What came before god?

Answer 1

There can be no "before God".

The answer is related to God's Aseity (Self-Existence).

Most classical theists see God’s Aseity or Pure Existence as a key attribute. The early Church Fathers, as well as Augustine (354-430), Anselm (1033- 1109), and Aquinas, continually cite the Bible in support of this position. In defending God’s self-existence (aseity) classical theists such as Aquinas are fond of citing Exodus 3:14 where God identifies himself to Moses as “I Am that I Am.” This they understand to refer to God as Pure Being or Existence.

God is Pure Actuality, with no potentiality in his being whatsoever. Whatever has potentiality (potency) needs to be actualized or effected by another. And since God is the ultimate Cause, there is nothing beyond him to actualize any potential (i.e., ability) he may have.

Nor can God actualize his own potential to exist, since this would mean he caused his own existence. But a self-caused being is impossible, since it cannot create itself. Something has to exist before it can do anything. Even God cannot lift himself into being by his own ontological bootstraps. Thus, God must be Pure Actuality in his Being.

Of course, God has the potential to create other things. But he cannot bring himself into being. He always was. And while God has the potential to do other things, he cannot be anything other than what he is. He has the power to create other things (active potency), but he does not have the power (passive potency) to exist in any other way than he does, namely, as an infinite, eternal, necessary, and simple Being.

God’s aseity means that he is Being; everything else merely has being. God is Pure Actuality; all other things have both actuality and potentiality. Thus, God cannot not exist. All creatures can be nonexistent. That is, they have the potentiality for nonexistence. Only God is a Necessary Being. All other beings are contingent.

Answer 2

There was never a beginning with God. He has always been. The problem with trying to determine what came before something else is that you will ultimately have to conclude that something had to come first in the first place. Other wise It creates some sort of paradox. Logic has to say that in the beginning it was God that created.

Answer 3

Nothing, God is God it is the beginning and then end. there is nothing before or after.

Answer 4

God has no beginning and no end (alpha and the omega). So therefore there was nothing before God. To complicated for humans to understand and I'm one of them.

Answer 5

You'll kill yourself wondering because then you'd wonder where what or who created god came from. The big boom was probably where it started with god.

Answer 6

I believe God was the beginning of all things.

Answer 7

One can drive themselves crazy even trying to concentrate on 'where did God and time start' because the question keeps repeating it's self, it's like asking what came before the alphabet A, there just is no answer, known for man to even comprehend between our two ears, as we know life, no rules applies here, beyond our wildest imaginations period!

Answer 8

he died got to old farther time has taken over god is in the after life

Answer 9

The answer is .....nothing.
Nothing is a specific and precise element.
God was alone.
He could have stayed that way.
However, He is a giving and generous individual and wished to share the gift of life.
Thus us.
He likes to give.

Answer 10

The evolution of the human beings who would come to invent religions.