I find that reallllly confusing.
2007-05-15 04:06:20 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you point that out to them, it's fun to watch them silently open and close their mouth, as you have rendered them speechless. Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron did a good display of this the other night.
2007-05-15 04:11:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
That's where the God question REALLY gets tough. See energy cant be created or destroyed, it just is... Which begs the question if there was a god where did he come from, and if there was NO god, where did the Universe come from, or is the universe itself sentient with the consciousness residing on a different plane, and the evidence of the spiritual is impossible to define, because it isn't physical. Like a hand that fills a glove, and when the hand is gone, the glove still takes up the same amounts of space, but it is again inanimate... my advise is- don't contemplate infinity- it only leads to headaches, and weird glove philosophies. (yes the glove one is really mine, sadly)
2007-05-15 14:54:51 · answer #2 · answered by Goddess Nikki 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question. I see this quite a bit, "Where did the Big Bang come from?" To me it is a fair statement to ask, "If God created the universe, where did He come from?"
Edit: Many of the answers already on here fall into the same trap. The universe had to have a beginning, but God does not. According to the Big Bang Theory, there was no time prior to the Big Bang itself (time was a product of it). Creationists cannot accept this; however, as one pointed out above, God is transcendent to it. In other words, Creationists want their cake and eat it, too.
2007-05-15 11:14:39 · answer #3 · answered by The Doctor 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christians believe that God always was , is and will be . God is always in the eternally present. So God could not come from nothing for God is the I AM.
2007-05-15 11:14:23 · answer #4 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am confused too.
The Christians here say that :
*..."God separated from universe"..... at the same time, Jesus, who is God, was born on Christmas day 25th of December, and died too, killed by Judas, so he was once here in universe,
or
*..."everlasting"....; we can't see Jesus anymore,
*..."outside of dimension"..., Jesus was tallish maybe 6ft or 7ft , long hair about 30 -40cm , human being ,
*..."no beginning no end"...., so why Jesus was born and died
*..."God always existed not created being"...., but Jesus is not exist anymore ; we never see him anymore, yet Pontius Pilatus saw him,
etc, etc,
So no wonder lots of atheist pop ups, because it is either the comments are right and Jesus is not God, or Jesus is God and the comments are wrong.
It will be difficult to say both are right , and easier to say both are wrong.
Anyway, Iam confused too,
2007-05-15 11:56:12 · answer #5 · answered by bill s 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You may be subject to a misinterpretation or dogma. The Nicene Creed, a document stating the fundamentals of all Christian belief, states that God is eternal. Eternal does not simply mean 'having no end' but rather 'having no end or beginning'. God created the phenomena creation knows as 'time', and therefore God is not subject to time, but operates outside its boundaries. In short, God did not come but always has been.
2007-05-15 11:12:43 · answer #6 · answered by Gordon B 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Christians DON'T say that God came from nothing. Christians say that God always existed. He's not a created being. He is God! He doesn't have a begining.
2007-05-15 11:11:57 · answer #7 · answered by pumped up! whoo hoo! 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Magic is allowed to be confusing, I think. The "mystery" component of religion is very important; people feel insecure anyway, and then they're told: "You just have to believe it, because you're too stupid to ever understand." Just my opinion.
Of course, there's also the fact that things have to "start" somewhere. Otherwise, it's "turtles all the way down."
2007-05-15 11:12:48 · answer #8 · answered by N 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
As a Christian, I do not believe that God came from nothing. If a Christian tells you that, then he/she is probably either uninformed or trying to confuse you.
God has always existed.. He did not come from anything. He exists outside of time.
2007-05-15 11:14:42 · answer #9 · answered by Ajo 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
No, God has always been. In fact, only God has always been. If you were to suggest that the Universe had always been, that would imply that the Universe is God. And then there would be proof that God exists. Which would be no good at all. Because God is supposed to be mysterious.
2007-05-15 11:13:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋