy etc....all came about upon the creation of the universe. Considering nothing is bigger or more powerful than it's source....it leads us to the possible conclusion that God Himself is NOT subject to the laws of the universe. Therefore, time in the linear way we see it, is a property of this universe and God is not subject to it. God is not subject to the laws of time and space and therefore does not have to adhere to the "everything has a beginning" rule that is apparent in the created universe.
2007-01-07 23:07:28 · answer #3 · answered by sheepinarowboat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey I could probably argue agaist this but....even if the big bang theory turned out to be 100% accurate and everything began as a singularity which contained all of the matter of the universe in a single compressed point, someone haad to pull the trigger, something must have happened to the singularity to make it unstable, so it would one day burst out into the universe we know and live in. There is a place for a god there I am sure. The definition of god in my oppinion would have to be a cosmic non personal elemental function of the universe itself. But thats another question.
2007-01-07 23:10:23 · answer #4 · answered by VOEGELE 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evidence indicates that the universe that we now know did have a beginning about 15 billion years ago. The big bang, as it has become known, started the space-time continuum that we know as our universe.
However, that doesn't mean that this is the only universe or that somehow something occurred in a different way "before" the big bang. (Since time as we know it also began with the big bang, it is difficult to talk about "before" the big bang.)
This does not mean anything about a god. There is a gap in knowledge, but it is folly to fill it with a deity. Past experience has indicated that the "god of the gaps" is consistently shoved aside by scientific theory.
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2007-01-07 23:07:35 · answer #5 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ps.90:2 ''Before the mountains themselves were born,or you proceeded to bring forth as with labor pains the earth and the productive land, even from time indefinite to time indefinite you are God.''
Is that reasonable? Our minds cannot fully comprehend it. But that is not a sound reason for rejecting it. Consider examples:(1)Time. No one can point to a certain moment as the beginning of time. And it is a fact that, even though our lives end, time does not. We do not reject the idea of time because there are aspects of it that we do not fully comprehend . Rather, we regulate our lives by it.(2) Space. astronomers find no beginnining or end to space. The farther they probe into the universe, the more there is. They do not reject what evidence shows; many refer to space as being infinite. The same principle applies to the existence of God.
Other examples: (1) Astronomers tell us that the heat of the sun at its core is 27,000,000 degrees fahreheit (15,000,-000C.). Do we reject that idea because we cannot fully comprehend such intense heat? (2) They tell us that the size of our Milky way is so great that a beam of light traveling at over 186,000 miles per second (300,000 km/sec) would require 100,000 years to cross it. Do our minds really comprehend such a distance? Yet we accept it because scientific evidence supports it.
Which is more reasonable-that the universe is the product of a living, intelligent Creator? or that it must have arisen simply by chance from a nonliving source without intelligent direction? some persons adopt the latter viewpoint because to believe otherwise would mean that they would have to acknowledge the existence of a Creator whose qualities they cannot fully comprehend. But it is well known that scientist do not fully comprehend the functioning of the genes that are within living cells and that determine how these cells will grow. Nor do they fully understand the functioning of the human brain. Yet, who would deny that these exist? Should we really expect to understand everything about the universe, with its intricate design and stupendous size?
2007-01-07 23:45:57 · answer #6 · answered by prettymama 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Universe hasn't always been around. That's the whole point with the Big Bang. Science itself questions the idea of an eternal universe.
Too, there is the possiblility of things existing outside the universe. That's the sort of thing we just don't understand yet.
2007-01-07 23:00:20 · answer #7 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is one of those questions that we as humans are simply unable to understand and fathom. It gives you a little glimpse of how BIG God really is. God has always been around, just as the universe has. God has no beginning and no end, He just is. It can seem a little scary almost, but maybe that is one of those things I will understand better once I get to Heaven. : )
2007-01-07 23:10:51 · answer #8 · answered by Melody 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is a question we have all pondered..... for quite some time. maybe god does not exist, or god is the universe.
2007-01-07 23:01:22 · answer #9 · answered by unicow 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the imaginations of christians
2007-01-07 23:03:34 · answer #10 · answered by Nemesis 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋