How can it be that God existed at negative infinity and before the start of time?

Question

It is so hard to get your head around. God existed before creation right? So how could he have existed before everything began. Right so go back a billion billion years to the power of 10 and keep doing it and keep doing it and He was still there in existence at the start of negative infinity. And please dont quote Genises as this wont answer the question I am putting to you!Genisis just says God was always there. I'm asking how is that possible?

Answer 1

This is where science,limited human understanding and knowlege hand the mantle to Faith. How can we possible understand anything that is outside of time..we can not...we are finite and are just scratching the surface in understanding our own universe and it's many marvelous mysteries....we must think outside of the box....big time and hand the rest of it over to faith.

Answer 2

God exists outside time. Therefore 'He' is not limited by it. 'He' is beyond it. Because we as humans exist in time (it is our fourth dimension) we find it difficult to comprehend being outside time. So, we use the word 'eternity' to somehow describe 'infinity'. However, the word 'eternity' suggests an awful long, long time, so people get a bit mixed up. Just try to imagine a flat creature who lives in 2 dimensions and think how difficult it would be to describe 3 dimensions. Other dimensions exist and time is one of them. Time is less 'fixed' than we think, and sometimes it can be 'escaped out of' and people will 'see into the future'. Scientifically, we don't know how this works or how to harness it, but it comes from the unrealised, unharnessed aspect of human spirituality. Some people view the most important aspect of time, and the most spiritual aspect of time as the present moment - i.e. how deeply one can delve into the present moment. Some people view the present moment as a window through which we can pierce time. Mathematically it is known that there are many dimensions beyond our own. The limitations of our experience and our language cause us problems in the understanding of things like eternity and infinity. Some people think that our universe, with its vast ever-expanding infinity of space and the dimension of time, are reflections of inner spirituality - i.e. we are internally as wide as the infinity of space and as timeless as eternity. Apparently, once you reach this 'place' within yourself, you know that God exists. St Augustine explains this very well. here's a link: http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/110111.htm Read chapters 11 and 12 (they are short).

Answer 3

Do you even understand the things of this universe? I mean, are you even able to wrap your mind around the creation of the Universe regardless of the existence of a Creator?

Probably not. I would bet that you can't really understand the KNOWN things of this Universe, yet you are seeking to rationalize supernatural concepts.

Unacceptable.

Answer 4

If time is measured by the movement of matter, then where there is no matter (such as before the creation of the universe), there is no time. Our difficulty in understanding how something could exist outside of time comes from having experienced only temporal being.

Answer 5

If God existed before creation, then He is not negative, because the concept of positive and negative would not exist prior to creation. Creation gives birth to the tension of positive and negative forces. If you want to think of the God of goodness as a positive force in creation, then that is essentially God's "plan."

Answer 6

Time is not a constant and at a singularity does not exist (nor does space)...so, placing "time constraints" on a pan-dimensional Being is like asking how can a pencil exist without paper.

Answer 7

Zap: a pencil would not exist without paper, because without it there wouldn't be a need for a pencil and it wouldn't have been invented. So you state that god wouldn't have been there without the universe, because there wouldn't be a need for him.
The only logical answer I could give myself is, that god was created by mankind.

Answer 8

It ain't physics, so it doesn't need to be empirically possible. The belief in God is a leap of faith that something much bigger than human reasoning is out there, and created us.

that's my 2 cents worth :) xx

Answer 9

for some questions there just isn't (yet) an answer...
finding an answer to your question is like trying to find the end of the universe... if it has an end, then what's on the outside of it?

Answer 10

Theoretically, by existing outside of our space/time.