Where did God come from?

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God is eternal, without beginning or end. He didn’t come from anywhere.
 
If Yahweh didn’t come from anywhere why would he even bother to “start” the universe?
 
To manifest His glory and goodness by allowing others to participate in it.
 
Wesrock said:
To manifest His glory and goodness by allowing others to participate in it.
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It does beg the question of why an all powerful God would desire such a thing in the first place though, and what about the umpteen billion years before God thought to create life…what was he doing for all this time? If no one else existed anywhere, he was just alone somewhere for all that time?
 
Ok the whole “exists outside of time” just is ridiculous. What does that mean to “exist out of time”?
 
NM505StKate said:
Ok the whole “exists outside of time” just is ridiculous. What does that mean to “exist out of time”?
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Hum …declaring something “ridiculous” …yet in the very next breath noting that one does not know what is even meant.
 
Bookcat said:
Hum …declaring something “ridiculous” …yet in the very next breath noting that one does not know what is even meant.
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Because it doesn’t make sense. Something “outside of time” has no meaning.
 
NM505StKate said:
Because it doesn’t make sense. Something “outside of time” has no meaning.
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Hum again saying such - based on lack of knowledge. Dismissing something as ridiculous and at the same time stating stating one does not know that it means.

And here saying “it does not make sense” when …one does not know what it means.

Plenty of good sources from Philosophy to Theology out there about this truth of reality.
 
Bookcat said:
Hum again saying such - based on lack of knowledge. Dismissing something as ridiculous and at the same time stating stating one does not know that it means.

And here saying “it does not make sense” when …one does not know what it means.

Plenty of good sources from Philosophy to Theology out there about this truth of reality.
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So, from a bit of Google-fu, god resides in another reality that can somehow interact with this reality but leaves no evidence of interacting with this reality. I would think that would violate some laws of physics.
 
NM505StKate said:
So, from a bit of Google-fu, god resides in another reality that can somehow interact with this reality but leaves no evidence of interacting with this reality. I would think that would violate some laws of physics.
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Again…launching from lack of knowledge of the matter. Rather mistaken notions.

It does not help to jump off into something one does not know about-- into a comment.

(and simply googling something for a moment does not = per se knowledge or study of such a profound matter. Certainly not sufficient to comment so).
 
Bookcat said:
Again…launching from lack of knowledge of the matter. Rather mistaken notions.

It does not help to jump off into something one does not know about-- into a comment.
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Please explain how they are mistaken.
 
Bookcat said:
No time (pun intended) 😉

And a subject that can take a good deal of “time” to discuss.

But here is a nice little start

jimmyakin.com/2012/06/is-god-outside-of-time.html

Again this is a subject treated in a good Catholic Philosophy or Catholic Theology resource…
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So here is the definition of eternal: merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eternal

And for infinite: merriam-webster.com/dictionary/infinite

And the math definition of infinity: mathworld.wolfram.com/Infinity.html
 
NM505StKate said:
Ok the whole “exists outside of time” just is ridiculous. What does that mean to “exist out of time”?
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It’s certainly hard for us to conceive or explain, but I don’t think it’s ridiculous.

Even physics (since Einstein) agrees that time is contingent – if the Big Bang cosmology is correct, spacetime as we know it “started” then. Time is not just the unchanging background reality upon which things happen – time itself came into existence and could very well pass from existence.

Those of us who believe in God as Creator believe that He created the entire universe, including space and time themselves. Thus, hard as it is for us to imagine, His own existence is not limited by time and space. We therefore say, with some imprecision, that God is “outside” of time. When we speak of God, eternity does not mean an infinite piling up of seconds and minutes and hours and days, but the alternate definition of “a state to which time has no application.”
 
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