I'm not exactly sure how to pose this question and have it come across clear. I'm wondering how it all began. Correct me if I'm wrong, but everything in the Bible is written after Earth was Earth?? So how did God become God?? How did the planets become planets? The stars become stars? Air become air?? Was it a cosmic being? What does the Big Bang Theory have to do with everything (if it has anything to do with anything)?
I'm sitting back picturing a big black nothing scenario. Now what?? What was the process? What do you believe happened? What are the studies and theories of how "IT" all began??
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Can you explain physics to a baby ? Thats how much chance you and I have of understanding how God created everything
No doubt.
It's simple, NY - ok, you have nothing, then it explodes. Bam, there's your earth.
Actually, I've often wondered the same thing. I ponder the theory astrologists have had for years about seeing a star in the sky and it's actually an entire galaxy. How many layers can you get to - think about it. With this comes the thought of maybe we aren't the first "earth" that has taken place. Maybe God has always been out there as the head or ruler of some far away alien world and this earth thing was nothing more than an experiment. Or perhaps it's a hobby of his - create an earth, watch it grow for a while, throw some beings on it, watch them over the course of a few thousand years destroy themselves and the planet, wipe the rest of it out with a meteor, it all blows to bits and becomes stars for another galaxy. Why not? God does not know time, so a few billion years or whatever would be nothing. In Genesis, it talks about a void. God was "out there" in this void. But a void is nothing, so where was God? You can't really think about it because whatever was out there had to have a place to be kept, right? But a void, nothing. Hmmmm. Glad I'm not the only one that thinks about this kind of stuff.
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God is eternal. He always was and always will be. He is outside of time and knows no limits. He created everything, but doesn't tell us how since we can't even imagine how powerful He is and what it must have taken to do it.
It's true that everything is the Bible is written after He created the earth because that's the only part that's relevent to us. What He did BEFORE He created the earth is His business and He doesn't concern us with it. Like Badshotbob, I've wondered what God did before creating us and if He's done this many times before. I don't know the answer to that, but He may reveal that to us in Heaven.
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RE: How did God become God??
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I beleive God is eternal which is a concept beyond the human mind. I also beleive He works though all the laws of physics/nature that He Himself set up. When science expalins something its does not dismiss God in my opinion. Science has simply shown how God chose to do it. God created all natural laws to shape Creation as he sees fit.
I feel the same. This explains the dynamics of the now. As for the idea of what was before was existed, who knows. Not a clue. I guess we will know when we get to the pearly gates.
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NY, great question and I have no answer but another question that may make sense of your question.
Why did every culture on the planet regardless of location come up with some form of a god or gods.
Now one could say that is because we are all descendents and related. The thought is not several but one from the origin but I think not. That does not fly or all the gods would be a spin off of God and they are not.
All cultures had a faith or fear or worshiped some god, some thing to explain all the things that could not be explained.
Did God exist before thought or did God create thought?
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Well, seeing as my religious beliefs are very controversial, I could tell you what I believe if you send me a private message or e-mail me at Sir_huntsalotlphs@yahoo.com
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