ive always wondered where did God come from? again i am a believer! and dont get caught up in the "evolution" "big bang theory" but have always wondered this since a child any EDUCATED answers out there?
2007-04-23 15:02:35 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
AGAIN ,I SAID EDUCATED
2007-04-23 15:06:27 · update #1
There is no answer and that is what makes all things a miracle, to me. It's like asking if the universe has an end, and if it does, what is it inside of. etc. And if it doesn't have an end, how can that be.
2007-04-23 15:06:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Good question. Keep seeking an 'educated' answer, but be aware that there isn't really a satisfactory answer. You can take the 'by definition' approach and just say that "God is that which has always existed". But that doesn't really tell us what "God" is. It's like Euclid's axioms for geometry in which points and lines are undefined terms that are only defined via the axioms that tell the fundamental relationships between them. You might think you understand what a line is, and then later discover that a line might be something very different and still result in a consistent (non-euclidean) geometry. If God is that which has always existed, then maybe God is just the fabric of the universe including all of the laws of physics. After all, "that which has always existed" doesn't by itself imply intelligence. You can add the axiom "God is intelligent", and another axiom "God created the universe", and move a couple tiny steps closer to the accepted Biblical notion of God, yet there are still many possible forms for "God" in which the Bible is irrelevant, and just a myth. The problem is that we have no objective way to test these axioms, so we will never know which are correct. Many people claim that they can test the axioms based upon the spiritual feelings they have, but these feelings are only proof of feelings, and not proof of the nature of God.
In the end, if you are sure you are a believer, you have to decide what specific axioms you take on faith, and those you will allow to remain uncertain. The range covers Deism on one end, and fundamentalist Christianity & Islam on the other end. The territory between these ends is vast, and only you can decide where you reside in that territory.
2007-04-23 22:23:44 · answer #2 · answered by Jim L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The atheist Bertrand Russell wrote in his book "Why I am Not a Christian" that if it is true that all things need a cause then God must also need a cause. He concluded from this that if God needed a cause then God was not God (and if God is not God then of course there is no God). This was basically a slightly more sophisticated form of the childlike question, "Who made God?" Even a child knows that things do not come from nothing, so if God is a "something" then He must have a cause as well, right?
The question is tricky because it sneaks in the false assumption that God came from somewhere and then asks where that might be. The answer is that the question does not even make sense. It is like asking, "What does blue smell like?" Blue is not in the category of things that have odor, so the question itself is flawed. In the same way, God is not in the category of things that are created, or come into existence, or are caused. God is uncaused and uncreated - He simply exists.
How do we know this? Well, we know that from nothing, nothing comes. So if there was ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence then nothing would have ever come to exist. But things do exist. Therefore, since there could never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been existing. That ever-existing thing is what we call God.
Recommended Resource: Knowing God by J.I. Packer.
2007-04-23 22:14:29 · answer #3 · answered by Freedom 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not offended my 10yr old asks me this question:
I tell her that God is always here. He just is.
But I'll give you a more "grown up answer". I did a web search and hope this will help. I am not taking credit for this answer. I'll provide the link.
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The question is tricky because it sneaks in the false assumption that God came from somewhere and then asks where that might be. The answer is that the question does not even make sense. It is like asking, "What does blue smell like?" Blue is not in the category of things that have odor, so the question itself is flawed. In the same way, God is not in the category of things that are created, or come into existence, or are caused. God is uncaused and uncreated - He simply exists.
How do we know this? Well, we know that from nothing, nothing comes. So if there was ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence then nothing would have ever come to exist. But things do exist. Therefore, since there could never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been existing. That ever-existing thing is what we call God.
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I hope this helps. Faith is just believing. That is what makes you so special about being a believer. You just believe.
God bless.
2007-04-23 22:14:05 · answer #4 · answered by Faith 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God is the eternal one that has always existed and always will - Deuteronomy 33:27
Psalms 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.
Rev. 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which WAS, and which is to come, the Almighty.
2007-04-23 22:26:44 · answer #5 · answered by wdjd 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your not going to get a satisfactory answer for this question. Its difficult for the finite human mind to comprehend the infinite God. God doesn't come from anywhere. He always was. Its mind boggling but that's just the way it is.
2007-04-23 23:08:54 · answer #6 · answered by arikinder 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always believed that 'God' is a planet, the star in the sky a spaceship and Mary impreganated by an alien probe. Makes sense in a way.
2007-04-23 22:16:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possibly only the physical world needs to comply with traditional beginning and ending concepts and the spiritual world may have a different expression not requiring a beginning or an end.
2007-04-23 22:11:06 · answer #8 · answered by nikola333 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess you don't get caught up in the whole gravity or theory of relativity theory either then!
Educate yourself properly on science and evolution. Start with every book Richard Dawkins has written, then report back.
If there were gods (beings we might call gods) they would be at the end of evolution, not the beginning.
2007-04-23 22:09:07 · answer #9 · answered by nicevolve 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Think back to when Abraham was walking around in the desert talking to himself and hearing a voice tell him to do certain things. That's where god came from.
2007-04-23 22:11:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋