How did it all start? How did man come to be?

Question

How did man come to be? If you believe god put us here then who put god where he is. If you believe evolution created us then how did that start. How did the first Organism come to be? How did the universe start?

If your answer is the BIG BANG then what caused it? And as for God, he didn't just appear, how did he come to be?

Answer 1

God exists as the Uncaused Cause. What is the cause of all needs no cause. For in God the means and the end pre-exist in the cause as willed together. A human's will looks to a desired end and what may be done to reach that goal. God’s will causes both the end willed and the means to that end. And since all things pre-exist in the First Cause (God’s will), there is no cause for God’s will.

Your question 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.

As an omnipotent being, God spoke all that exists into existence.

Answer 2

That's the million dollar question. I do believe evolution is functional b/c so many creatures have traits that don't belong to their current environment. The whale for instances has legs within its skelton, but does not walk anywhere, reminats for its ancestors that are still going away slowly. Evolution is not as complicated as you think either. There are only two factors. Desent with modification, and natural selection. Which basically means. Features that work best for survival, and what the opposite sex finds attractive. So, EVOLUATION to me seems like a big part of it. But, my faith causes me to think that God made an automated system so He can deal with the other worlds in the Universe. The creation of God, well, something starts somewhere. So, there had to be a beginning. This is one of those things. You cannot explain to a cockroach why you like a certain aspects of existence. So, you cannot expect an answer from the Almighty with the same regard. The orgasim is simply for this reason. If sex was not pleasurable there would never be any off spring, and there for no survival of the species, which kisses my automated system idea good bye.

If you ever find an answer, I will pay you.

Answer 3

The beginning of man is the creation of God for a man.

Nobody created God or made God or put God into existence. Remember the word "God has no beginning and end. and God said I am the alpha and Omega,meaning the first and the end.

The first organism is also creation of God.

The universe start or begin when God created heaven and earth.

I don't believe that I came from the monkey or apes because I do not look like a monkey but as a man with sound mind and body, with heart and sould to know what is bad or worng.
jtm

Answer 4

We can only partially comprehend the notion of God's existence. To do so, we must use human concepts to speak of God: "without beginning or end"; "eternal"; "infinite", etc. The Bible says that He has always existed: " . . . even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God" (Psalm 90:2). And, "Your throne is established from of old; Thou art from everlasting" (Psalm 93:2). Quite simply, God has no beginning and no end. So, where did God come from? He didn't. He always was.
To us, the notion of time is linear. One second follows the next, one minute is after another. We get older, not younger and we cannot repeat the minutes that have passed us by. We have all seen the time lines on charts: early time is on the left and later time is on the right. We see nations, people's lives, and plans mapped out on straight lines from left to right. We see a beginning and an end. But God is "beyond the chart." He has no beginning or end. He simply has always been.
Also, physics has shown that time is a property that is the result of the existence of matter. Time exists when matter exists. Time has even been called the fourth dimension. But God is not matter. In fact, God created matter. He created the universe. So, time began when God created the universe. Before that, God was simply existing and time had no meaning (except conceptually), no relation to Him. Therefore, to ask where God came from is to ask a question that cannot really be applied to God in the first place. Because time has no meaning with God in relation to who He is, eternity is also not something that can be absolutely related to God. God is even beyond eternity.
Eternity is a term that we finite creatures use to express the concept of something that has no end -- and/or no beginning. Since God has no beginning or end, He has no beginning. This is because He is outside of time.

Answer 5

I believe that all we need to know right now is in the Bible. If we needed to know where God came from, that little factoid would be there.

It says that God had no beginning and no end.

If you take that to modern day science, perhaps God lives outside the realm of time. This is theoretically possible, so it very well could be. That would also explain how God knows the outcome. He can "peek" into the time controlled world at any point He chooses and SEE what is happening.

Answer 6

The universe began with the big bang. Nine billion years later, the earth formed. It is not known how life first began; it is known that it did not take a very long time to get started, and after that, evolution took over. For details, see;

Answer 7

based on my limited understanding of the universe, the idea that something comes from nothing is ludicrous. it is a contradiction to the law of physics which states matter can neither be created nor destroyed in the universe. therefore, all the matter that exists in the universe has always existed. the best way to think about the matter in the universe, is to think of it like a line which extends forever in both directions. there is no beginning and there is no end. on the subject of life, i've had it explained to me biologists, but i wouldn't be doing justice to explain it myself. i respect their research on the issue more than i buy into the story that a lifeform which has always existed and is not bound by the laws of physics created the universe from nothing.

Answer 8

Man has a beginning and thus requires a cause. He was created by God. God by definition is the uncreated. He has always existed and is eternal. An eternal being has no beginning and requires no cause.

Answer 9

I don't think the Bible is wrong but I think there is a mystery about it .The book of Genesis does not go out to teach science,but if it did not have a beginning it would be like a sword without a handle.Can you imagine the Bible trying to tell man about physics or biology in the year 600BC?
If we want to have answers to science,we have to look up a science book not a book of moral science.

Answer 10

there were these two gigantic magnets...

There are actually two planes of existence.
One is the physical where the laws of physics rule.
One is the spiritual where the laws are not the same, and are, in fact, sometimes opposite the physical laws, or outside of it. This is where you have instances of people being in two places at once or people levitating, etc etc. In such a world, it is plausible that the opposite is true. That is: there is no need for matter and energy to react with one another in order for there to be an effect to be seen. People are working on a unifying law, however, we are limited by our mortality.