English Deutsch Français Italiano Español Português 繁體中文 Bahasa Indonesia Tiếng Việt ภาษาไทย
All categories

2007-04-27 00:00:12 · 17 answers · asked by jerleee 1 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

17 answers

Man made God, and Nature made all things including man.

2007-04-27 01:05:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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.

2007-04-27 10:40:02 · answer #2 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0 0

Birth is a term used to referred to A body being born, God is a spirit & he has no Father or Mother, Because God is the Father of all things.

2007-04-27 07:21:35 · answer #3 · answered by birdsflies 7 · 1 0

No one. That is part of the definition of "God". God is the ultimate source. If anything made or gave birth or whatever to "God", then that "anything" would be God instead. So the very definition of God requires that nothing "gave birth" to Him.

2007-04-27 07:13:14 · answer #4 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 2 0

No one did. In the Bible it says that; " (He is) the alpha and the omega." The beginning and the end. God is existent before time as He was the one that invented time. He doesn't need anyone to give birth to him. I know you maybe asking why did He send Jesus to be born then and Jesus is all God and all man at the same time? Let's just say that God's ways are not our ways. Faith is the answer.

2007-04-27 07:15:54 · answer #5 · answered by meredith 3 · 4 0

God the logos ST MARY gave him birth . also he was exist Born from the Father before all ages like light from light.
the Father exist and not without the Holy spirit.

2007-04-27 08:41:26 · answer #6 · answered by Mosa A 7 · 0 0

No one gave birth to God, however the holy ghost over shadowed Mary and she gave birth to Jesus, God's only son so he could walk amongst us....

2007-04-27 07:23:08 · answer #7 · answered by crazy/beautiful 2 · 1 0

No one gave birth to God. God has always been here. : )

2007-04-27 07:18:58 · answer #8 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 1 0

The Gnostic God concept is more subtle than that of most religions. In its way, it unites and reconciles the recognitions of Monotheism and Polytheism, as well as of Theism, Deism and Pantheism.

In the Gnostic view, there is a true, ultimate and transcendent God, who is beyond all created universes and who never created anything in the sense in which the word “create” is ordinarily understood. While this True God did not fashion or create anything, He (or, It) “emanated” or brought forth from within Himself the substance of all there is in all the worlds, visible and invisible. In a certain sense, it may therefore be true to say that all is God, for all consists of the substance of God. By the same token, it must also be recognized that many portions of the original divine essence have been projected so far from their source that they underwent unwholesome changes in the process. To worship the cosmos, or nature, or embodied creatures is thus tantamount to worshipping alienated and corrupt portions of the emanated divine essence.

The basic Gnostic myth has many variations, but all of these refer to Aeons, intermediate deific beings who exist between the ultimate, True God and ourselves. They, together with the True God, comprise the realm of Fullness (Pleroma) wherein the potency of divinity operates fully. The Fullness stands in contrast to our existential state, which in comparison may be called emptiness.

One of the aeonial beings who bears the name Sophia (“Wisdom”) is of great importance to the Gnostic world view. In the course of her journeyings, Sophia came to emanate from her own being a flawed consciousness, a being who became the creator of the material and psychic cosmos, all of which he created in the image of his own flaw. This being, unaware of his origins, imagined himself to be the ultimate and absolute God. Since he took the already existing divine essence and fashioned it into various forms, he is also called the Demiurgos or “half-maker” There is an authentic half, a true deific component within creation, but it is not recognized by the half-maker and by his cosmic minions, the Archons or “rulers”.

2007-04-27 11:22:18 · answer #9 · answered by HappyG 1 · 0 0

He gave birth to himself, and continues to do it in every moment. That is the very essence, definition, and glory of Him. It is also his name, 'Resurrection'.

I haven't heard this from anybody, and I don't know of any particular Bible verse that says it plainly. It's just the theme of the entire Bible.

If you can't get your mind around the fact that God 'blipped' himself into existence, I don't think you're going to get much out of the Bible. Some folks, with more scientific minds grasp the concept of the 'big bang', but they don't assign any personality to that event. Who detonated the big bang?

2007-04-27 07:33:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

fedest.com, questions and answers