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2007-01-08 17:48:46 · 12 answers · asked by ? 4 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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God has always been and forever shall be.
Question: "Who created God? Where did God come from?"

Answer: The atheist Bertrand Russell wrote in his book "Why I am Not a Christian" that if it is true that all things need a cause then God must also need a cause. He concluded from this that if God needed a cause then God was not God (and if God is not God then of course there is no God). This was basically a slightly more sophisticated form of the childlike question, "Who made God?" Even a child knows that things do not come from nothing, so if God is a "something" then He must have a cause as well, right?

The question is tricky because it sneaks in the false assumption that God came from somewhere and then asks where that might be. The answer is that the question does not even make sense. It is like asking, "What does blue smell like?" Blue is not in the category of things that have odor, so the question itself is flawed. In the same way, God is not in the category of things that are created, or come into existence, or are caused. God is uncaused and uncreated - He simply exists.

How do we know this? Well, we know that from nothing, nothing comes. So if there was ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence then nothing would have ever come to exist. But things do exist. Therefore, since there could never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been existing. That ever-existing thing is what we call God.

God is omnipotent and omniscient. He is an infinite not finite spiritual being. We too are spiritual beings inside our mortal bodies, however we will not reign with Him for all eternity, until we are changed by Him into infinite beings with spiritual bodies like His, to live for all eternity with Him in Heaven.

"The Lord God omnipotent reigneth." Rev. 19:6

2007-01-08 18:00:58 · answer #1 · answered by Jewel 3 · 1 0

“God never had a child, nor have there been any gods beside him. [Had there been any], each of them would have appropriated to himself what he created, and some would have overcome others.” (Quran 23:91)

This Quranic argument was paraphrased by some Muslims theologians in a way somewhat like the following:

The assumption that there are gods beside the one true God leads to false consequences and must therefore be false. If there is more than one god, then:

(a) if every detail of everything in the world was the result of the action of one of the gods, it cannot at the same time be the result of the action of another god. But if,

(b) some things in the world were created by some gods, and others by other gods, then each god would rule independently over what he created, which means that nothing in his world can even in principle, be influenced by anything outside it. But this contradicts the observed unity and interdependence of the world. And if that is impossible, then

(c) some gods will overcome others, but if that happens then the ones who are vanquished cannot be true gods. There can, therefore, be no more than one creator.

How does this creator create? Since He is self-sufficient, He cannot be said to depend on anything outside Himself in any actions, and cannot therefore be said to produce His effects the way natural causes do. But if He is not a natural cause, He must be a volitional agent. And since intention implies knowledge, and knowledge and intention imply life, he must be a living being. Since He is an eternal and everlasting being, all His attributes must reflect this quality; thus He must be not only knowing, but all-knowing, not only powerful, but all-powerful, etc.

2007-01-08 18:06:10 · answer #2 · answered by Aaber Osmani 2 · 0 0

With God came creation and before that there was no concept of time. Therefore the notion of God having a start doesnt arise since there was no concept of time before God created it.
God was, is and always shall be.

2007-01-08 17:55:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

man made that there is a "God" there is higher power though wether it be god or somthing else i have found a higher power within quatium physics b/c evrythings a wave and inevitably waves counteract with each other wich means they dont exist so evrything cancels it self out so there is nothing and there is evryhting so there has to be a higher power or a god

2007-01-08 18:08:42 · answer #4 · answered by jumanjisapikey 3 · 0 0

god has always been there, thats a very popular question, so i asked a pastor and he said that god has always remained and he created everything its a complicated thing to understand.

2007-01-08 17:53:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

His parents, the God before him.
Just as God, our Father, created us, and we will become Gods and Godesses one day if we are proven worthy in this life.

2007-01-08 17:52:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Who really knows, and who can swear,
How creation came, when or where!
Even gods came after creation's day,
Who really knows, who can truly say
When and how did creation start?
Did He do it? Or did He not?
Only He, up there, knows, maybe;
Or perhaps, not even He.

2007-01-08 17:52:30 · answer #7 · answered by danny's mom 3 · 0 0

Humankind created God, out of a need to explain what it could not understand (life) or accept (death).

2007-01-08 17:54:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

God is the Almighty, He is the creator himself. A creator needs no creator.

2007-01-09 03:50:57 · answer #9 · answered by keentoknow 2 · 0 0

in the name of Allah , the gracious , the merciful <> say , he is Allah, the one <> Allah , the independent and besought of all <> he begets not , nor is he begotten <> and there is none like unto him ..... Qur'an 112 : 1-5

2007-01-08 18:07:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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