If God spoke the universe into existence, what was the pre-existing medium through which his speech (more)?

Question

was propogated?

Answer 1

I think your question is funny and clever.

Hmmm... well, if God is omnipresent, perhaps His speech was propogated through Himself?

Answer 2

Technically speaking, the Bible doesn't say God created the universe. It says, "in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." There may well have been a universe in which He created the heavens and the earth. Furthermore, it doesn't say that God "spoke" the universe into existence. If by creating the heavans and the earth we read that to mean he created the universe, he didn't necessarily speak it into existence. He just created it.

The earth he created was "formless and empty" -- strange verbiage there. He had created the earth, but it was formless? Does that mean it was a blob or something, undulating around - but isn't that itself a "form." Something "formless" is without form. Darkness was over the "surface of the deep." If the earth was "formless and empty" then what is the "deep" and where was its "surface?"

God hovered over "the waters." So, this formless and empty, and dark, earth had "waters."

It was then that he created light by saying "let there be light." He spoke LIGHT into existence, not the universe or the heavens and the earth.

Answer 3

That is a good question. According to Likkutei Amarim, the description of G-d's speech is not that of tangible words but this description of creation is allegorical. Speech is an external extension of one's will. Sound originates within the heart and mind of a person and then is manifested through speech, which once it leaves a persons mouth is then a seperate entity from the person who uttered it. Therefore, the speech of Genesis teaches us that when G-d spoke something into existance he simply manifested his will in a creature that perceives itself as seperate from the Creator.

For more info. on this I recommend reading the Tanya by Rav Schneur Zalman of Liadi.

Answer 4

Before the universe existed, there was no space or time. So if a God existed outside the universe, he would be non-existent.

Answer 5

Through the voice of Sandy Denny. God's voice is outside the boundaries of the space time continum.

If you aren't familar with Sandy Denny, and you like Joni Mitchell at all, you seriously need to check her out...also check out her work with fairport convention.

Answer 6

Well, there never was time God was not.There never will be time when He will not be. I do not have the knowledge of everything but I know the One who has. I rely on His wisdom. He is very patient with me, not like His creation. It is a mistake to assume that the partial record is false.

Answer 7

The Kingdom of GOD.
It is like Paralle Universe's.
The Kingdom of GOD is Invisible to us right now, it makes it Possible for Everything Else to Exist.

Answer 8

first of all, sweet avatar
secondly, i think that god lived on a whole nother plane of existance with angels and possibly even demons. but he lived in a great, if not perfect, existance, and he said that there was a blank spot of nothing in another dimension and breathed life into it.
seriously sometimes i hope i dont go to hell

Answer 9

Remember what that chick said about quantum physics yesterday.

We wouldn't understand even if he told us.

I would argue that we probably would and he should try stephen Hawking but hey, I'm just a silly atheist.

Answer 10

He was in another dimension. I guess there must be air or something of that nature in that dimension because there is mention of flames (oxygen) burning around the throne and creatures with wings flying.