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Dillon88

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For a lot of non believers of every sort I run into this question a lot, " where did god come from or how did god come about?
It seems a lot people like to give an elementary response like " just look around you!
Or some non believers ask who created god.
So I have spent some time creating the best answer I can with ought being to elementary to give a precise explanation and I would like some feed back as to see if I'm giving a good response , here it is!

Although there is no specific answer as to where did god come from, as a Christian we live our lives dedicated to reaching salvation or eternal life so we must believe first in the son of god " jesus" and dedicate ourselves to learning the gospel of Jesus Christ and becoming washed in the blood ( saved/babtised) and believing he died on the cross to save us from sin and resurrected ! I state that the gospel tells us that the only way to meet the father is through the son so it's like this, there was a time when you didn't know or had never seen me so therefor to you I never existed , you never knew me but just for example through your friend or even through work now you have had the oppertunity to meet me and get to know me so therefor as Christians we live our lives for that special day that we can meet god and ask those mystery questions.

As to best answer for where did god come from? I found this to be the best response " Answer: A common argument from atheists and skeptics is that if all things need a cause, then God must also need a cause. The conclusion is that if God needed a cause, then God is not God (and if God is not God, then of course there is no God). This is a slightly more sophisticated form of the basic question “Who made God?” Everyone knows that something does not come from nothing. So, if God is a “something,” then He must have a cause, right?

The question is tricky because it sneaks in the false assumption that God came from somewhere and then asks where that might be. The answer is that the question does not even make sense. It is like asking, “What does blue smell like?” Blue is not in the category of things that have a smell, so the question itself is flawed. In the same way, God is not in the category of things that are created or caused. God is uncaused and uncreated—He simply exists.

How do we know this? We know that from nothing, nothing comes. So, if there were ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence, then nothing would have ever come into existence. But things do exist. Therefore, since there could never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been in existence. That ever-existing thing is what we call God. God is the uncaused Being that caused everything else to come into existence. God is the uncreated Creator who created the universe and everything in it.
 
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[h=1]How is God Omnipotent, Omnipresent, and Omniscient?[/h] Many have heard about God, but wonder about His existence, omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience. To learn more about this, let's start with the Bible.
The Bible teaches:
24 God is Spirit (John 4:24).
Because God is spirit, this helps explain why God is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. Notice a couple of comments from two books:
Both God and the Word (who became Christ) have existed eternally and before all else. From them emanates the Spirit of God, by which God is omnipresent and omniscient. God the Father is the divine Father of the God family, into which truly converted Christians shall be born. (Mystery of the Ages. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York. 1985 ,p. 57)
"In the Beginning-GOD" God had to be there first because He made everything that ever was. (Genesis 1: 1.) Probably one of the first things you wonder about God is where He came from. He didn't come from anywhere. He has always existed.' It is hard for us to understand. We must remember that "the secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever" (Deuteronomy 29:29). God always was and He always will be. (Revelation 1:8.) (Wolverton B. RadioCG, 1961, pp. 2-3)
God has always existed. [FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]Notice also what God's name is: [/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]13 Then Moses said to God, "Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they say to me, 'What is His name?' what shall I say to them?" 14 And God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." And He said, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'" (Exodus 3:13-15) [/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]Before there was a universe, there was God. An article of related interest may be Where Did God Come From?[/FONT]
 
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[h=2]God is Omnipotent and Omnipresent[/h] In 2007, Wallace Smith had an article published titled God and the "Three 'O's. It begins with:
Is God omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient? In answering such questions, we should always begin with another question: “What does the Bible teach on these matters?” If our beliefs are not rooted in God’s inspired word, they are not beliefs worth having!...
[h=2]Is God Omnipotent?[/h] This is, perhaps, the easiest of the three to answer: Yes, God is omnipotent! There is even a verse that, in the King James Version and New King James Version, uses this very word: “Alleluia! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns!” (Revelation 19:6).
The Greek word translated as “Omnipotent” here is pantokrator, meaning “All-ruling” or (as it is more frequently translated) “Almighty.” When we say God is “Almighty,” we are stating our belief in His authority and rulership over all creation, and the Bible is firm in declaring this fact. Even though Satan is now the “god of this age” (2 Corinthians 4:4), it belongs to him only because Almighty God has granted it to Him: “And the devil said to Him, ‘All this authority [over all the kingdoms of this world] I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish’” (Luke 4:6).
It is God who ultimately reigns in the universe, and all legitimate authority must derive from Him. If we let Scripture tell us of God’s authority, we must agree that He has all authority to do all His pleasure (Isaiah 46:10–11), and to see to the fulfillment of His plans without fail. If we accept the Scriptural definition of “almighty”—and we must accept no other!—we can rightly call God omnipotent. Indeed, Christ says clearly that “with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26).
However, if we were to insist that omnipotent meant God could do anything and everything at all, we would need to reject that description, because His word says He cannot! For example, God “cannot lie” (Titus 1:2), and He “cannot deny Himself” (2 Timothy 2:13). The Bible clearly shows that God cannot act contrary to His nature. But do these “cannots” mean He is not omnipotent—not almighty? Not if we let Scripture define its own terms!
There is no limit to the power of God. A search I did in the NKJV revealed that God was referred to as "Almighty" 48 times in the Hebrew scriptures and 9 times in the Greek scriptures, a total of 57 mentions in the Holy Bible. This is a point that God wants humankind to clearly understand.
 
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popeye

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Apparently He also created time,and since time is a factor in the OP,Where would one proceed from there,no pun intended