2007-05-15 03:50:47 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This question comes from the human's inability to comprehend infinity. Most of us can imagine that time will never end, but very few of us can comprehend that time never started.
It is the definition of 'is'. We have a problem understanding it because everything we know has a start and end, but things which are truly infinite (like space and time) have no beginning and have no end, and if you believe in God then this would apply to that being as well.
2007-05-15 03:54:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Simple logic indicates that something finite (of this creation) can never come from nothing. So where did everything come from?
Plato and Aristotle used the first cause arguments, that somewhere along the way there must have been a first cause, but where could that come from? It can not come from the finite, so logically it must come from the infinite.
You see that God is not part of the creation (viz. is not finite), but is above the creation thus is infinite, eternal and unchangeable. While this is true as far as it goes, by itself it does not necessarily bring you to the Christian God.
2007-05-15 03:59:49 · answer #2 · answered by Brian 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ultra Super God
2007-05-15 04:18:57 · answer #3 · answered by knuckleheadmcspazmatron 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Assuming your original statement is correct, then we must posit the existence of an infinite series of creators. However, your "if" statement is, in fact, wrong. Both modern physics (see Stephen Hawking's _A Brief History of Time_) and modern Christianity believe that, in fact, something can come from nothing. Or, to put it more into Hawking's way of thinking, while we imagine that there is nothing "prior" to the universe, this is an error in perception, and that it is more accurate to say that there was no "prior" to the universe--existence and lack of existence (nothing) are both concepts applicable only to Post-Big Bang events. By this logic, it isn't accurate to say that nothing preceded something. Hawking explains this far better than I ever could....
2007-05-15 03:58:04 · answer #4 · answered by Qwyrx 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well if there IS a God, God created something from nothing, didn't he?
2007-05-15 03:54:18 · answer #5 · answered by gingi_01 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The doesgodexist.org link is a good one. I've added another link that is good from answersingenesis.org.
God was not created, He has always been. God created the universe, including time. Because He created time, He is not bound by time and therefore has no beginning in time. If He has no beginning in time, then He must always have existed.
2007-05-15 07:27:52 · answer #6 · answered by D-Rock 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Man created god
2007-05-15 03:59:34 · answer #7 · answered by rosbif 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Who said something cannot come from nothing? God created (Hebrew word bara) the heavens and the earth out of nothing.
But to answer your question, He is eternal. He dwells in timelessness, that is, outside the physical restraints of space-time. In the Bible, this is paraphrased in the term "the First and the Last".
"For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: 'I dwell in the high and holy place, with him who has a contrite and humble spirit.'" - Isaiah 57:15
2007-05-15 03:56:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Humans created god.
2007-05-15 03:54:43 · answer #9 · answered by son_of_enki 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You are using finite rules to try and define the infinite. It doesn't work; we're too human to grasp that God is transcendent.
2007-05-15 03:56:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋