Did he just sit there in the nothingness for an indefinite amount of time and then suddenly decide, "Today, I will create something"?
2007-07-30 01:18:46 · 35 answers · asked by Link 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
(Philosophically) God didn't create the universe, as something had to create God.
Of course there are hundreds of creation myths, one being more popular today doesn't mean it's any more true than the monkey sitting on the back of a turtle giving birth to a cosmic egg....
It's all about the patriarchal ego....projecting an image of itself as the Father Figure and Creator....
2007-07-30 01:22:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Interesting that the book of genesis does not say that God created the universe. It says, "in the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth." Genesis 1:1.
If the universe only consists of "heavens and the Earth" then I suppose He did create the universe. All depends on what the definition of "heavens" is. Doesn't "literally" say "universe" though.
Heavens, in the dictionary, means "the sky, firmament, or expanse of space surrounding the earth." I wonder if that's meant to mean the entire universe?
People had a different picture of the universe in their heads in the old days, prior to astronomy and science. Back then, the Earth was exceedingly large, and many people did not know if it had an end. It was like Earth, and then sky, and that's it. They did not have the picture in their heads of a never ending universe with other suns, and solar systems out there. The planets were wandering stars, not other rocky worlds.
In any case, if God created the universe, then there wasn't anything there before it, including time. Time did not exist.
2007-07-30 01:27:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The question is by a finite mind. It is not a question "IF God created..." rather the statement should be "THAT" God created the universe -- that's a basic assumption in the debate.
This is creation "ex nihili" meaning creating something out of nothing.
The time-and-matter oriented mind has difficulty understanding this concept just as the mind of the ant cannot understand how human beings became human beings, let alone understand the vastness of the universe.
Do you ever ask how matter got started? How did life begin? From a single cell? How did that cell begin? Every honest honest inquirer should read the book by Michael J. Behe DARWIN'S BLACK BOX where you can find enlightenment if you can suspend for a little while your own judgment about origins. Can you understand how fast light travels. At the speed of light, the last star earth has discovered, is billion and billion light years away -- boggles the mind -- it took billions of light years to reach earth for us to see it even with most powerful of telescope. And you think that all these happened by chance? This is a question of authorship; WHO started the existence of matter, not HOW.
2007-07-30 01:54:12 · answer #3 · answered by ventureslimited06 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First of all ... time is relative ... For god , there is nothing called time .. it's only something that exist in our lives ... it's like the gravity, on earth there is, but in the space there is no gravity...
Before Universe existed ... there was only god ... and don't think much about it because your head will explode before you even start to realize how big and mighty god is ...
2007-07-30 01:23:30 · answer #4 · answered by Luay14 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's where the flaw in th Bible come in. I'm just gonna assume it was a blank universe. A black blanket of nothingness.
[Note: God created the earth supposedly, not the universe]
2007-07-30 01:23:54 · answer #5 · answered by World_Ruler 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Before the universe was created, god was spending some time considering how to build it -- then we had the big bang. Perhaps that big bang was the end of another universe.
I will accept all input from anyone who has first hand data.
2007-07-30 01:21:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There was no "before" when God created the earth; God created the earth WITH time.
2007-07-30 01:23:57 · answer #7 · answered by Oleg V 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am sure there was something...but what i can't answer...
Colossians 1:15-17
The Supremacy of Christ
15He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. 17He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
2007-07-30 01:39:35 · answer #8 · answered by turntable 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God was there before the universe. I don't know what was there other than God.
2007-07-30 01:24:10 · answer #9 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In science the world started with the big bang, what was there before it?
Maybe God was the big bang.
2007-07-30 01:22:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋