How can, even God, create something out of nothing?

Question

Some people suggest that it's like God is a four or five dimensional being, and can manipulate time, matter, much like we can manipulate a piece of parer.

But even we did not create the materials that the paper was made from.

If God was somewhere at some time, where did he get the material from to create the universe?

Is everything really imaginary, and not real - we are just the active product of a higher dimensional beings imagination?

Some cosmic "Matrix?"

I mean, I know that Christians will say that The Bible says God is, such and such, but that doesn't address even one hint of the question. How, scientifically, can something come from nothing?

Kazoo, you MUST be a Christian...

Typical.

Why are you so very and immediately ready and willing to concede that so many things are "unanswerable"?

No wonder you people suppressed science and reading for so long.

Shame!

Answer 1

First off God Created, Time, space and matter and is the Un-caused cause, so your premise is false,be side's God made the rules hes the rule giver ,its not that hard to understand.

Answer 2

The Longer that we live on earth the more that we discover about life. Sometimes we just have to have faith to get our answers. If there was no faith, the Wright Brothers would have never tried to fly, or Bell would never have tried to transfer sound over a wire or Franklin would not have searched for the light bulb. As we advance as people we are finding that so far there are I believe the last was 12 or 14 dimensions. When we get out of our dimension the physics change and things are different. They respond differently to each other. So all I can tell you is to have the faith of all of the people that have discovered things and believe. Then you will find your answer. I have and I am a Christian.

Answer 3

According to Stephen Hawking, time simply doesn't exist in the state before the Big Bang. It's like trying to go more North than the North Pole. It can't happen.


And for the thought about being the product of someone else's imagination, you're delving into the world of philosophy and questions of how do you know if you even exist. In the end, you never can be sure, but that's no reason not to live

Answer 4

Since you are smart enough to pose this question, I can't understand why you aren't smart enough to see your answer right there in the question.

"In the Beginning God Created the heavens and earth" Gen 1:1
"In the beginning the Word was with God and the Word the Word was God" John 1

Nowhere in the Bible does it say that God created anything from nothing. Everything He created He created from Himself.

Answer 5

Because He is God my friend. He created everything, including all the Laws that hold this Universe together. You can't study Him with science, but you can, like me, allow Him to free you from the "Matrix" of this world. God Bless

Answer 6

E=MC2 Einstin showed that this was true. You can use this to show how matter can come from energy, M=E/C2
Isaiah40:26 shows us how this fits in with God.
 “Raise YOUR eyes high up and see. Who has created these things? It is the One who is bringing forth the army of them even by number, all of whom he calls even by name. Due to the abundance of dynamic energy, he also being vigorous in power, not one [of them] is missing.
Since Jehovah God is full of energy, he has all he needs to create matter in what ever form he wants to.
Scientists have learned that matter is a concentrated form of energy. This is demonstrated with the explosion of nuclear weapons. Astrophysicist Josip Kleczek states: “Most and possibly all elementary particles may be created by materialization of energy.”—The Universe (Boston, 1976), Vol. 11, p. 17.

From where could such energy come? After asking, “Who has created these things [the stars and planets]?”, the Bible states regarding Jehovah God, “Due to the abundance of dynamic energy, he also being vigorous in power, not one of them is missing.” (Isa. 40:26) So God himself is the Source of all the “dynamic energy” that was needed to create the universe.

Answer 7

'Scientifically' it can't. God is the creator of all 'science'. The only restrictions on what He can do are self-imposed.

He has no dimension. He is not hindered by time, space, or matter. He merely spoke and it came to be. (See the first chapter of Genesis)

A God who can be explained by our little minds is no God at all!

Answer 8

And what a fantastic and wonderful question you have raised.

You know Atheists have to answer the same question. At some point, there was nothing, then there was something. Whether God was involved or not.

You get a star. Happy new year.

Answer 9

'An outrageously great question.

That physics and theology and philosophy must come to an accord is evident. For of reality and idealism, there presents no demarcation; only is there two and more expressions of one greatest and common underlying foundation.

"Some people suggest [...]" you say...

Herewith we must ask, -- Is "some" a sufficient number; further, how many is "some." Just who are these people who make these suggestions; this, in light of the presentation here of so limiting a measure, as to say God is a "four or five dimensional being." Can anyone truly embrace a compass that so far exceeds him or her: I mean to say, is God truly at most a five-dimensional being?

Let us draw out a picture here: how might one's hands give to another person an understanding and provide meaning of what the Mind is that you now are well-apprised of the Mind and the other person, if he or she did not know before, now knows? It is wholly impossible you will agree...

Nothing of the hands can explain to you the sophistication of the Mind; nor the Mind, the sophistication of the Heart. The one above so far exceeds the one below that the lesser cannot possibly contain the entirety of the greater.

Thus what basis have those who suggest, from which they may derive the truths with exactitude, and that you can now build upon that will not sooner or later collapse?

You 'are' on to something here where you inquire—“Is everything really imaginary, and not real - we are just the active product of a higher dimensional beings imagination?"

There is some measure of noteworthy observation and reflection in this and in this line of inquiry and perception.

'And here again, "If God was somewhere at some time, where did he get the material from to create the universe [...] "Some cosmic matrix?" Atoms are so brilliantly intelligent that they can affect to be just about anything they do choose to be as so directed.

You are on to something here indeed because you are providing yourself questions rather than merely seeking answers. Answers are comparatively little, for they are only sing posts along the way -- crucial to the journey, yes, but not all-important.

It is the journey itself that imports.

Somewhere deep to your reflection you may derive the answers I am convinced.

Put aside theology, physics, philosophy and above all, put aside what "they suggest," and displace all their assumptions you have thus far been given by those elsewhere who purport to know. The resolves are or may well be only appearance, not evidence. I shall add here that evidence as we know it or could demand of it for sake of veracity may as well be flawed -- and quite frankly quite possibly is illusory.

Another point again: "Christians will say that The Bible says God is, such and such, but that doesn't address even one hint of the question."

’Agreed, 100%. "Christians will say [...]"

What do you say? You, within, are the master and expert but only unto yourself, for once outside yourself you chance being at once only appearance to another -- so unique is each individual. 'Relativism and looping notwithstanding. Abidance to uniqueness is what the universes imports that gives form and function and purpose and wholeness to life. That symbiosis along with intent comprises the Fabric out of which flows reality and ideas and composes life into crystallizations that make themselves known and thus perceptive to the otherwise imperceptive.

And this implication is to be considered true also of the Bible, incidentally. That is, the Bible used as the sole basis and reference is far too limiting, for much within it is an interpretation of an interpretation of an interpretation, for we do not have within it the true words of Jesus but those of apostles and scribes, who put into writing facsimiles of it over the course of two millennia, then made solid. The rest is the case of Spirit using opportunity as it arises -- without prejudice!

What is important here -- and this insight is essential -- is for anyone to see that Spirit is not unlike water, which seeks its own level. I mean to say here -- to the extent the reader of the Bible or any Scripture, for that matter, is led to believe outright in some greater quality is in itself sufficient for Spirit to move in and take an opportunity to accord those who are open to Truths, regardless of the bias, and it would matter not what religion is the person's or what reference that person or soul uses to be apprised of Spirit’s ways.

By your intention of wanting to know what you are wanting to know assures that you will know it, verily, eventually. This sometimes occurs with lightning speed.

Finally, "How, scientifically, can something come from nothing?"

This line of inquiry qualifies the limit and basis already: to wit, "How, scientifically [...]?

Scarcely has science cornered any center of exchange on Truth.

"How scientifically [is it]?" Little if at all would be your answer.

Science has no more the province on truth than any theologian or philosopher -- or physical scientist. We have to consider just what our understanding conveys as to what constitutes "something" and what underlies "nothing."

A finer measure is, only that so many agree to agree just what underscores the assumptions and meanings of any constitution and what that is, may that agreement be esteemed valid or better yet, postulated to be true. Bear in mind that much of what we know to be truths are in practice but mere consensual realities, which in themselves are appearances, relative bits of supposed evidence. While a truth it may be today, it had as easily be an untruth tomorrow -- this can be true of just one dimension, not many, and extant long before we will have begun to dabble with four or five or more dimensions.

Answer 10

It can't be answered scientifically. It's all about faith. It's like in that movie when the religious guy said "do you love your father? prove it". Nothing you can say or do can really prove it. It just is.