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Where did God come from?
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If someone else had created God, that person would be the Creator.
As the Bible explains, God is the one who created all things. Furthermore, we know that the universe at one time did not exist. Genesis 1:1, 2
Where did it come from? Its Creator had to exist first. He also existed before there were any other intelligent beings, such as his only-begotten Son and the angels. Colossians 1:15
Clearly, then, he existed alone first. He could not have been created; nothing was in existence that could have created him.
Our own existence and that of the entire universe testifies to the existence of an eternal God.
The One who put our vast universe in motion, the One who established the laws to control it, must have always existed.
Only he could have breathed life into everything else.
BJ explained the answer very well. I want to add to it by using a favorite illustration.
We, all of us, are unique. Even multiple identical births are different because their experiences, decisions, both good and bad, are theirs alone, even from the womb.
I remember reading about newborn twin boys that were put in separate cribs, and while one was doing ok, the other was getting sick, even close to death, until an insightful nurse put them in the same crib. After he noticed that his brother, who he knew for months, was at his side, he began to regain his health, and eventually, they were both healthy enough to go home. Same DNA, but one needed his brother more.
Our individual uniqueness is understandable by most of us, but some of us do not want to give our Creator the same consideration. Some think that if everything else has a beginning, then God MUST have one as well. But His not having a beginning is the unique thing about Him. "From everlasting to everlasting you are God."
We are now able to see and count the over 360 fine tuning constants in our universe. These constants demonstrate that Someone has a far-seeing plan for His handiwork. They also require that whoever created us must have tremendous power, and a complex understanding about what it takes to create a working universe. "Panspermia" and "multiple universes" all have to eventually have a beginning. But our Eternal Intelligent Creator is the only one with the ability to bring his plan to complete fulfillment. So these are logical reasons to believe that this ONE and ONLY CREATOR does not have a beginning.
God is an ever existing eternal supreme being. All human beings are created beings. (The word 'created' is self-explanatory.) That doesn't comes under natural way of life. Humans are not natural but unnatural beings. I mean humans are just robots made of flesh and bones. There may be several eternal beings which knew neither death nor birth and God must be the chief of these eternal beings. IN FACT THIS IS THE REAL EVER EXISTING PHENOMENON. Human beings can think only like human beings. Their thoughts and intelligence are limited. To know and discover more they must come out of what religions and people have created in their minds and think freely and independently.
Hello, Roberta.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
This clearly refers to God's activity at the beginning of creation. Here we learn of a being who existed before creation took place, so we actually start before the beginning, outside of time and space in eternity. If we want to understand who Jesus is, John says, we must begin with the relationship shared between the Father and the Son "before the world began" (Jn 17:5, 24).
God didn't "come from" anywhere. He has always existed. If He "came from" somewhere, then that place would have to exist before He did, and nothing existed before God, Who is the Creator of all things.
We learn God had no beginning or end
He is the alpha and omega
Limitless
The term 'God' implies, an 'Eternal Being', thus is without "beginning and end". The question is like asking, "how did water become wet?", and not knowing that 'wetness' is an inherent quality of 'H2O'. The human mind and intellect cannot comprehend or conceive of the 'Enormity and Magnitude of Divinity', which is how we know God cannot be a man-made concept.
However, humans have the capacity to intuit and become aware of the things we cannot observe by the effect and influence on the things we can (i.e., what is called "dark" matter and energy). Just because you cannot put 'potential' in a lab and measure it, isn't any reason to suppose "it isn't there". That is how ancient man came to have some semblance of meaning and understanding of the Nature of God.
He has no origin. He is eternal and immortal.
1 Timothy 1:17 KJV — Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
It's a great question, of course, and one that is impossible to answer with our finite minds. The best ideas I have ever come across are in the Apocryphon of John, a gnostic text that was omitted from the Bible in the early years of the church because it did not suit the men in charge.
God’s eternal. He never had a beginning and He wouldn’t have an ending.