God is the uncaused cause of everything that exists. He is eternal with no beginning and end.
The subject of God's existence is called ontology. You can learn more here:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-ontology/
2007-03-08 07:05:55
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answer #1
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answered by Ask Mr. Religion 6
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But even if we think that someone else created God, this still implies the existence of an ultimate cause So actually no one objects to the idea of some ultimate cause-neither the proponents of the empiric school nor the students of spiritual science. Admitting an ultimate cause, therefore, we must ask this basic question of creation: was that original cause conscious or inert?
He has an eternal blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin and He is the prime cause of all causes.
2007-03-08 17:11:55
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answer #2
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answered by ? 7
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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.
2007-03-08 16:08:54
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answer #3
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answered by Preacher 4
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In order to be God you cant have a beginning or end. (If you have a creation, it will always be weaker than the creator) God doesnt have an origin because there is no one geater than God.
2007-03-08 15:04:39
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answer #4
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answered by ducky 2
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God does not have origin he's the origin of the beggining of times (the time we understand)!
2007-03-08 15:04:29
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answer #5
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answered by Not Of This World 3
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God was, God is, and God will always be! Don't try to figure Him out, just know that He is!
2007-03-08 15:02:31
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answer #6
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answered by Anonymous
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He came from the mind of pre-bronze age primitives who imagined themselves originating from beings greater and more powerful than themselves.
2007-03-08 15:05:38
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answer #7
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answered by Anonymous
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No one can answer the question and its been asked many, many times here. Of course, others dismiss creation, evolution and the big bang as unproven but have no "how we got here" answer either.
Anyway who GIVES you an answer is making it up...trust me.
PROUD
2007-03-08 14:58:21
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answer #8
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answered by Cheyenne 2
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He evolved from simpler deities like Yahweh and El.
2007-03-08 14:57:28
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answer #9
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answered by WWTSD? 5
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GOD always was, always is, Always will be.
GOD has no beginning or end.
Jesus was there.
2007-03-08 14:57:00
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answer #10
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answered by Tribble Macher 6
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