Where Did God Come From

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iwant2serve

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This is a question I have wondered since I was a kid. I even asked my parents and that blew them away. It shocked them so much that the sent me to the Pastor who was like wow. But I didn't get an answer from him either. This is a question that I won't get an answer till I get to see my Father for myself. But what do you guys think.
 
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1still_waters

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I dunno. That's what makes him God.
 
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hey why not go deeper than! that does Eve have a belly button? God gave us what we needed to know of Him and His love in the scriptures, these questions can not be answered , just write them all down on a list , and If u are saved, you can asked God when you get there, if they will still matter once you get there.
 
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I have no idea what this question is asking....it seems to be a contradiction or a tangled thought...

Space and time does not exist until something is created...

God being eternal therefore 'came from' or 'comes from' no place or time...if you were looking for a place or time in that thought :"where did he come from?"

But spiritually the only answer to be given is he comes from himself...He is self-sufficient so he depends on no 'come from', he has always been, was always, and will always be God...though everything else pass away...

God bless you
tony
 
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iwant2serve said:
This is a question I have wondered since I was a kid. I even asked my parents and that blew them away. It shocked them so much that the sent me to the Pastor who was like wow. But I didn't get an answer from him either. This is a question that I won't get an answer till I get to see my Father for myself. But what do you guys think.
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This might help answer your question. Look them up and hide them in your heart.

(Ex 9:14, Is 46:9, Is 45:7, 1Kgs 8:23, Deut 33:27, 1John 5:20, Prov 8:22-29, Ex 3:13,14, Rev 1:8,11, 21:6, 22 13, Col 1:16,17, Rev 4:11)
 
MahogonySnail

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God by definition, is the uncreated creator of everything. Therefore the question "where did God come from" is irrelevant and doesn't really make sense
 
iwant2serve

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To answer all the critis out there. I am glad I am a mature christian who is called by God to minister the Gospel. I myself know that God is eternal and self exsist. I am also aware that this question has no answer that any human can answer. But for you who are pastors and ministers of the gospel you need to seek God before responding to any threads on here. If I was a babe in Christ a lot of these answer would have torn me apart. So all the smart sarcastic answers just show where you are in Christ your selves. God bless you all and remember there are people who come her with questions like this and others that we may not be able to answer, but we have to be led by the Holy Spirit when responding.
 
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BLC said:
This might help answer your question. Look them up and hide them in your heart.

(Ex 9:14, Is 46:9, Is 45:7, 1Kgs 8:23, Deut 33:27, 1John 5:20, Prov 8:22-29, Ex 3:13,14, Rev 1:8,11, 21:6, 22 13, Col 1:16,17, Rev 4:11)
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Thank you for using swisdom with your answer. This was a question to see how the responses would be. So again thank you wor using wisdom.
 
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thefightinglamb said:
I have no idea what this question is asking....it seems to be a contradiction or a tangled thought...

Space and time does not exist until something is created...

God being eternal therefore 'came from' or 'comes from' no place or time...if you were looking for a place or time in that thought :"where did he come from?"

But spiritually the only answer to be given is he comes from himself...He is self-sufficient so he depends on no 'come from', he has always been, was always, and will always be God...though everything else pass away...

God bless you
tony
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Good answer
 
iwant2serve

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Thaddaeus said:
hey why not go deeper than! that does Eve have a belly button? God gave us what we needed to know of Him and His love in the scriptures, these questions can not be answered , just write them all down on a list , and If u are saved, you can asked God when you get there, if they will still matter once you get there.
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As that you are a pastor I am shocked at your reply.
 
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iwant2serve said:
To answer all the critis out there. I am glad I am a mature christian who is called by God to minister the Gospel. I myself know that God is eternal and self exsist. I am also aware that this question has no answer that any human can answer. But for you who are pastors and ministers of the gospel you need to seek God before responding to any threads on here. If I was a babe in Christ a lot of these answer would have torn me apart. So all the smart sarcastic answers just show where you are in Christ your selves. God bless you all and remember there are people who come her with questions like this and others that we may not be able to answer, but we have to be led by the Holy Spirit when responding.
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Were you able to look up any of those scriptures and did 'God's word' about Himself help you find an answer? It is an awesome privilege that we can know Him, the only wise God.
 
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Greetings,

GOD is eternal, He is as He has descibed Himself - everlasting and everliving, He is not subject to the law of Time, because He constructed Time itself, all else in the universe is subject to time and so has a beginning and an end. God is not bound by any law of the physical universe and as Creator He is in control of all aspects of His Creation, so whatever the known limits are for us as humans in God's universe, God exists outside and beyond what is possible for us to know as well as in everything that we can possibly know at the same time.

The answer to the question is that it is beyond our present limited understanding to be able to define a place as to where God is from, other than 'The Eternal' which would be somewhere existing outside all known boundries and laws such as space and time, so where the 'Eternal' is that is where God, as far as a human can tell, is from.
 
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There are some things we can never fully understand with our very limited human ability to know. One of these things is God himself. Seeing as there is only one God, we can't really compare him to anything else that we know of. We could say he is like this is some ways, or that he is not like this in other ways, but whatever we compare him to will be inadequate in describing who he is. That's the thing: he is the Creator, and all other things are creatures. How can the Creator be compared to his creatures without losing his awesomeness in the process of this comparrison?

One of the qualities or characteristics of God is that he is eternal...he is, always was, and always shall be. He has no origin, no beginning, and no end. We can not say "This is where/when God began" because in order to begin, there has to have been a time when God was not. In order to begin, then it would make sense too to say that there will be a time when God ends. The great mystery that is hard to understand is that he simply is. God is. God has been. God will be. God is the creator of all things, and nothing created him: he just is.

The nature of how God is (the Trinity) is almost as complicated, but that isn't what you asked about. All we can really know is that God is. As he said himself: "I AM." That is a clue itself: He is, and above all, he is all. He is existence itself and is the origin of all other things which exist. This falls into the "It will make sense when you die and come face to face with God" category. If you think about it too long, your head just might explode.
 
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When asked where God came from, people will answer that God is eternal, but that doesn't really solve the problem. Saying that something has always existed doesn't help to explain why it exists.

Others will confuse the matter with semantics, deeming God to be "self-sufficient" or insisting that He "comes from Himself" (whatever that means).

In other words, no one has ever come up with a persuasive answer to the question.
 
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Skeptickler said:
When asked where God came from, people will answer that God is eternal, but that doesn't really solve the problem. Saying that something has always existed doesn't help to explain why it exists.

Others will confuse the matter with semantics, deeming God to be "self-sufficient" or insisting that He "comes from Himself" (whatever that means).

In other words, no one has ever come up with a persuasive answer to the question.
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Nail on the head, as far as I'm concerned.
 
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God came from New Jersey. Don't ARGUE with me!
 
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Okay, if he asked me why God exists? That would be a far different question.

He/she didn't ask that...

Why? Is impossible to answer for anything, much more God? Why do frogs exist? Why do flowers exist? Where do flowers come from?
Why are skies blue? Why do humans exist?
Why is a pointless question...
But I did answer where God comes from as far as it can't be answered...
No one perhaps has ever satisfied the question of where anything came from; if you say a big bang, what causes the bang, what was on the sides of the bang to allow it to expand? But space and time didn't exist until after this theoretical big-bang...but even science is inadequete to investigate beginnings or 'comes from'...

But if you look at yourself...the same reasoning exists...where do you spiritually come from, yourself...

Foe example, if you show someone a part of you that is you and they ask where that came from, truthfully you can only answer yourself...

I tried to explain that that question doesn't have and cannot have an orgin, you fail to see what the question asks.

I hope you 'skeptics' search for God instead of just delighting in meaningless questions...

Here is another one that Martin Luther said God created eternal fire for--those who ask "WHat was God doing before he created anything?" Another pointless question, as it has no content as Immanuel Kant stressed in some of his works.

God bless
tony
 
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I agree that why wasn't asked - i guess what I was trying to say is that it is a question much more pertinent to my discourse with christians.

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Why is a pointless question...
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In my plentiful discussions with christians, the 'why' of our being has lead them to invoke God. The requirement of a purpose, or intention, behind human life has been the mainstay of many of the debate, outreach, or evangelical arguments I've come across.
 
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