Kinda curious. Can anyone comprehend no beginning for God?

Question

This may be a pointless question. I'm just curious of the answers.

Infinity means no end and we can comprehend that one.

Answer 1

I have no end because I have eternal life. God has no beginning or end because He has eternal life both ways.

Answer 2

i could choose for to think of i've got all started comprehending it, yet some might argue that i'm basically interior the middle ranges of comprehending it. in fact, some - very few human beings - are confident that I easily have comprehended it. There additionally exists a minority that thinks i've got no longer all started comprehending it in any respect. that's confusing to assert.

Answer 3

What you are referring to is the attribute of 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 4

Not really. It blows my mind just to think about it. I tried to wrap my mind around another infinite object once: TIME. Time has always existed, even before anyone classified it. It will ALWAYS exist, even after the earth is gone, and no one is left to measure it.
It's incredible. My mind can't comprehend it, though I can accept it.

Answer 5

I can grasp it, but it's kind of like trying to explain a quantum singularity; most can't comprehend it. We exist in four dimensions, God exist outside four dimensional space.

Answer 6

Can you comprehend no beginning of the universe. What then would there need to be a creator?

Answer 7

Sure. That is the concept: timeless. Different from eternal. Just completely outside the whole time-space continuum.

Answer 8

Why do we have to understand everything on the whole planet & whole Universe - the difference between experience and a PhD

Answer 9

Is that any more incomprehensible than infinity?