It is said that there is an answer to this question.
It is also said that no man can understand it.
The fact is we try to capture God using the 5 senses we have been bestowed with. These are insufficient and crude tools(like painting the mona lisa with a . . i dont know maybe that rolly thing u paint walls with).
God is beyond all this . . . we can never understand him . .only experience him.
Say you have a pastry. I ask you how does it taste . .you say sweet.
You eat a spoonfull of sugar . .it still is sweet .. but I have no understanding of what sweet is unless I actually dump some sugar or preferably a pastry in my mouth.
God i what you experience and not what someone tells you He/She is . . .
2007-03-25 23:11:58
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answer #1
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answered by blogman 2
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And it's a good question. There is alot of emphasis on I AM in the Bible. I AM is a state of existance in an eternal NOW, where every thing that ever is, was, or will be, exists all at the same time. Perhaps that which we call God, has always existed, but as ideas go, that is one that we have a problem grasping, because we have finite minds with a beginning and end, where God does not. It's ok to believe in God, and wonder why or how, it doesn't mean that you're a hippocrite, only that you desire a closer understanding and relationship with the cosmos. The reason we have this idea of God in the first place, is because we wonder why or how. It's the great paradox, and unfortunately, one we have to rejoin the Wholeness to understand better. But there is nothing wrong with having a sense of wonder about it :)
2007-03-25 23:44:12
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answer #2
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answered by beatlefan 7
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In the name of Allaah Most Benefit Most Merciful
All praise be to Allaah the Lord of all worlds
May Allaah's peace and blessing be upon His prophet, his family and companions
The Universe is material, and as that, he must have a cause, and that cause has to have a cause...Can we go to the infinity? No, there is at least this reason-the Universe is at this time being 'stretched' (a fact prooved experimentally by Edwin Hubble, theoretically by Alexander Friedmann and Georges Lemaitre, and revelaed in the Qur'an - 41:47 ) so in the past the Universe was 'thicker'. If we follow this density in the past we must have a start. And that's the start of the Universe. No other matter could exist beside the universe, because universe is all matter together. So, we have the first conclusion: ALL MATTER HAS A BEGINING. Before the creation of the universe, time wouldn't ahve a sense, no role. According to the theory of relativity, time is connected to space (Lorentz transformation), so we can say that even time is created. Why? If the matter, space is created, time as a 'friend' of space must have been crated too. Although this sounds very strange, but the logic which lead us to the conclusion is OK, so the conclusion must be OK, too. We have a second conclusion: TIME IS CREATED. Now when we know that Allah/The God is not material (Allah/The God, may He be exalted isn't a part of the universe, that's so obvious), that means that Allah/The God swt existed for ever, He wasn't created. He existed always and will exist always.
SUMMARY: Allah/The God created the universe, means He swt existed before space and time. As before this universe, and we can say time aslo didn't exist, meas Allah/The God existed, even the time wasn't created. That means He swt wasn't born, He existed always, and is going to exist always.
Although, this looks a bit confusing, but the facts aren't really important, the logic is important to understand. I'll inhsaAllah, make my efforts to explain it better, if needed.
''Say: He is God, the One and Only; God, the Eternal, Absolute;He begetteth not, nor is He begotten; And there is none like unto Him.'' Qur'an - Al-Ikhlaas
And all praise be to Allaah the Lord of all worlds
And may Allaah’s blessing be upon His prophet Muhammad, his family and companions
2007-03-26 01:57:10
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answer #3
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answered by Hurricane 2
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When all of us say GOD, what do we mean who HE is? Is he a characterless, shapeless, formless supernatural being? NO, HE HAS a NAME!! His name is Jehovah (yahweh) which he reveals in his guidebook he wrote for humans, the Holy Scriptures (or what you may call the Bible). It is only logical to conclude (judging the present worldly conditions) that Jehovah would have thought of something when he did create the universe and all the matter and things in it. So, in the bible men long ago were inspired by his holy spirit to write down god as the one who is from time immemorial. In the very first verse of the very first chapter Genesis, god himself wrote "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." So it is only logical to assume that only Jehovah knows what was there before he created everything or how he himself came into existence. But for us incomprehensible humans, it would be more logical to conclude that over time, Jehovah would reveal more about him and his creations in the near future he has planned for peace-loving, morally upright and meek people who he would make reside on the earth. So, just saying 'i do believe in god' doesn't address the issue my friend. More is needed! You need to study the holy scriptures and fulfill what is required of humans TODAY and NOW.
ALL THE BEST!
2007-03-26 23:02:40
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answer #4
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answered by baL 2
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No offense in return, I think that God has always been here. We of course may have been here many times before Adam and Eve. So that we really don't know how many times the earth has had people walking around after God decided to place us here.
So that people could have been here before and screwed things up and God just kept re doing it and re doing it. I really don't know either as far as that goes, only God really knows for sure.
Some day we will know all the answers to every question that we ever had here on earth. God will make all the answers know to each of us. Until then I guess we just need to live our lives in the faith that we have and know that God is with us and always will be.
That is my feelings and I'm not attempting to push any one into believing any thing that they don't want to believe.
2007-03-25 23:15:21
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answer #5
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answered by Cindy 6
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No, this is not an "impossible question." The vastness of the universe is mind-boggling, the human mind will never be able to understand it. But we know it exists and is vast -- we cannot comprehend even our own galaxy never mind the billions of galaxies according to scientists' calculation. We know that nothing happens without a cause, so who caused the universe to exist? Answer: God-Creator, a being without beginning and without end -- eternal. Your problem is like an ant's problem --an ant wanting to understand the origin of man and the world. If we could fully understand God, then we would be gods ourselves, and I don't see us being able to create billions of galaxies. The unseen eternal Creator and the vastness of a created universe becomes a matter of belief and faith.
2007-03-25 23:26:53
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answer #6
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answered by ventureslimited06 1
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Here's a answer u were not expecting, Read the necronomica, Ur god may not be what he or she says she is. Personnally i'll probley live out eternity in a very hot place just because i don't need to have supernatural protection from what goes bump in the night. some think in the moment of the big bang god was ripped out of a nother multiverse and now he or she is here
2007-03-25 23:14:51
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answer #7
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answered by Anonymous
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I don't think we are meant to know about such things, such as where God came from (the human mind, maybe?); OR
how we began as a species;
who we were in our past lives;
whether we even had past lives;
what happens after we die;
is there a heaven, hell or reincarnation;
does God exist and is it male, female or an It;
whether there is one God or many Gods and Goddesses;
why we can't remember our own births; etc etc.
Some things are just so big that as a species, our tiny little minds have not evolved enough to be able to accept, or get past, any of these facts if we did know them. We are not meant to know the real truth of any of it, otherwise we would.
Also, we only use 10 percent of our brains currently. If we evolve enough to be able to use 90-100 percent we will probably have more of the answers to the above.
Personally I think our species needs to focus more on the here and now, and where we can go from here to the future, and improve things for everyone.
2007-03-25 23:15:10
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answer #8
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answered by feelingsense2002 2
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God, being all-sensible and not area of the naturalistic international we stay in transcends the opt for for reason-and-result. on account that God is exterior of time, count number number and potential, virtually each thing that makes up the actual universe we stay in, He does no longer could function lower than an same regulations of nature that nature does (as he's above nature...). i could also opt for to point that maximum human beings of wars aren't from now on led to by technique of religion, maximum being led to by technique of complicated, diverse causes, of which faith could or may no longer play a component. Even the crusades, that are frequently considered non secular wars have many different underlying causes, mutually with the decline of the Holy Roman Empire compared to the upward push of the Ottoman Empire, etc. it can be stupid to disclaim that faith has had no involvement in conflict, yet both stupid to propose that faith is the standard and underlying reason in maximum conflicts for the length of heritage.
2016-12-02 20:10:20
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answer #9
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answered by Anonymous
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3 things are eternal. God, Matter (maya) and we the souls. None of these 3 have the capacity to distroy the other. God is unique, because He has the power to change the form of matter. So He creates with the existing matter. So He keeps playing with the infinite matter, and infinite souls.
His main task is to make us realise our true identity. It is for this reason only that he has done the creation of the world in this form and our incarnation in our bodies.
2007-03-25 23:46:22
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answered by Vijay D 7
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