A question about "god"?

Question

If life is made from life, as there must be parents or there is no child, does it not make sense that the first life was created from god, not by god?


This is really directed at people who believe in some godform.

I think most answerers have missed the piont of the question entirely.

Point, not piont.

Answer 1

I am not trying to make you mad but I have to ask.

If life is made from life, and the first life was made FROM god, doesn't that make god life? If god is life then where did THAT life come from?

There IS an answer to this question but your scope is too small. Your are almost at the end of the Theist question.........the Atheistic religions (Buddhism and Taoism) can help you take it the final few steps. At the end of the question, when you realize the answer, god means everything yet nothing.

Answer 2

Posting a science question in the religion and spirituality section often means the asker does not really want an answer. His goal is to ask a question that he believes proves some scientific knowledge to be wrong, or that science does not yet answer, and make the implicit claim that the only other explanation is a god, and specifically, the same god he happens to believe in.

It's the "god of the gaps" - intellectually bankrupt, since it favors ignorance instead of knowledge, and because of the contained logical fallacy.

However, on the off chance that you really want to know the answer:

Claim CB000:
Pasteur and other scientists disproved the concept of spontaneous generation and established the "law of biogenesis" -- that life comes only from previous life.
Source:
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, 1985. Life--How Did It Get Here? Brooklyn, NY, p. 38.
Response:

1. The spontaneous generation that Pasteur and others disproved was the idea that life forms such as mice, maggots, and bacteria can appear fully formed. They disproved a form of creationism. There is no law of biogenesis saying that very primitive life cannot form from increasingly complex molecules.

Also see: Abiogenesis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_life

Answer 3

First of all, I just love how you worded this question, it's as if you are trying to make God human, lol.

The answer to this is very simple. Life was created from God and by God.

God created Life. The reason this is so hard for most Humans to understand is because they can't grasp the concept.

The best way to explain this is, the power to create life came from God. This power was always with God, because it is apart of Him, so therefore it was from God and by God that Life exists.

Answer 4

The strongest argument that I know of for the existence of a god is the argument from design, that is, that the world is so complex that someone made it. But this argument falls apart when the same argument is applied to the god. If the first life had to be created from God, then God too also had to be created somehow. It seems more parsimonious to take the position that life can come about on its own, since mutation and natural selection can lead to increasing complexity.

Answer 5

First two things:

1. When God "creates" He makes something from nothing.
e.g. In the beginning God CREATED the heaven and the earth.

2. When God "makes" He makes something from something.
e.g. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Adam's body was MADE BY God, but Adam's "Life" was CREATED FROM God.

Hope this helps clear up the confusion.

Answer 6

If I understand the point as you say, the first life. God did not bring life from Heaven but created it here. What you keep pointing at is the first humans were not born. God spoke man into being.

Answer 7

I think this is a very good question, if I understand it right. Its not a scientific question, it is more about the ontological basis. If God is the creator of everything, then in a precreation state there is nothing but Him (or Her!). If we assume God created us, we hold a position of duality, but if in the beginning, there was nothing yet created, there was only One, the Absolute, or God. Of what material could s/he create life, if not out of its own stuff so to say. Thats what the biblical saying that God created man in his image points to IMHO. Once we, man or anything else, was created (came into existence) there was duality, and in this dual position there is a creator and the created. But in essence we are still One. the God core is within us. We are God in essence, in substance, in our core of beingness, but not in his function and fullness. We are the wave, God is the ocean. The wave is not the full ocean, its part of it, but in its essence it is identical to it - both are water. Therefore we can say, life comes from life, and being comes from being.

Answer 8

You're upsetting traditional Christians. It is important for them to see God as an external force, outside the universe. Otherwise, the "atonement" doesn't work. With God an untimate part of the universe, a fundamental ground of being, the search for God is too easy. (Bishop John Shelby Spong suggests something like this and people line up to attack him.)

Answer 9

God created man out of the dust of the earth but for man to have actual 'life' God breathed into him. So, in a sense, yes.

Answer 10

That sounds a bit Alchemical. The ancient Alchemist thought that God divided God's self into the 4 elements that made up the world and that by combining them again one could free and experience God.