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I'm a Creationist. I think God was made by a God-creator God. Do Christians think nothing exploded & made God?
@Kat: Yeah, right. A perfect God just came out of nowhere?! Don't you think that level of complexity and perfection PROVES that God was designed?
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- CirbrynLv 710 years agoFavorite Answer
Look at how complicated God is. He knows everything and can do anything. The likelihood of such a complicated entity just existing by chance are less than 1 out of 10 to the umpty gazillionth. Clearly such a complicated God can only have been the result of intelligent design. Unfortunately, science can only speculate as to what could have created God - whether Metagod or some form of space alien. And since we don't dogmatically teach who the creator of God was, that means it's a scientific rather than religious conclusion, and we can teach it in public schools to your kids using your tax money.
Edit: A lot of people are trying to claim that the argument doesn't apply to God because God has always existed. There are two problems with this: first, the chances of such a complicated God always existing are even worse than the chances of such a God existing for a limited period of time. Secondly, the universe too may have always existed in some form. The big bang established the chain of events that produced the universe as we know it, but there is nothing to say that, if the big bang had a cause, that cause was not a natural part of a greater universe. There is no requirement for the cause of the big bang to have been a pre-existing, intelligent, omnipotent, omniscient entity.
- Anonymous10 years ago
A common argument from atheists and skeptics is that if all things need a cause, then God must also need a cause. The conclusion is that if God needed a cause, then God is not God (and if God is not God, then of course there is no God). This is a slightly more sophisticated form of the basic question “Who made God?” Everyone knows that something does not come from nothing. So, if God is a “something,” then He must have a cause, right?
The question is tricky because it sneaks in the false assumption that God came from somewhere and then asks where that might be. The answer is that the question does not even make sense. It is like asking, “What does blue smell like?” Blue is not in the category of things that have a smell, so the question itself is flawed. In the same way, God is not in the category of things that are created or caused. God is uncaused and uncreated—He simply exists.
How do we know this? We know that from nothing, nothing comes. So, if there were ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence, then nothing would have ever come into existence. But things do exist. Therefore, since there could never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been in existence. That ever-existing thing is what we call God. God is the uncaused Being that caused everything else to come into existence. God is the uncreated Creator who created the universe and everything in it.
- Anonymous10 years ago
Asker,
God is uncreated. If you google "Where does God come from?" there's a yahoo answers question where someone answers it perfectly. I'm just too tired to link you to it right now. Well actually, wait, gimme a sec, I will. This is what he answered to the question, "Where did God come from?" :
Hello,
Great question, although we have trouble really understanding.
We can ask a question such as, "how was the universe created" since the universe had a beginning. Since it had a beginning, there is a point in time in which it didn't exist, and then suddenly existed. So asking how the universe was created or came into existence is a logical question.
But God was never created, and has always existed. There was never a time when God didn't exist. Time is a creation along with our universe. Outside of time, there is no such concept.
You cannot ask how God was created, simply because he wasn't. It is an illogical question. It is like asking how much the color blue weighs. It just doesn't make sense.
God just is. God is the only thing that was never created, and He will always exist. Whatever was here before the universe (energy/knowledge/power,etc.--that is God).
-Beelzebub
Source(s): Y!A - miltenbergerLv 45 years ago
The Christian God is an identical God as in the different religions. there is completely one God, and God is completely a word for the despite that supernatural entity that created each thing is. it is not lots that because of the fact the universe had a initiating and that i assume an beginning that there would desire to be a God, this is how would desire to and why would mindless and purposeless remember evolve into residing varieties of individual “beings” with self-based egos with survival drives and the would desire to procreate? there is no reason for remember to try this, no longer till there's a clothier and a purpose for it. existence varieties that developed into human beings, could no longer have handed off by using random probability, even over a limiteless quantity of time,
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- ?Lv 710 years ago
There is an old story about a young monk who asked his master what held the universe up. The master replied that the universe rode on the back of a giant turtle. When the young monk asked what held the turtle up, the master answered another turtle. When the monk was about to ask his next question, that master interrupted and said, "Don't bother, son. It's turtles all the way down.
Kuma
- shawnLv 610 years ago
He said He was the Creator. We are actually energy in physical form. He said out of me I create man. So then He is energy. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. That is omnipotence. That has nothing to do with magic. Something from nothing however is. He said we are His children. That means we came from something. No magic. Just as your parents say you come from them that is proof of who you are.
Omnipresence is even simpler still. Everywhere in the Universe energy and space can be found. If you knew everything about science and you were also everywhere. You could predict outcomes based on observations. No magic there either. It is no different then some one tells you not to stick your finger in the outlet. Either it is personal experience or they know some one who did. Does it mean they are predicting the future cause you happened to be playing with it? No.
Source(s): Logic and science - SmartassawhipLv 710 years ago
You're being sarcastic, right? Making fun of us Christians who also believe that God created the Universe as it says in the Bible and not that ridiculous hypotheses of nothing that went bang and all the matter in the Universe was created as the secular scientists try to scam everyone with? I hope you keep on doing things like this so that you never take the time to actually think about things. (I'm being facetious)
- 10 years ago
Your position here is illogical. If God has a beginning, then he's subject to time, and that makes him part of the universe.
You can't talk of God in terms of "before" or "came from" because these concepts are centered in time, and time is a part of the universe (linked to space and matter). If God is part of the universe and creator of the universe, it creates a logical impossibility, like being your own mother.
God must, by necessity, be the creator of time and thus not subject to it.
- AutumnLillyLv 610 years ago
And the Big Bang came from nowhere???
God always Being is much more logical than something coming from nothing.
God IS. There is only God. We, and everything else, come from God. Since we are "coming from," it creates a timeline. Whereas, God simply exists, so there is no timeline - just eternity.
- Anonymous10 years ago
A Superior GOD created God who created the universe! The Superior GOD is hiding from the God who created the universe! Then GOD is seeing how the other God would behave, then he judges the God and sends him maybe to the lake of fire for killing all them children in the flood, wars, famines, etc.....