If so did God create that vacume/void that he/she/it/that was existing in? If not wouldnt that mean that the vacume/void existed before God, thus dismising the assumed fact that god is alpha and omega. The beginning and end. I believe that this nothingness/void/vacume existed before anything else existed. Let me know what you guys think. Thx to all the people who asnwer. :)
2007-08-31 03:41:19 · 21 answers · asked by h20_theghost 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ok. if he was "hovering" over this void, Was he resting in another void looking down on another void? What exactly is this place he was hovering in?
2007-08-31 03:54:43 · update #1
God is an eternal spirit and needs no certain space. Time and space pertain to man.
2007-08-31 03:50:03 · answer #1 · answered by djmantx 7 · 9⤊ 0⤋
There was nothing.
He is a spirit, he does not need a place to stay.
Genesis 1:i-2
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2. And the earth was void and empty and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved over the waters.
2007-09-07 10:24:19 · answer #2 · answered by Catholictothemaxtradition 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning..."
"The spirit of God hovered over the void..."
By definition, nothing existed before the Creator.
2007-08-31 03:51:35 · answer #3 · answered by Robert S 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I can only share this. I believe that God is the consciousness of Energy itself. I believe that the existence of God and Energy are simultaneous, meaning one does not exist without the other. Hence, existence is an absolute, and there are no voids.
The universe doesn't contain God, rather God is the container of all existence. Such that there is no existence beyond the existence of God. And as energy is the foundation of all existence, the sum of all power is the sum of God.
Shingoshi Dao
2007-09-03 14:54:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
some questions just cannot be answered and this is exactly why most people dont believe cuz other people cannot answer all of their questions, not even the bible cant! there is always going to be an unexplainable question. but in heb. 11:1,3, it says "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.....Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of god, so that things which are seen were not made of the things which do appear."
This scripture means that if you have faith, you believe the things that you have not seen, the things that no one may believe because it cannot be explained. You just gotta understand that you are not going to be able to witness everything but that doesnt mean that its not true.
2007-08-31 04:06:57 · answer #5 · answered by Kris 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God...Glorious and Exalted is He (Allah subhana wa ta'ala) is eternal, infinite, has no partner or equal ...this is the Oneness of God (Allah). And God (Allah) only has to say "Be" (creative "Be") and it will Be (Qur'an):
"To Him is due the primal origin of the heavens and the earth: When He decreeth a matter, He saith to it: "Be," and it is. [Qur'an 2:117]
God (Allah), is beyond time and place. He is the Creator of time and place. His command enters from beyond these limited realms and manifests itself in this world of time and place. God (Allah) also directly creates each and every action in the universe in each and every moment. He thus gives order to everything. Nothing is random or chaotic or outside the Order of God (Allah).
Imam Al Ghazzali in his 'Tahafut al-Falasifa' says:
"God is not the cause of the world in the sense that a cause is that which necessarily accompanies its effect. But God is a cause in [a] second sense, a free agent that precedes its effect. Thus, the effect (the universe) need not follow upon the heels of the cause (God), but can appear a finite number of years ago when God willed from eternity that it should be"
http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/journal/is-01/Ch-Ghazali%20.doc
You might like to read the Jerusalem Treatise of Imam Ghazzali. This nicely sums up the eternal oneness of God (Allah), and his attributes: http://www.noblesanctuary.com/ghazali.html
"In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
Say: He is Allah, the One.
He is Allah, the Eternal,
Who was never born, nor ever gave birth.
The One beyond compare."
[Qur'an: Al-Ikhlas (Purity) 112]
Salam (peace).
2007-08-31 22:57:43 · answer #6 · answered by ♥zene purrs♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The asking of the question implies that we can answer such an infinite question with a finite mind. You can't measure the volume of the ocean with a teaspoon, and both of them are finite. To try to measure God with human logic and reason is illogical and unreasonable, not to mention mathematically impossible.
2007-09-07 18:13:51 · answer #7 · answered by Bible believer 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Water Ghost, you're thinking in terms of our universe again. We don't know whats outside of our universe. Its pointless to say there "was" anything, including a void, since our definition of "was" is limited to our knowledge of our speck of a planet/reality. You're also assuming that time works the same outside the universe as it does in our universe. Have you ever been outside of the universe? Nope, I doubt it. Kind of a weak argument.
2007-08-31 03:52:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither you can understand the extent or scope of God nor will you be able to percept what was there before creation of universe.There was niether a vacuum nor darkness anywhere because, He is present everywhere and at all times;whatever you are able to see are His manifests.
2007-09-08 01:07:27 · answer #9 · answered by shahinsaifullah2006 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe He has created millions upon millions of universes, etc. Hard to believe that He exists just to create us. We won't know for sure until the end.
Peace
2007-08-31 03:47:35 · answer #10 · answered by Mark 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋