If God has been here forever, never created..?

Question

just think of all that time before he created us. What was he doing all that time? And when did forever start

Answer 1

Yes, God had a lot of time before he created us.

Look at Luke 14:28. It states: "For example, who of YOU that wants to build a tower does not first sit down and calculate the expense, to see if he has enough to complete it?"

God had to think about what he was going to create, how, with what qualities, with what mental capacity, etc.

And before he created us, he created the spirit creatures (angels) in heaven with him. And that includes Jesus! At Colossians 1:15 it states: "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation."

So Jesus was created first, and helped God create the things on the earth, including man. (Proverbs 8:22-31).

As for when forever started, no one but God would be able to answer that one. But such a question would only make one crazy trying to figure it out :-)

I really hoped this helped you!

Answer 2

First of all God has no beginning and no end... He is immortal, meaning can't die or be killed by anyone else... He is the Creator of everything (exception to Satan cause he chose that path himself, by wanting the worship that only should have been directed to God).

Did God have a beginning?

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 beginning or end to space. The farther they probe into the universe, the more there is. They do not reject what the 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 Fahrenheit (15,000,000° C.). 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 scientists 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 a Person who is so great that he could bring into existence the universe, with all its intricate design and stupendous size?

Answer 3

ponder this thought,

Before God created the heavens and earth, He knew us. Therefore we could have walked and talked with Him before the creation of the heavens and earth.

Scripture tells us, "He knew us before we were in our mother's womb".. "He knows every hair upon our head"...

This could be why some as a child, came to Him upon Him calling out their names. They recognized His voice. It just took some longer into their adulthood to recognize the voice of God calling out their names.

Forever started with God, for He is the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End.

Answer 4

Forever is forever, it has no start,nor end.God did
not tell what He was doing but that fact that the universe is endless suggests to me,God was creating all that.

Answer 5

It's really stupid, isn't it? Remember, this whole thing was made up by a bunch of illiterate semi-nomadic Semitic goat herders who lived more than 2000 years ago.

Their ignorance is excusable. Such stupidity in 2007 is inexcusable.

Answer 6

We don't know, but it is a mind-boggling question.

Answer 7

Maybe there were other creatures before us!

Answer 8

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