Who/What caused God to exist?

Question

Who/What caused God to Exist?

Answer 1

The way I see it, neither God nor the physical universe simply materialized out of nothing. Conceding the possibility of God means one of three things:

1. God has always existed and is the creator of the universe
2. The physical universe has always existed but God is imaginary
3. Both God and the physical universe has always existed

As difficult as it is to imagine an eternal ANYTHING, imagining two of them is more difficult. We know and can prove the physical universe exists . . . but we don't know nor can we prove that God exists. Options 1 and 3 are more complex than option 2 because we would need to explain God as well as the physical universe -- we would have two mysteries instead of one. Injecting God into the question unnecessarily complicates it: particularly when there's no evidence for him in the first place. None of this explains where ANYTHING came from; that question is not answerable (yet).

Now, consider that, fading back into prehistory, mankind, no matter where it established itself, has created countless gods. This is an indisputable fact, so we KNOW that man creates gods and that he does so prolifically and with ease. Next, consider the opposite, that a creator God created man. There is no direct evidence of ANY kind for this proposition. Modern man has more reasonable and logical explanations for our existence and they don't include God. We've proven evolution is a fact but haven't yet proven abiogenesis. However, there's mounting evidence pointing to abiogenesis as the electro-chemical origin of life on earth. Contrast this to the evidence for the existence of God, which, after thousands of years, still stands at zero.

This raises the problem of the supernatural. Man was never able to explain the natural world, so he invented the supernatural world to provide answers that were otherwise beyond his grasp. These answers evolved into self-reinforcing systems called “religions”. Nobody disputes the power of the human imagination: it has filled the void for us as long as we’ve existed. Religions held us together and got us through dark and treacherous times. But we don’t need them any more. The purpose they served has evaporated – at least for many of us.

Human knowledge and understanding has grown from nothing to its current state. We may be a long way from knowing everything but we’ve made enough progress to abandon superstitious beliefs in the supernatural. We’re on the verge of unifying the laws of the physical universe. We’ve decoded the human genome; cloned various animals; put man on the moon, rovers on Mars and sent probes throughout the solar system and beyond. Knowledge is pushing imagination out of the void at an exponential rate.

If there is a God, who says he needs or wants to be worshiped? If he did, wouldn’t there only be one religion . . . and wouldn’t that religion be pure and incorruptible? The world has seen enough of religion to know something has to be amiss. Just turn on the news for crying out loud! Our world’s religions are not the creation of any God.

Answer 2

He is the uncaused, cause, the uncreated, creator. He is the only being who is completely self-existent and self-sustaining. He needs nothing nor anybody. If there were some "thing" that caused His existence, it would be a greater force or being and would therefore be, God.

Answer 3

every time something would not make experience, theists say that Magic would not carry on with the policies of Nature, Physics, arithmetic, Biology, etc. They declare that even even with the undeniable fact that we choose god to describe each little thing in existence, god by no ability had to be created interior the 1st place. replace the be conscious "God" with "Alien" and you have the classic Alien people and Christians tend to contemplate those people completely NUTS... because of the fact it could no longer be technologies people did no longer comprehend so became into magic of their mythology, it ought to be MAGIC interior the 1st place. As you will see that, the info (above and previous all the FMRI learn and Genetic learn) showing that theism is a type of psychological ailment is barely extra suitable by ability of attempting to speak logically with theists.

Answer 4

There is no beginning and no end. I believe that God once lived on an earth that existed before ours. Maybe he was the savior to that world. I try not to think about it too much because infinty is mind boggling.

Answer 5

God is eternal. God always has been. God is the First Cause of everything.

Answer 6

God himself.

Answer 7

What is known as "god" by the abrahamic religions was created by angels. It did not create the universe or anything else for that matter.

Answer 8

Something snapped and then evolution took care of the rest!...

Sorry for the explicit! men invented God, the clergy and preachers make money on it and hardly anybody cares to find out how we got here!

Answer 9

(raises hand) Sorry about that. How could I have known that this God thing was going to cause so much controversy?

Answer 10

God just is. No beginning, No End. It's hard for our minds to wrap around that but I believe it to be true.