If God has always existed, then why couldn't the Universe have always existed (in some form or another)?

Answer 1

The universe could have always existed, without God.

Answer 2

the second law of thermodynamics is reference to
entropy, meaning there will always be rearrangements
of a systems appearance, the disorder leaves the whole
system subject to high entropy, yet the system is unchanged,
i do not see where the universe is running
down to suggest an end hence there must be a beginning,
with the first law is the conservation of energy, low entropy;
the second
refers to change without the gross of the system changing,
energy i would suggest is moved from one point to another,
spreading the gas molecules and achieving a higher entropy,
and also the second law suggest that entropy is but a statistic
and not a inviolable process of nature as well as saying a
low end entropy may also occur, having said all that i would
say the universe has always been, a cosmic thought process
that we may never know the true beginnings.

It has been awhile so
feel free
to correct any incorrect
statements i may have exposed,
I've gOt blisters on my brain !!

Answer 3

I guess that would depend on how you define existance and the nature of the universe. (ontology time!) It could be argued that everything has always existed on a transcendant level and is only trackable once it is placed into the categorical. In other words, maybe God had always "thought of" the universe and only created it in dimensional space at a specific point.

Answer 4

As first responder noted, the universe could have always existed without god, and on the evidence, the question of god is simply irrelevant. But the evidence is conclusive that the universe has not always existed, but began with the big bang some 13.6 billion years ago.

Answer 5

According to the second law of thermodynamics, the universe is running out of usable energy. But if the universe is running down, it cannot be eternal.....While you can never run out of an unlimited amount of energy, it does not take forever to run out of a limited amount of energy. So, the universe had to have a beginning. (Because it has an ending).

If the universe had a beginning, there must have been a cause.
What caused the universe?....God caused it.

If you say, what caused God, the answer is that God had no beginning, therefore, had no cause; he just was.

Answer 6

Its a good point - the way I think Carl Sagan phrased it was 'well where did God come from?' and if the theist is going to say 'thats an unanswerable question.' then why not save a step and say that how the universe began is an unanswerable question!

I fail to see why God is always immune to logic in christian arguments - 'everything had a creator, therefore god exists' - so who created god?

Answer 7

I dont quite understand that question, but God has existed from eternity past and forever on. Everything was created by his word. things seen were created by the things that aren't seen and everything was created by his words.

P.S this social system of the world we live in was not the first. that's why in genesis 1:2 it says the earth was without form and void and there was darkness. that means that something big happened before and darkness is usually a sign of sin and judgement.

Answer 8

God created the universe. Then, the earth and everything in/on it. Everything that you see was created by nature (Him) or by someone(which He created to work on earth). So, it is by HIm and so was the universe to start out.

Here's how it went,

Genesis 1
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

Answer 9

Ask a physicist. The answer is long, involved, and mathematical. But basically, it's accellerating away from a single point some 12.5 billion years ago. The Universe can't be 'bouncing' because it is travelling too fast to ever collapse again.

Answer 10

Because God created the universe and everything we know of, that includes you.