Praise is due to God whose worth cannot be described by speakers, whose bounties cannot be counted by computers and whose claim (to obedience) cannot be satisfied by those who attempt to do so, whom the height of intellectual courage cannot appreciate, and the divings of understanding cannot reach; He for whose description no limit has been laid down, no eulogy exists, no time is ordained and no duration is fixed.
He brought forth creation through His Omnipotence, dispersed winds through His Compassion, and made firm the shaking earth with rocks.
The foremost in religion is the acknowledgement of Him, the perfection of acknowledging Him is to testify Him, the perfection of testifying Him is to believe in His Oneness, the perfection of believing in His Oneness is to regard Him Pure, and the perfection of His purity is to deny Him attributes, because every attribute is a proof that it is different from that to which it is attributed and everything to which something is attributed is different from the attribute.
Thus whoever attaches attributes to God recognises His like, and who recognises His like regards Him two; and who regards Him two recognises parts for Him; and who recognises parts for Him mistook Him; and who mistook Him pointed at Him; and who pointed at Him admitted limitations for Him; and who admitted limitations for Him numbered Him.
Whoever said in what is He, held that He is contained; and whoever said on what is He held He is not on something else. He is a Being but not through phenomenon of coming into being. He exists but not from non-existence. He is with everything but not in physical nearness. He is different from everything but not in physical separation. He acts but without connotation of movements and instruments. He sees even when there is none to be looked at from among His creation. He is only One, such that there is none with whom He may keep company or whom He may miss in his absence.
2007-10-09 12:09:11
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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Hello,
God, He was there all the time. He has no begining and has no end. We cannot comprehend that because God created us and created for us the consept of time and relitivity. In Islam God has many names known to us so far we know 99. They include The merciful, The creator, Allah, and amongst those names is The Beginning.
You try to understand it.. you wouldnt.. our minds cannot imagine infinit time..the concept is beyond our logic but its only like that because God created us like that and God Created time for us.
There are similar things Aethiest say. Humans evolved. We say ok where did they come from? They would say molecules that were on the planet and formed a cell...etc etc.. The next question would be where did our planet (which had those molecules) come from? They say the big bang theory. So far so good. Then we ask where did that dense matter that was as small as an egg come from? the matter that exploded and became the universe and space? Can you imagine a piece of matter in no where? no space no nothing and has been there since there was no time? You cant comprehend that even if you deny that there is a God you come back to the same idea.. how could there be something without time limits.. something that has been there since there was no time?
The answer is really simple but hard to comprehend at the same time due to our small brain capacity. God is the begining he is not bout by time because he created it for us and he created matter out of nothing. And probably the big bang was how God created the universe from this matter. And God knows best.
Peace
2007-10-09 12:13:26
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answered by Nova 2
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Man made god in efforts of trying to explain the unexplained. In reality God is an extraterrestrial being or beings who came here from time to time to either scout this planet for something or to live. Eventually they mixed in with the original habitants of this planet and in some cases to survive.
I know this may sound crazy but if u take the time to check it out u'll find that EVERY religion and ancient culture say the same thing about their god, gods, angels & even devils.
God is always a powerful being
God and the angels are always from outside earth. Whether they call it heaven or Nirvana etc. it is not earth.
I GEN- 6:4 it describes how they (sons of GOD) had earthly wives (daughters of MEN) and later they had children who became mighty men; which could only mean that the sons of god had sperms compatible with human ovum.
I can go on and on but i'll stop here. Think about it.
2007-10-09 12:08:27
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answered by Anonymous
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We can only partially comprehend the notion of God's existence. To do so, we must use human concepts to speak of God: "without beginning or end"; "eternal"; "infinite", etc. The Bible says that He has always existed: " . . . even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God" (Psalm 90:2). And, "Your throne is established from of old; Thou art from everlasting" (Psalm 93:2). Quite simply, God has no beginning and no end. So, where did God come from? He didn't. He always was.
To us, the notion of time is linear. One second follows the next, one minute is after another. We get older, not younger and we cannot repeat the minutes that have passed us by. We have all seen the time lines on charts: early time is on the left and later time is on the right. We see nations, people's lives, and plans mapped out on straight lines from left to right. We see a beginning and an end. But God is "beyond the chart." He has no beginning or end. He simply has always been.
Also, physics has shown that time is a property that is the result of the existence of matter. Time exists when matter exists. Time has even been called the fourth dimension. But God is not matter. In fact, God created matter. He created the universe. So, time began when God created the universe. Before that, God was simply existing and time had no meaning (except conceptually), no relation to Him. Therefore, to ask where God came from is to ask a question that cannot really be applied to God in the first place. Because time has no meaning with God in relation to who He is, eternity is also not something that can be absolutely related to God. God is even beyond eternity.
Eternity is a term that we finite creatures use to express the concept of something that has no end -- and/or no beginning. Since God has no beginning or end, He has no beginning. This is because He is outside of time.
2007-10-09 12:06:16
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answer #4
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answered by Philip S 2
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The bible is the written authority of God.
The first five books of the bible was written through Moses by the finger of God.
In these books, God tells us he is the great "I AM", (not I was, or I will be, but "I AM")
God tells us in the bible, he does not have a beginning or an end...He has always existed. (I AM)
Of course it is hard to understand this unless we had the mind of God.
If we had the mind of God we would also be God
We are not God, so we take God at his word and believe what he says by faith. (Faith is believing without seeing, or understanding.)
Who are we to argue with God?
Only a fool would argue with God and
Only a fool wants proof for anything he can't explain away.
Nuf said.
2007-10-09 12:07:31
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answer #5
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answered by blogdog123 4
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The idea of god is not a rational one.
Christians will either spout off "god has always existed" or the slightly smarter ones will try spice that idea up with a few larger words.
Then, in a stunningly arrogant way, will assert everything else must have a beginning. Stunning.
2007-10-09 12:03:59
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answer #6
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answered by Win Noble 3
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God made time. He does not exist in time. So since he is not at any point in time then there is no beginning because he created time.....So the question is God exists so what does God exist in? And if you think of that long enough, I exist isn't that crazy
2007-10-10 18:46:52
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answer #7
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answered by Peggy Pirate 6
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Not for you to know. Kind of like "where does the Universe end (or begin). We will probably never know. If we do find out would it matter at all beyond a mental exercise? Sigh, so many questions, so little time in our paltry time as cognitive beings.......
2007-10-09 12:04:18
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answer #8
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answered by zp055att 6
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The God factory made him. Why do you think there's so many freakin' Gods!? If I know anything about economics, I know that the market is flooded with Gods, lowering the demand for them. Yet the God factory is still making Gods like that Scientology God or that Madonna God, soon every God will be worth so little that the factory will have to make Super-Gods to compensate.
2007-10-09 11:59:33
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answered by Anonymous
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There a nearly infinite multiplicity of theistic belief systems in the world.
The God that a culture believes in invariably embodies the values of that culture and chooses the people of that culture as its chosen people.
There is no verifiable evidence for the existence of any Gods
It seems pretty obvious to me that we created God is our imagination.
2007-10-09 12:03:29
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answered by Subconsciousless 7
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