What was God doing before Creation?

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MerryAtheist said:
I thought that was a sin.
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No, not at all! In fact, it is a sin not to love yourself! Remember the golden rule: “love your neighbor as yourself!” Not “more than,” not “less than,” but “as.” You should love yourself; after all, God loves you, and who are you to disagree? The trick is not to obsess about this, which a lot of people have trouble with.
 
nablaise said:
what is ‘Time’ really?
Is there a time when time did not exists? Is this possible?
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Personally, I don’t think time has any meaning or necessity before our fall or later in paradise, since we shouldn’t die or need any food, nor we will marry, so what is the time for !, humans need time to organize themselves and plan their works here on earth, but later in paradise, we are not restricted to any time to do whatever we want to do, we will be like angels in our glorified body.
 
What was God doing before Creation?

NOTHING he had no time!!

Seriously, read Romans 11:33-36 A good one to memorize.

Lily Marlene

“He who is ignorant of Scripture is ignorant of Christ.”
St. Jerome
 
God has always existed. What God was doing before the creation of man and the earth and such is a mystery unknown to us. We are not to know such a thing unless we achieve eternal salvation and with him.Maybe that truth will never be revealed to us. We don’t know what truths will and will not be revealed to us. But God has always existed and we just have to trust in him and let him reveal what he wants to know and question what we aren’t supposed to know
 
MerryAtheist said:
Playing solitaire?
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masterjedi747 said:
Two things: (1) I think you’re still considering God’s action of creation in a very human way… as if there was a time at which He was not creating. (2) Time was created simultaneously with creation, whether it was the angels or the physical universe.
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So are you saying there was no time in which we and all His creations were not in God’s mind? Have we also existed eternally? Now that is something to confuse one’s thinking.🙂
 
BlaineTog said:
Playing Guitar Hero. Then he ran out of songs and decided to make humans so we’d come up with more.

(In other words, the question doesn’t really make sense).
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Agreed! I think He was knitting a nice pair of socks:)
 
CollegeBoi1985 said:
Time is also related to motion, in this way the Unmoved Mover Argument, which is exemplary, was realized by Aristotle and Aquinas.

I think the problem lies not in God or in time but in our ability to conceive of something which exists outside of time. All we have is our small existence which is constantly moving from one state (the past) to another (the future) and we are left in a moment we cannot even grasp (the present). Our existence is dribbled out to us moment by moment but God possesses His existence “all at once.”
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This hits the nail on the head 👍

Let’s not forget that time is a measure of motion. What is a second? It is the time that elapses during 9,192,631,770 cycles of the radiation produced by the transition between two levels of the cesium 133 atom. A minute is 60 of those. What is a day? It is the cycle for the earth to complete one rotation on it’s axis. What is a year? The cycle where by the earth makes one complete revolution around the sun.

Before creation, none of this stuff existed. The concept of “a day” or “a minute” has no meaning. Without motion, there can be no time.

Think about how you would feel if you went to live in a cave underground away from all natural light with no watch, no computer, no contact with the outside world. After a few days, you would lose all concept of time because you would have nothing to measure it against. If you were with another person, you couldn’t say that you would do something in ten minutes because there would be no way for you to gauge when ten minutes happened.
 
Cutting down Krishna and Allah with his Colt '45. “There’s not enough room in this universe for the both of us.”
 
Isn’t “what was God doing before Creation” an utterly superfluous question?
There are so many questions we just don’t understand in the words of Jesus Christ, that questions referring the time before heaven was created or before Jesus was sired (mightbe that word’s wrong) should really wait until we will know in heaven. Might be we will not be told even then, so what’s the use to speculate.

Anyhow; there was God and the Holy Spirit as ever had been. Most likely not “too long” after that “time”, Jesus was. Joh 8:58 “I tell you the truth,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!”

By inspiration of the Holy Spirit (and from Jesus who often mentioned the Angels and the countless number of them) we know, that ages before the creation of earth and Adam, God had created heaven with the Angels and a terrible lot happened, unmatchable to anything that ever happened on earth, which led to the fall of the legions of Lucifer and “creation” of hell, separated from all other existing, by a insuperable gap – see Luc 16:26: “And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us”.

So; more than very much happened, and the seconds human beings exist, is nothing to match the filled time before. That’s why this question doesn’t make much sense.
 
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