Was he created,conceved or just evolved from somewhere?
Seriously I'm fed up being told he has always been here as a universal reply, what a kop out answer.
Also I cant believe out of the 100's of people who have supposedly seen and talked with him that they never thought to ask him that natural question.
2007-11-25 11:43:35 · 17 answers · asked by Kunoichi 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Clever People created God to control and frighten innocent people.
2007-11-25 22:02:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When questions like this can be asked in any belief system it is a sign that the system is in need of repair or new paradigms. Questions of this nature are akin to brainwasters like 'how many angels can dance on a pinhead, or can god crea8 a stone too heavy to lift etc' It's like in science the irreconcilable differences between quantum theory and general relativity- the infinities problem.
To 'Thundercat' et al your syllogism concerning causes is invalid. You are quoting Aquinas presumably, who simply borrowed Aristotle's threadbare logic.
It fails at the first premise.
'One cannot logically deduce properties of the whole by observing relations between its particular constituents' - Me 2008!
2007-11-25 13:21:25 · answer #2 · answered by azteccameron1 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This one really is boring. Almost as boring as the people over on science and mathematics, who, at least twice a day, want to know if time travel is possible. It gets tedious keep giving the same answer over and over again, but for just one more time: God is Eternal.
2007-11-25 21:43:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
1. Everything that begins to exist has cause of its existence.
2. The universe began to exist.
3. Therefore, the universe has a cause of its existence.
The universe requires a cause because it had a beginning. The designer, unlike the universe, had no beginning, so doesn't need a cause. In addition, Einstein's general relativity, which has much experimental support, shows that time is linked to matter and space. So time itself would have begun along with matter and space.
However ... God has no need to have been created, since He exists either outside time (where cause and effect do not operate) or within multiple dimensions of time (such that there is no beginning of a plane of time). Hence God is eternal, having never been created.
2007-11-25 11:55:26 · answer #4 · answered by thundercatt9 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
I'm not sure we'll ever know.
The concept probably evolved out of ancestor worship through a lot of steps but the way it actually happened isn't clear.
2007-11-25 11:50:52 · answer #5 · answered by bestonnet_00 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Logic tells us that every effect has a cause. You were caused by your parents, and they by their parents, etc. We assume that we would get back to the first human or the first animal on earth. Then we get back to what caused life on earth and so forth. Eventually we would get back to the first cause of all other things in existence. This would be an uncaused cause. This is what we call God.
What do we know about this God? Not much. Only what He has told us about Himself, and what we can deduce from logic.
2007-11-25 12:04:23 · answer #6 · answered by Bibs 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Great Question. I'll be watching this question to see what kind of responses you get. Good Luck
2007-11-25 11:52:34 · answer #7 · answered by sendittojeff 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Deep down inside I got the feeling that this is an off limit question.... you are truly challenging Him.
2007-11-25 12:00:33 · answer #8 · answered by Quiet Within 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
god name means he causes to become, so in effect he created all things which came into existance including jesus his son, but if he caused everything into existance that means before he created his first creation jesus there was no creation, so in effect god has always existed
2007-11-25 11:55:41 · answer #9 · answered by dimeadozen 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
People made God. People also killed God. It went full circle.
2007-11-25 11:49:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋