Where did God come from?

Question

Based on answers to my previous question, we know that their is a creator and a starting point.
"There has to be. look around"
Where is God from? What was he doing before he created the Universe? When was he created and who created him?

Please try to answer my question seriously. No sarcasm.

Answer 1

man made god, no sarcasm here.

Answer 2

I don't think God "came" from anywhere - he has always been here, and will always be here, even after this world is gone. Some might say he was a spaceman on a higher evolutionary scale than us, who found earth & decided to help us alon, some might say he's a figment of our imaginations, created by our own minds as the one to either blame everything on or even just rely on in times of need. I, however, believe God is eternal, without beginning or end, and will always be there for us.

Answer 3

Revelation 1:8 states:

"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "the one who is and who was and who is to come, the almighty."

Alpha is the fist letter of the Greek alphabet. Omega is the last letter.

God is revealing the truth that He (or She) is eternal. He has been here from before the beginning (the alpha) and will be here after the end (the omega).

God is also with us for every step along the way.

With love in Christ.

Answer 4

"Imagine, you close your eyes now:
Imagine the whole entire visibility of the Universe is gone from you.
This is the way HE was Born; in total darkness.
There was no light Anywhere.
Out of the...Universe of Darkness there sparked an Atom of Life.
That was once upon a Time; but don't ask me when it was.
How could that Atom of Life make a record of its own creation?
It could not write its own creation, the record of it, because He was the First.
There were no recorders around Him.
He was First to record His Own Self.
How long was that? We can't tell. We Weren't there.
He was the only One in the whole entire dark Universe.
He had to wait until the Atom of Life produced brains to think what He needed."

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Answer 5

The question cannot be answered by a christian.

Particularly the ones who hate people using such wooly logic to justyfy alternative theories - which christians themselves ask "ahhh but where did (whatever you belived created the universe) come from..

They actually have the gall to do this.

Answer 6

He is outside of our concept of time which is a property of our universe. He may have created and continue to create many universes of existence. He may do all kinds of things we have no need for knowledge of.

Where he came from is very perplexing to me. I have trouble believing that there is anything that has always been however as far as we are concerned he always has been.

Answer 7

The first statement in Genesis and in the Bible, is a statement about God. We see God revealing Himself. We see God making Himself known. In this opening statement there are 3 great truths about God that are declared. First we see:
A. The Existence of God
We are told that there is a God. At the very beginning the matter of ATHEISM (the belief that there is no God) is answered. Genesis 1:1, does not seek to prove the existence of God. It seeks to proclaim the existence of God. It does not argue the existence of God; it assumes the existence of God.


An atheist was once complaining to a Christian that Christians had all the holidays but atheists didn't have any. He said, “You have Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, National day of Prayer, and others.” The Christian said, “You do have a holiday. April Fool's Day.”
The natural assumption of the human heart and mind is that there is a God. It is unnatural to the heart and mind not to believe in a God. An atheist is someone who chooses to believe there is no God. He chooses to doubt the existence of God and deny the existence of God in spite of what his heart and head tells him. The atheist cries, “Prove to me there is a God.” I would say to the atheist, “Prove to me there is no God.” The atheist may proclaim that there is no God, but he cannot prove that there is no God. There is much proof that there is a God, but no proof that He does not exist. Atheism is a choice.
A Quaker and a rationalist were talking. The rationalist was explaining why he believed there was no God. He said, “My mind refuses to believe in that which no one has ever seen. No one has ever seen God thus there must not be a God.” The Quaker asked, “Hast thou ever seen Paris, France?” The rationalist replied, “No, but others have and that allows me to believe there is a place called Paris, France.” The Quaker said, “I think I am beginning to understand your reasoning. Hast thou ever seen thy brains?” “No.” “Hast thou ever met anyone who hast seen thy brains?” “No.” “Reckon thou hast any brains?”
Dwight D. Eisenhower said, “It takes no brains to be an atheist. Any stupid person can deny the existence of a super-natural power because man's physical senses cannot detect it. But there cannot be ignored the mystery of first life…or the marvelous order in which the universe moves about us. All of these evidence the handiwork of a beneficent Deity. For my part, that Deity is the God of the Bible, and Christ, His Son.”

B) The Eternalness of God
In this opening statement we not only have the answer to atheism, but we also have the answer to PANTHEISM (the belief that God is nature and in nature). We find a beginning but not a beginning of God. God is not nature for He was before nature. God existed before anything or anyone. We read in John 1:1: “In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God." It is hard for us to imagine something without a beginning. Yet, God had no beginning. Furthermore, He will have no end.
Isaiah 57:15, “For thus saith the high and lofty One That inhabiteth eternity.”

Psalm 90:2, "Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God."
God has ever existed and will always exist. He is the Eternal God.

C) The Exclusiveness of God
We not only see that Atheism and Pantheism is answered in the opening statement of the Bible, but also POLYTHEISM (the belief that there is more than one God). Genesis 1:1, declares that there was a time when there was nothing but God. He was not one among many gods; He was the only God. There was nothing else and there was no one else. If there is more than one god, then the God of the Bible had to create them. Yet, no where do we read in the Bible that God ever created other gods. The many gods of this world were created by man, not by God. We read in Deuteronomy 4:35, �%9 o thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.”
Man has made gods out of the sun, moon, stars, trees, rivers, and almost all of creation. They have imagined and designed gods of wood, stone, and marble. Yet there is only one God, and He is the Lord God of Genesis 1:1.

Answer 8

Why can you not understand that God himself said he had no beginning.
He created time, and space. All we know and understand and a lot more that we do not, was created by him.
He is a spirit, living and powerful. A spirit has no material body, therefore is not subject to our laws.
Yet, since spirits exist and can subject us to their suggestions, we have to make decisions about what not to do etc.

Answer 9

If anyone knew where God came from. would you believe them or not? If ones says in cam from the depths of space, where no one could travel.
Would you believe it? If ones says he walks among us, but yet is hidden from our view. Would you believe it?
If God existed, before existence came into play. Would you believe it? If it was God was life himself, would you believe it. Why does God have to come from anywhere? things exist without others knowing. So why couldn't God exist, before, anything. Why does God have to porve anything to anybody, If God told you himself, would you believe him?

Answer 10

God has always existed. There was no "starting point." He is the creator, not the created.

I don't know what he was doing before making the universe...or us...but perhaps I will find out when I get to Heaven...

Hope to see you there!

Answer 11

God came from the anti-God in the other universe