Where does God come from?

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By Hope
@1hopefulman (45120)
Canada
June 18, 2018 10:55am CST
Where did God come from? Where does God come from? Who created God? Have you ever wondered about this? What do you think? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Of course some might say that God does not exist and it is just an invention of the human mind. For some of us that does not make sense. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here are some of my thoughts on the subject. Nothing comes from nothing. Something cannot come from nothing. God is the original something. God came from nowhere. God always exists. The God who always exists tells us that in the pages of the Bible. Psalm 90:1-2 King James Version (KJV) 90 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
18 Jun 18
What you are talking about is the concept of 'God' that humans have (or don't have, as the case may be). It's valid to ask where that came from because it's valid to imagine a time before that concept existed in our minds. There can be no time before the thing that our concept tries to relate to because it, in itself, is time, space, matter, energy and everything that is. If you can rid your mind entirely of the temporal concept - that there was a time before something happened; a time before you were born, before humanity existed, before the Earth was created or before the "Big Bang" - if you can understand that there is no 'before' or 'after' or 'during', then you may have begun to understand God. Be careful, though! Very few have trodden that path and remained what we call 'sane'!
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
18 Jun 18
Some interesting thoughts to think about. Thanks for expressing your thoughts. I'll try not to go insane.
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Jun 18
Yes, thinking about such things with "enhancements" in my youth was a bit dangerous.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
18 Jun 18
@TheHorse I think writing things down stops the insanity process. At least I hope so!
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@LadyDuck (471324)
• Switzerland
19 Jun 18
I agree with @owlwings, we must think keeping in mind that there is no "before" and "after" or "during". It is not something easy to imagine for a human mind. We should not ask "where he comes from" because he should have always been.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
19 Jun 18
True! I find that asking, helps me to reason, and that helps me to understand just a bit better which is enough to keep me going.
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@LadyDuck (471324)
• Switzerland
19 Jun 18
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Jun 18
I enjoy unanswerable questions. The Big Bang cannot have been "the beginning," because, as you say, nothing comes from nothing. If there is a God, he/she (projections of our own notions of gender) is by definition omniscient and omnipotent, and cannot have a beginning or end.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
18 Jun 18
Thanks for sharing those thoughts. There is so much in existence for it to come from nothing. It has to come from something that has the potential to produce things and God is something that has always existed and will always exist. While I do enjoy discussing the weather and what one had for breakfast, I also like to go where it gives some work to the brain.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
22 Jun 18
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Jun 18
@1hopefulman Yes, it is rather refreshing.
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
19 Jun 18
He is our creator and has existed forever. I'm a believer.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
19 Jun 18
Me too!
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
27 Jun 18
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@just4him (317040)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
19 Jun 18
Those verses sum up God's existence very well. He always was, and he always will be.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
19 Jun 18
Yes, God is the beginner with no beginning. We might have a hard time understanding that but we still don't understand photosynthesis which is happening all around us and all the time, electricity, the process of the development of a baby, etc.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
21 Jun 18
@just4him So true!
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@just4him (317040)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
20 Jun 18
@1hopefulman True, God is so awesome to create everything we need to live and enjoy life.
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@mlgen1037 (29886)
• Manila, Philippines
18 Jun 18
Hi Felix. For me, God has no beginning and no end. From that, I do not doubt, hence I believe.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
18 Jun 18
I'm on the same path. Next step is to get to know God well.
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@mlgen1037 (29886)
• Manila, Philippines
19 Jun 18
@1hopefulman Thank you, Felix. Yes, you are right. What do you do to know God well?
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
19 Jun 18
@mlgen1037 Good question! What I do is: pray; read the Bible; observe nature; think/meditate; and reason. No doubt you do about the same?
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@buenavida (9984)
• Sweden
19 Jun 18
We can see that the universe, with perfect order exists..and everything on earth - including us, shows a person with an intelligence, that is impossible for us to understand, but we still have to accept that he exists, as we can see it all around us.. n
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@buenavida (9984)
• Sweden
21 Jun 18
@1hopefulman Yes, he has explained so many important things for us, like a loving Father..
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
22 Jun 18
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
21 Jun 18
Then He revealed himself and explains himself in a personal letter (the Bible) What more could we want?
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@momalisa65 (1971)
• United States
19 Jun 18
It’s hard for us to understand because everything that we humans have ever seen has had a beginning. It’s hard to imagine someone not having a beginning. We just have to believe God because he knows more than we do, and he said he has always existed.
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• United States
20 Jun 18
@1hopefulman One thing I find fascinating that I don’t understand is how the internet and email work. The way that I can take a picture on my phone and send it in an email and it shows up on someone else’s computer. Or even how I’m typing on my ipad right now and you are going to read what I am writing on your computer. Amazing. And that’s just something that man created. No wonder we can’t understand the amazing things that God can do!
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
21 Jun 18
@momalisa65 The interesting thing is that we don't have to understand something to appreciate and enjoy it.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
19 Jun 18
True! What I find interesting is that even some things that I see happening all the time, I really still don't understand, such things as: a seed growing into a tree: electricity; the production/development pf a baby; etc.
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@rakski (122288)
• Philippines
24 Jun 18
God is has no bed=ginning and no end. It is something that Science cannot explain.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
24 Jun 18
Yes, we don't have to understand something to appreciate it. That certainly applies to God. We can appreciate and love him without fully understanding him.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
24 Jun 18
@rakski Glad you agree! I don't now how a computer works but enjoy using it. I don't know how a tree makes delicious cherries but enjoy eating them. I don't understand everything about God but understand enough to love him and obey him.
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@rakski (122288)
• Philippines
24 Jun 18
@1hopefulman very true
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@innertalks (21905)
• Australia
21 Jun 18
If we walk on a road leading us nowhere, that is where we will end up. Nowhere is everywhere, though when you walk with God
Nothing always leads to nothing unless somebody builds a road to it. God has built such a road. God is the road. Love was born on a wing of a dove, and God saw that it was good. God saw, because he loved, and God was love, when he saw. What is God, but the life of nothing coming to life in nothing from nothing, as love loving something into life. Spontaneous energy comes alive when it supplants itself into itself. God did this by creating within himself. God was God because nothing never existed. There has always been something, and this is God. Photo Credit: The photo used here was freely sourced from the free media site: pixabay.com. If we walk on a road leading us nowhere, that is where we will end up. Nowhere is everywhere, though when you walk with God. There is nowhere where God's isn't , or his presence can't be felt.
@innertalks (21905)
• Australia
22 Jun 18
@Shiva49 Yes, I agree. If God wasn't everywhere, it would mean that something exists outside of God, and to me, that doesn't seem possible. God is at the bottom of every well, and at its top too.
@Shiva49 (26665)
• Singapore
22 Jun 18
I do believe God is everywhere and is present in his creations including us. The divine love and energy is the manifestation of the divine being, omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, and permanent - siva
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@Shiva49 (26665)
• Singapore
22 Jun 18
@innertalks, When we live with the awareness that everything is divine, then our lives will take on a higher meaning and purpose - siva
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@saurabhrmp (2283)
• Hyderabad, India
18 Jun 18
I am a Hindu religion person and i also believe that God was already exist and they only made this world as well as human beings.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
18 Jun 18
I appreciate hearing from a person of a different religion. It is interesting tat we share a similar viewpoint!
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• India
18 Jun 18
God is the creator of whole universe. He existed before the creation of the universe and he is omnipresent. He can put a stop to anything but He himself is the one who will continue to exist
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
19 Jun 18
Yes, no beginning and no ending and that can mean wonderful blessings for us.
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@Daelii (5619)
• United States
18 Jun 18
Its hard to see/understand how nothing can create something --- nothing in a sense of a world where god may have been "born" or existed. How did God come to be? couldn't there have been something before that? then how did that get there? Or even the big bang for that mater! Yes.... I've thought about it a lot... and taken many classes trying to understand that. I love the study of philosophy and religion. My personal thoughts? everything seems to make sense and come to a pattern in a theoretical perspective - like dna.. it just seems like a physical version of htlm (coding to make websites); everything has a pattern so to speak. Everything. The world beyond ours too! So I fully believe we were created by God, I don't believe we are God's only children or creations. There is a mighty big world out there beyond our solar system. There is much we don't know. I also don't think we need to know it all. I think there is much we forgot about God. I don't believe the bible has the only answers. I do believe Jesus came to earth to help redirect us back to God. I do believe the power of Ying / Yang.. That God's enemy is very real. They don't mind wolves cloaked as sheep to redirect holy followers from God by manipulation our perception of God and the holy word (bible).
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
19 Jun 18
I enjoyed reading your thoughts/observations/reasoning! We are still little children when it comes to knowledge and look at what we are capable of doing. We can only imagine what can be ahead. Knowledge is one thing and wisdom is another. God has both. We need him as our guide/instructor/provider, etc.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
19 Jun 18
@Daelii Yes, we need him and we always will. We are on a beautiful journey. Since God designed us, then he put curiosity in us for a reason. We do not need to rush. No, I did not see that video.
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@Daelii (5619)
• United States
19 Jun 18
@1hopefulman we definitely need him. I don't think it really maters how he came to be, even if it is interesting to ponder. What really maters is finding our own personal path to get to god! I don't know if you saw the semi recent video clip of the boy who asked the pope if his father would be in heaven.....as a nonbeliever that baptised his kids...
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@Icydoll (36717)
• India
18 Jun 18
God is the creator..he exists..I believe it strongly..our lives are the example for his existence
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
18 Jun 18
I follow the same logic. Next step is to get to know God well.
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@LeaPea2417 (37350)
• Toccoa, Georgia
22 Jun 18
God has always existed. It is too mind boggling to comprehend, but it is true.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
22 Jun 18
I'm with you!
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@porwest (90118)
• United States
26 Jun 18
I could never buy into that. Everything is coincidental except for God? And that makes sense? Sorry, I could never hear that story and go, "Yeah, makes perfect sense." Do I want God to exist? Of course. But the explanation that God simply exists out of nothing while nothing else can just seems to me to be wishful thinking, hopes and dreams, fiction, and gobbledygook without much real intelligent thought behind it.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
26 Jun 18
I used to think like that at one point in my life but I have given this topic a lot of time and thought. The intelligence, the design and complexity in the universe leads me to appreciating that there has to be a first cause (God) and that cause is everlasting, uncreated. I have and show no disrespect for anyone that thinks differently and appreciate every response and seriously think and reason on every point of view presented. I have listened to the best of the best and choose my own path, though there are many on this path.
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