I mean, has He been here forever? Before He created the Universe, the world, and Heaven, where did He live? In nothingness??? Is that why He created us? And there is that question, why did He create humans? Was he bored and just wanted something to do?
2007-02-26 05:49:50 · 23 answers · asked by Stacy 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God had no beginning. He always existed and always will exist. He created man for fellowship. Man is a unique creation from all other creations. He was created in God's image and God's likeness. No other created being can say that. The purpose of this special creation is, first, an expression of ultimate love in giving us the breath of God and second, an expression of ultimate unity in giving us a unique position (Fellowship with the Almighty). The Word indicates that creation (animals etc) "talk" to God but that is not the same as FELLOWSHIP. Fellowship indicates the ability to be on "common ground" in sharing - give and take of intellect, emotions, purpose, goals etc. Not that man can ever be equally on par with God, for His thoughts and ways are higher than ours (as the heavens above the earth). But He chooses to commune in fellowship with a triune being made like Him. Man - body, soul, and spirit; God - Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. It is an amazing and awesome thing to be able to "commune" with God. People reject this invitation, make fun of it, refuse to believe it, but it is open to anyone who wishes to receive God's gift of Himself in Christ. Then communion is restored and the soul "elevated" into His Presence.
2007-02-26 06:12:38 · answer #1 · answered by wd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We must understand the nature of how God and time exist.
God exists outside the notion of time and the universe is contingent on God's expression for its existence. God is timeless, in that he sees the passage of temporal time as you or I see a range of mountains far in the distance. At this distance the range of mountains seems to be one continuous line, yet as we get closer we see then mountains separated by miles and miles. God sees everything in the "eternal now". Hence, time di not and does not "pass" for God. Before God there was no concept of linear time.
So God knows all that you will do. But that does not mean you don't have Free Will. If I stand atop a building and watch two cars coming around opposite corners and know that they will hit one another, just because they do indeed crash, does not mean that I caused the accident or that the drivers did not act on their own.
Like the observer of the auto crash above, God knows what choices you will ultimately make in a given circumstance. Moreover, God may have acted to bring about these choices just a parent may do by providing a loving environment, shelter, education, counsel, and other of life's opportunities. Just because our parents laid out the tools for us, we are free to choose the paths we will take using these tools. God's behavior here is a form of determinism but not predestination since the predestination term implies that God has actually determined (rather than seen) in advance the destiny of creatures.
God created the universe as an expression of love and His desire to commune with his creatures.
2007-02-26 06:08:50 · answer #2 · answered by Ask Mr. Religion 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Urf "Any data show GOD exists in this planet longer than individual?" answer - The God is one. Is Absolute. not begetteth nor begotten. there is none like unto him. consequently, God isn't created nor God is developed from any. As such, God is previous length (e.i previous time and area or previous E=mc2. ) result – None can visualize God nor can end / replace prefixed results of a chain. each and every sequence would be accompanied by skill of the subsequent till dooms day. And So, God is the writer. MOHAMMED TAREK
2016-10-16 13:03:58 · answer #3 · answered by arleta 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wise ancient people realized that they could obtain power and money by declaring themselves the middle-man between the masses and a man who lives in a cloud. The faiths hide the fact that during the times of Egyptian Culture, God was always considered to be a woman, called goddess. Religion takes in billions a year in donations and you are not supposed to ask why God never shows up.
2007-02-26 06:01:33 · answer #4 · answered by liberty11235 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ha, ha, ha.......I am going to love the answers you will get on this. Something like God always existed. But then why would God create time? Because time means nothing to him, but time means everything to us. Why would God create us and then demand that we love and worship him and ensure we are not perfect and will have problems? Is that so that God can have beings that kiss his butt and problems for him to solve? Just seems like a stupid science experiment to me, if God created us. What was he hoping? He created us on the earth to die to go to heaven only if we believe in him, but the trick is that he is never going to show his face or anything else, but you must believe in him. It is just a farce.
2007-02-26 05:56:45 · answer #5 · answered by corona001500 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is another theory opposed to the Big Bang and that is, the Steady state theory which states: The steady state theory asserts that although the universe is expanding, it nevertheless does not change its look over time (the perfect cosmological principle); it has no beginning and no end. If there is no beginning or there is no end, then the God as we know God to be, had no beginning and has no end.
2007-02-26 05:58:03 · answer #6 · answered by MoPleasure4U 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God isn't a created thing. Since, God is not inside time he isn't bound by it. He is infinite. No one knows why he created us or where or what He did before He made the universe.
2007-02-26 06:01:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's the first question I will ask when I die. You can't get something out of nothing and I've always wondered where the very beginning came from. Whether you believe in God or not, no one can says for sure where the first little particle of whatever came from.
2007-02-26 05:54:00 · answer #8 · answered by Melissa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think so.
And then i think that we got bored in heaven, and went to god and he created the world and life and all of this so his angels could have something to do to pass the time.
But people have gone crazy contimplating this
2007-02-26 06:01:33 · answer #9 · answered by danksprite420 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the Quran, Allah tells us that He is the only creator and sustainer of all that exists and that nothing and no one exists alongside Him, nor does He have any partners. He tells us that He is not created, nor is He like His creation in anyway. He calls Himself by a number of names and three of them are:
A) The First - (Al-Awal)
B) The Last - (Al Akhir)
C) The Eternal, who is sought after by His creation, while He has no need from them at all. (As-Samad)
He always has existed and He never was created, as He is not like His creation, nor similar to it, in any way.
2007-02-26 06:11:33 · answer #10 · answered by BeHappy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋