What was God up to before He came and made Earth?

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We live in time. God doesn’t. I’m not sure there was a “before” with God, even as to the creation of the universe. Nothing exists that was not in God’s Mind, and all things past, present and future (as we think of that) are immediately present to Him and always were.

So this universe was always present to God. There was no “before”.
 
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God washovering over the waters, in darkness. Then God created light, hovering in the darkness was too boring?

Then God put together a big dome to separate the waters above from the waters beneath. Those domes are hard to make, he probably got the wrong size allen wrench ith his kit, so it took even longer.

After letting the waters drain a little, God had dry land to seed.

So it only took a couple of days to get to making the earth. Not too bad, I’d say. What’s your rush?
 
When you say that G-d is “being itself,” what exactly do you mean? Is not G-d separate from His creation, while the latter contains beings including human beings? So what does the phrase “being itself” refer to: G-d’s perfection of being, His essence of being, His extra-spatial and extra-temporal being, all of these?
 
I mean that God has revealed himself to be personal. He interacts personally with individuals. The son became human as Jesus Christ. He is not just some energy or force; He is will, He is being itself. He is our father, and he desires an intimate personal relationship with every one of us.
 
When we say that God is being itself, we mean that it is his nature to exist. All existence, all being, finds its source in Him.
 
God doesn’t nees to focus. Everything is always under His attention.
 
Om(name removed by moderator)resent yes, but not in the sense of being bound by the physical universe. God’s presence does not require physicality.
 
Yes, good, but this is where i get tangled with atheists. They beleive everything is physical, even thoughts and anything yet undiscovered. Basically another word for “natural” since for them “supernatural” is impossible.

So we, in contrast, say that God is Not physical and supernatural. I wonder though if we really mean, transcending both physical and non-physical categories.
 
Well if there was a before, then he spent His time loving His Son.

One line of thought is that he created the world as a gift to His Son. What a gift! The high point of His creation was man. This may help to explain why the Son became man, suffered and died for us. God was perfectly happy without us and He does not need us. He gave us free will because He loved us so much that he didn’t make us slaves.
 
It’s impossible to conceptualize existence beyond time and space. I think no matter how much more we know God will be eternal mystery.
 
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Yes, good, but this is where i get tangled with atheists. They beleive everything is physical, even thoughts and anything yet undiscovered. Basically another word for “natural” since for them “supernatural” is impossible.

So we, in contrast, say that God is Not physical and supernatural. I wonder though if we really mean, transcending both physical and non-physical categories.
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Ask them if they believe that love and beauty exist. If they say yes, then point out that those categories are non-physical. They’ll probably trying to sidestep by claiming that those things are the result of physical changes to the chemicals in the brain. The problem with that is that, while the reactions which cause a sensation of beauty may be physical (the chemical releases), the experience of beauty, the understanding of it, is non-physical. Given that things like beauty are non-standard, you cannot claim that there is a physical quality that is beauty; there is nothing physical that defines what a person will find beautiful. Hence, the entire concept of beauty is non-physical, and therefore outside the realm of traditional sciences.

This is an example that can open them up to the existence of things beyond that which can be measured by science.

If they say no, well, pray for them. They must live a very empty life.
 
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Just consider like this.As per the available information the age of earth is 4.5 billion years and the age of universe 13.5 billion years.Beyond our universe of which earth is part,billions and billions of other universe exists.Even then the space does not stop suddenly there.Beyond the last distant universe,there is still space for another universe…and it goes on to infinity.If God took 6 days to create our earth which is equivalent to 4.5 billion years ,caculate how much time he would have taken to create all other universe also.It is infinity!So just be satisfied that since infinite time God was engaged in creating universes,and in between heaven,angels etc are also created. However, only earth was his star creation,not only because it is so beautiful and perfectly suitable for life to exist ,but also since he choose to send his only son to here and only the humans here are given the privilege to share his eternal glory in heaven.
 
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