I believe in a motivating principle in the Universe, that some may choose to call 'God'. I just have been wrestling with a question that no one seems to be able to answer for me.
If in the beginning (before the world was created) nothing existed for God to be conscious of, then how could He have counted himself as conscious? If there is nothing to be conscious of, then isn't concisouness rendered unconcious?
Let me explain: If there is nothing to hear, see, smell, taste, or touch, then there is nothing to be conscious of. If there is nothing to be conscious of, then consciousness is impossible. Therefore, God would have been UNCONSCIOUS because of a lack of things to be CONSCIOUS of.
This means that there must have been something that existed BEFORE God, which is GREATER than God, which stimulated Him into the act of creating. If this is so, then what was BEFORE God? And what was before THAT?
2007-09-17 09:38:16 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Interesting question...
I would suggest that God's reality is different from ours...that it is somehow separate from this universe he created. Your definition of consciousness is limited by what you can perceive. Hearing, seeing, tasting, and touching (and smelling if you want the fifth)...all these senses are associated with our physical bodies. Perhaps God has a whole different set of senses that allow him to be conscious of things that we can't perceive because we don't have (or just don't know how to use) those senses...yet.
After all, we certainly don't have the ability to perceive anything about what heaven (God's home) will be like nor can we use our physical senses to learn anything about hell (whatever that is). Certainly I can agree that we couldn't possibly be conscious of anything that existed before God created us but that doesn't mean that he was unconscious!
2007-09-17 09:55:26 · answer #1 · answered by KAL 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God did not have to have something to hold his attention to be conscious. You can be asleep, such as when you have surgery, and you are conscious of nothing, yet you still ARE.
Now, as to how God can exist. If you left the room right now, and you immediately walked back in and there sat a breathtakingly beautiful oil painting, with each brush stroke a genius touch, could I convince you it appeared all by itself and no one created it? No, someone would have had to have created it for it to be there. Look at flowers, clouds, fireflies, baby's little fingers. Could they have just appeared that perfect without a creator?
2007-09-17 16:49:02 · answer #2 · answered by bamakathy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While it is good to seek answers it is also futile at times as well, we have to realize that God is not limited to time and space nor is He burdened by the laws of science or nature, God cannot be fathomed by any human intellect because He is the first cause of all life itself and so is above and beyond human boundaries.
Most people cannot get past this fact and so, cannot accept on faith alone what has been revealed by the Bible and made credible in the person of Christ, however God`s thumbprint is revealed in His creation and when studied with openess shows the Creator`s handiwork.
2007-09-17 16:55:07 · answer #3 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Short Answer - No one can answer that.
You will probably get the gawd is the beginning and the end - blah blah blah blather.
The idea you are sharing is a good question and more should consider it.
All I can tell is that the Universe exist, Everything is some form of energy rendered to be solid based on our perceptions of existence.
All I can tell you is that God can not exist until it can be proven that he does exist. Those making claims for existence of god are the ones that bear the burden of proof.
2007-09-17 16:51:10 · answer #4 · answered by Atrum Animus AM 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting, but based upon a faulty premise.
If God exists outside of time and space as we know it, then He exists in that realm that is non physical.
Even scientists believe there are many more dimensions than the three we are aware of.
Your premise states that there can be nothing in the realm of God to be aware of, but this is merely speculation. What I see here is an attempt to anthropomorphise God in this respect.
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2007-09-17 16:48:03 · answer #5 · answered by Hogie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can never question God. Sometimes there are no explanations for things. It would be the same way if evolution just 'happened'. If there was nothing to evolve from how could that have happened either?? But the world had to start somewhere right? So we just leave those questions alone because they can not be answered right now.
2007-09-17 16:43:53 · answer #6 · answered by So Confused 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are some who believe that god cannot exist without god's creations, just like the creations can't exist without god.
in order to be aware of something, there has to be some separation, some distinction. god could not perceive or enjoy the universe when there was nothing separated. but when creation happened, there was something for god to perceive, and something to perceive god. it's a symbiotic relationship.
watch out for BEFORE though, time is a trap, god is not temporal.
that's pretty high mysticism though, and you won't get any agreement from any dogma loving "sheep".
2007-09-17 16:47:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Almighty God exists .God's spirit was movin over the water before the earth &sky were created by God.
2007-09-17 16:56:34 · answer #8 · answered by aaron 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was conscious of Himself. Being conscious of Himself included consciousness of all the things He planned to do.
2007-09-17 16:41:18 · answer #9 · answered by Acorn 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Let me ask you this:
If you are in a room that is dead silent, absolutely no sounds being made at all, are you deaf? Based on your above theory that would be true.
2007-09-17 16:45:51 · answer #10 · answered by wvucivilguy 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋