God's Beginning

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My husband and I were discussing our respective faiths and he believes that God was create and has siblings. His argument is that God must have siblings or he wouldn’t know how to make a female. Man is made in his likeness. My husband is mormon so he believes that literally. But women are not in Gods likeness so how would he know what to make if he didn’t have sisters?

I believe that God had no beginning and has no end. My husband thinks that would just be horrible. I don’t know what to say to him.

I am pretty sure I read something about this on here already but I have searched a few different ways and can’t find it.

If anyone has any insight it would be really helpful at this point.
Thanks in advance…
 
I am just wondering. If God had a beginning, he obviously would not have been infinite, but finite. How can something finite become infinite?
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Deacon Ed b
 
I am just wondering. If God had a beginning, he obviously would not have been infinite, but finite. How can something finite become infinite?
Prayers & blessings
Deacon Ed B
 
I believe that God exists outside Time. It seems to me that outside Time the idea of '‘beginning’ and ‘end’ becomes meaningless, as those are Time-bound terms.

Outside of Time is eternity.

Just my :twocents:
 
MomblessedX3 said:
His argument is that God must have siblings or he wouldn’t know how to make a female. Man is made in his likeness. My husband is mormon so he believes that literally. But women are not in Gods likeness so how would he know what to make if he didn’t have sisters?
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Um, I have 4 siblings, and I have no idea how to make a female from a rib. . .

Methinks your husband greatly underestimates God’s intelligence.

Women ARE created in God’s likeness. God is pure spirit, and has no body. He is masculine, but not male. Human beings are created in the image of God in that we are the only creatures in the material universe that can know and love God.
 
God is all-knowing, all-powerful, has always existed, will always exist and is the Creator of the universe. I firmly believe as the Creator He is able to create whomever and whatever He wants. :twocents:
 
ruslan said:
God is all-knowing, all-powerful, has always existed, will always exist and is the Creator of the universe. I firmly believe as the Creator He is able to create whomever and whatever He wants. :twocents:
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Ruslan–I completely agree with you!

As for Deacon Ed B…I believe God is infinite. My Husband doesn’t.

It is really hard to explain this all to him. Sometimes I think he just disagrees for the sake of disagreeing with me 😃
 
MomblessedX3 said:
My husband and I were discussing our respective faiths and he believes that God was create and has siblings. His argument is that God must have siblings or he wouldn’t know how to make a female. Man is made in his likeness. My husband is mormon so he believes that literally. But women are not in Gods likeness so how would he know what to make if he didn’t have sisters?

I believe that God had no beginning and has no end. My husband thinks that would just be horrible. I don’t know what to say to him.

I am pretty sure I read something about this on here already but I have searched a few different ways and can’t find it.

If anyone has any insight it would be really helpful at this point.
Thanks in advance…
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The difference between Morman and Catholic interpretation of the Bible is profound. The Catholic Church teaches that human beings (man and woman) are made in the image and likeness of God.

The teaching that a man will become God and call forth his wives to populate a new world is not within any concept or belief of the Catholic Church.
 
We believe that God created time and space, and so, quite literally, He has no beginning. Morman beliefs are not consistent with Catholic teaching on many points. I would recommend that you get a book on aplogetics to strengthen your own faith and perhaps even help your husband come to the Truth.

There is a very good, reasonably priced ($5.95), and easy to understand book by Fr. Frank Chacon and Jim Burnham that I highly recommend

amazon.com/Beginning-Apologetics-Jehovahs-Witnesses-Mormons/dp/1930084013

God bless,

Fr. Boyd
 
MomblessedX3 said:
My husband and I were discussing our respective faiths and he believes that God was create and has siblings. His argument is that God must have siblings or he wouldn’t know how to make a female. Man is made in his likeness. My husband is mormon so he believes that literally. But women are not in Gods likeness so how would he know what to make if he didn’t have sisters?

I believe that God had no beginning and has no end. My husband thinks that would just be horrible. I don’t know what to say to him.

I am pretty sure I read something about this on here already but I have searched a few different ways and can’t find it.

If anyone has any insight it would be really helpful at this point.
Thanks in advance…
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So your husband can’t possibly create a female child unless he has female siblings? :confused:

God is beyond gender - that’s why men and women were BOTH created in HIS image and likeness (read Genesis 1 again - don’t know where your husband gets the idea that it was ONLY men created in God’s image 🤷 ). He contains both genders.

As for having no beginning and no end - what’s horrible about that? Doesn’t your husband expect to live forever? How is that so much different from having no beginning that having no beginning would be horrible?
 
I just bought the book! Thanks for the suggestion. My husbands views are a lot different than mine…it sure keeps things interesting.
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FrRJBoyd said:
We believe that God created time and space, and so, quite literally, He has no beginning. Morman beliefs are not consistent with Catholic teaching on many points. I would recommend that you get a book on aplogetics to strengthen your own faith and perhaps even help your husband come to the Truth.

There is a very good, reasonably priced ($5.95), and easy to understand book by Fr. Frank Chacon and Jim Burnham that I highly recommend

amazon.com/Beginning-Apologetics-Jehovahs-Witnesses-Mormons/dp/1930084013

God bless,

Fr. Boyd
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Pretty much what everyone else said.

I think sometimes people have a hard time understanding things about God, like the fact that He’s all powerful, all knowing, etc, etc, so they like to put limits on Him.

They say He must have a beginning, because everything does. They say that He couldn’t have rizen from the dead. Um, He’s GOD, people. He isn’t subject to the limitations that we are.
 
ruslan said:
God is all-knowing, all-powerful, has always existed, will always exist and is the Creator of the universe. I firmly believe as the Creator He is able to create whomever and whatever He wants. :twocents:
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Yes good point.
 
MomblessedX3 said:
My husband and I were discussing our respective faiths and he believes that God was create and has siblings. His argument is that God must have siblings or he wouldn’t know how to make a female. Man is made in his likeness.
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  1. If we believe that God is finite and God were created, who created Him? His God? So, who does God pray to? And if God were created by a former God, who created the former God? And who created that former God’s God? Eventually, you have to have a starting point. If your husband really thinks that when he dies he will be a god with his own universe, then his father must also be god (for who but god could give life to god)? Got to stop now, my eyes hurt.
  2. If God created everything, and if God would not know how to make a female unless he saw a female sibling, then does it not follow that God would not know how to make a German Shepherd unless he saw a German Shepherd? No? So, God can just dream up dogs and cats and fish and rocks and stars and atoms but he needs a model to come up with a female?
 
TheDoctor said:
  1. If we believe that God is finite and God were created, who created Him? His God? So, who does God pray to? And if God were created by a former God, who created the former God? And who created that former God’s God? Eventually, you have to have a starting point. If your husband really thinks that when he dies he will be a god with his own universe, then his father must also be god (for who but god could give life to god)? Got to stop now, my eyes hurt.
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Great point. Besides woman is created in man’s image who is created in God’s image, so therefore woman is created in God’s image. Furthermore man is usually just a term used to represent all of humanity. Also the “image” does not mean that we look like God, because God has no body or form, He is invisible. By “image” it is meant that humans were good before the fall, and that we have free-will.
TheDoctor said:
  1. If God created everything, and if God would not know how to make a female unless he saw a female sibling, then does it not follow that God would not know how to make a German Shepherd unless he saw a German Shepherd? No? So, God can just dream up dogs and cats and fish and rocks and stars and atoms but he needs a model to come up with a female?
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Exactly also true. If we believe that God is infinite and can do anything He pleases, and is ultimate, all-powerful, ect. Then why would He have to see something to create it. Did He have to have a sibling who was in the form of the planet Earth to create the Earth? God does whatever He pleases, He can do anything, so thus He can create anything He wants however He wants.
 
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