God didn't come to be. He was always there.
Well, really "always there" isn't right either, since because He is eternal, he exists outside of time. That means that words like "then," "now," "always," "when," "beginning," and "end" don't apply to God. So there literally is no "how" to God's eternal existence. He just always was there.
It's like trying to find the beginning and end point on a circle: there ain't one. It's continuous. That's like God's eternity.
To wonder "when" the point was in eternity that God decide to make stuff isn't applicable to God and to eternity.
Another way to put it is, to God, everything is a NOW.
2007-09-19 10:52:31
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answer #1
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answered by Acorn 7
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Just as there is a material universe, also there is a spiritual universe, there are many spiritual planets. The spiritual universe, however, is situated far, far away from the cluster of material universes. Material scientists cannot even estimate the number of planets and stars within this universe. They are also incapable of traveling to other stars by spaceship. According to the Bhagavad-gitä (8.20), there is also a spiritual world:
paras tasmät tu bhävo ’nyo ‘vyakto ’vyaktät sanätanaù
yaù sa sarveñu bhüteñu naçyatsu na vinaçyati
“Yet there is another unmanifested nature, which is eternal and is transcendental to this manifested and unmanifested matter. It is supreme and is never annihilated. When all in this world is annihilated, that part remains as it is.”
Thus there is another nature, which is superior to material nature. The word bhäva or svabhäva refers to nature. The spiritual nature is eternal, and even when all the material universes are destroyed, the planets in the spiritual world abide. They remain exactly as the spirit soul remains even after the annihilation of the material body. That spiritual world is called the apräkåta (antimaterial) world. In this transcendental, spiritual world or universe, the highest planetary system is known as Goloka Vrindävana. That is the abode of Lord Krishna God Himself, who is also all-spiritual.
This material world is only a shadow phantasmagoria of the spiritual kingdom of the Lord, and because it is a shadow it is never eternal; the variegatedness in the material world of duality (spirit and matter) cannot be compared to that of the spiritual world.
So, the material world is perverted reflection of the spiritual world. That's a fact. We have got experience that material things are created, but in the spiritual world things are not created; they are already there, everlasting. God and the spiritual world never came to be, neither us because we are also eternal spirit souls and our origin is in the spiritual world.
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2007-09-19 19:14:25
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answered by ? 7
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God in general is genderless and is Almighty. God is not one who created universe but IS the universe. It all comes to time. God is time. God knows everything and everything that will happen, yet it has happened already because God knows it.
God is knowledge. God is all powerful. The universe did not come to be. It was ALWAYS here and out came time which rules th universe supreme. It came with time that humans developed and they became so modern with technology. But when one dies, one goes through the endless cycle of birth that come with time.
Humans are so great when you come to think about it. We actually go to a SCHOOL! We exist and have created such a terribly complex way of life that come along with time. There is sickness and dipair. And we know about it! do you think snakes or other animals no about dispair or anything else? We are knollegible and we know many things! So there is God or time or the universe that supported us but subliminily. God is the foundation of EVERYTHING: bacteria extra-terrestrial life that come with time and spreads!
We are not created but exist. We breath and we know about it! God is the future, life, time, and everything that lays foundations of our universe. I really hope that answers your question because I have been wanting to share this with people, and religion is not religion it is worship but Living a humble life is veneration of Earth and God anyway.
2007-09-19 18:07:56
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answered by Bharatha 3
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If any man claims to have the answer to this question it is false, because all that God has said is I AM, meaning He is and always has been, and always will be.
God will give us answers to all of our questions when we are taken up to heaven, by our faith in Jesus Christ our savior.
I can understand you wanting to know, but the time is not now for us to know all, God promised we will know all in good time.
So the only answer I as a mere man can give to you is, you only have to believe in him and have faith, do His will as He has set in the word of God, and all will be anwered in good time.
I hope this helped some, and may God Bless you even more than he already has.
Joe V
2007-09-19 18:24:23
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answered by Anonymous
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If you get an actual intellectual answer that does not have the quotes "God was always there" or something to that affect, then holy sh1t the world is comming to an end...most people say it's because God was always there and blah blah blah....but seriously, why was he there? No wonder why some people don't get Christianity...not enough proof to back themselves up sometimes...
2007-09-19 17:55:40
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answer #5
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answered by Anonymous
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god isn't a person. he doesn't have a body. that's just something that people do to make the concept seem more relatable. god is..energy..with conscioiusness...and that energy existed and eventually spawned the earth and all the other planets. how that energy came to be in the first place is, as far as i know, a total mystery.
P.S. when god sent jesus to earth, yeah ,obviously, he was a man with a body. and he wasn't white, either. he was from jersusalem so he was arabic. and jewish! dontcha love it?!
2007-09-19 17:57:32
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answered by phlygirl 3
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God always was. To Him there is no time. An infinite, all powerful, all knowing God is not limited by mere time and space. What was God doing before He created our universe? I have no clue. Ask Him when you see Him.
2007-09-19 17:54:49
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answer #7
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answered by padwinlearner 5
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God always was. He did not create suffering. He wants very much for us not to suffer but it's impossible because we're all sinful. He doesn't make us suffer, he allows it because in some way it fits into his greater plans.
2007-09-19 18:01:03
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answer #8
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answered by Anonymous
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You ask the oldest philosophical question known to man. Faith will give you personal answers and death may show you the truth. In the meantime, can you work on your writing skills so that the rest of us can decipher your musings with ease?
2007-09-19 17:56:16
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answer #9
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answered by Lizbiz 5
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If you believe that "nothing can come from nothing" then a Prime Cause (ie. god) is impossible. There is obviously a flaw in the question or in the assumptions of the question. I really don't know which.
2007-09-19 17:54:07
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answered by Alan 7
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