Society believes in God because they cannot accept that something has been created from nothing.  So if God created all this, who created God?  He can't be eternal; everything has a beginning (and, arguably, an end).  Just curious.
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I am the great "I AM."  I am the Alpha and the Omega.  I am the beginning and the end.  God is infinite / eternal.  God has no beginning and has no end.  God always was and always will be.\n\nLike you, my logical mind said, "TILT" because I had never seen anything without beginnings or boundaries.  One night I was looking for the Ring Nebula in the constellation Lyra and inadvertantly peered into deep space - all black.  \n\nWhat was I looking at?  I was looking a distance without end.. without an ending or a beginning.  I cannot comprehend infinity but I do acknowledge that it exists because I can see it.  By the same token, the infinite God of Abraham is without beginning or without end.\n\nAbraham's belief was counted to him as righteousness.\n\nYours is too.\n\nJohnny
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Gremlin I have contemplated this question for many years. The conclusion I have come to is this. For the Universe to exist today one of two things that we deem to be impossible has to have happened. Either something materialized from nothing, or something always was. At that point that we call "the beginning" one of those two things was fact. Which one, we may never know. So for me, "In the beginning God created" is as good an explanation as any. It cannot be proved or disproved. Perhaps it may be stated that in the beginning God said "BANG!!!". Perhaps God's previous job was just being an idea. Perhaps it was being the Idea (logos). Then the idea exploded into being, and God said "BANG".
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Before God created the physical universe--none existed.  Only the Spiritual world--a different level of existence.  God has always existed and always will.  That is beyond our ability to truly comprehend.   However, if He could be so easily understood He would not be God.\n\nWhen people try to bring God down to a human level and put Him on par with the physical universe, you wind up with stupid cults like the Mormons.
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Time was created (along with space, matter, and energy) when the universe was created.  Before the beginning of the universe, there is no such thing as time.  To say that "God was there from the beginning" can only mean that God was there since the beginning of this universe.  To ask what happened before the beginning of time makes no sense at all.  We cannot possibly comprehend what exists apart from this universe (other dimensions), because our minds were not built to do so.  To say that God "always" existed has no meaning to other dimensions, because "always" is specifically a time descriptor.\n\nI'm not giving this reason as a cop-out.  I'm only trying to suggest that maybe existence isn't what we think it is.  Maybe this question really has no meaning (or not the meaning you think it does), and maybe it's not even possible for us to understand the answer.  I'm not saying to stop looking, I'm only saying that there is that possibility.
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"Everything that has a beginning has to have a cause." \nWhy do you say this?  As you should know, absolute statements are frequently wrong.  Still, I can roll with this.  Okay, for the moment I'll play along and say that everything must have a beginning.\n\n"Only God is self-existing without beginning, without a cause outside Himself." \nWhat?!?!?!?  What about your statement above?  Can't you see that you totally contradict yourself?  You have just violated logic and trashed your own argument.  Sigh.  If everything needs a beginning, then so does a creator.  If you make an exception for a creator, then you could also make an exception for the universe.\n\nWhere is your evidence for either of these two statements?  Where is your evidence for a creator without beginning?  I think you are trying to avoid falling into the "Who created the creator" question, but skirting the question does not eliminate it.\n\nOccam's Razor:  which is the simpler theory?  A universe without beginning or a creator without beginning that created a universe?\n\nI hesitated answering this question because I felt that you merely asked it to find someone who agreed with you, and that you would choose that as the "best answer".  I didn't want to screw up my best answer ratio... but thought it more important to show you the flaws in your logic.\n\nGood luck in your Q&A's.
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Let´s contemplate no God:\nGod does not exist, so the universe is only a random and everlasting energy and matter transforming process, we are a tiny piece of matter which exist only because of a random event and we are only waiting for another random event to stop existing ( I meant: to transform into another thing ), then the universe and us have no goal or reason to exist.\n\nI don't like it.......God forbid!
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Woo hoo, a comment clearly designed to start a big argument on here, which I don't agree with, everyone has their own opinions!\n\nHowever, I sense that the basis of your point is that there is no real hard evidence to sustain the existence of any god, which is not the same as saying he doesn't exist, but is a definite statement to say that wehave no way of knowing. \n\nSo why everyone doesn't just live their life based upon earthly things, eg looking after and revering the earth around us, rather than pinning our hopes on some concept of a higher being, I don't know. \n\n(by the way, there IS actually hard evidence to suggest that the whole idea of a god stems from a part of the human brain, which operates only to convince us of a higher power, so we feel more significant than we actually are..)
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NO, God is something that someone made up to give people a reason for things that happen. anything good god did. anything bad the devil did. whatever. Things happen, that's life. I stopped believeing in god and absolutely nothing is different in my life. except for more time on sundays, and no more deciding whether the things i do are "right" in god's eyes. This belief helps keep some people in line. it is all psycological, or in your mind.People think if you don't believe in god you will go to hell. what if you don't believe in hell or satan. will he hate you to? There are all types of religions that do nothing more than give us something to reason with how the world started.
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its same like who created God. If God was created, then who created then one "who created God"?? and so on and so on................... NOW THERE HAS TO BE STOP SOMEWHERE, OTHERWISE WE WOULD NOT BE HERE. BUT WE ARE HERE, THAT MEANS GOD IS UNCREATED. where the stop is, we muslims call that being as "God almighty" who is eternal, no beginning no end.\n\n"Say: He is God, The One and Only. "God, the Eternal, Absolute."He begets not, nor is He begotten. And there is none like unto Him." [Al-Qur’an 112:1-4]\n\n..regarding time>> time is a creation of God, which is relative. only God is absolute. time has a beginning, God has no begginning, and God does not exist in SPACE TIME dimension.. but unfortunately our Christian brothers says so that God came in space - time dimension in the form of Jesus peace be upon him. .. see what the scientists says>>>\n\n\n"... if there were a complete set of laws, that would infringe God's freedom to change his mind and intervene in the world. It's a bit like the old paradox: Can God make a stone so heavy that he can't lift it? But the idea that God might want to change his mind is an example of the fallacy, pointed out by St. Augustine, of imagining God as a being existing in time: time is a property only of the universe that God created. Presumably, he knew what he intended when he set it up! " [Page 176, "A brief history of Time" by Stephen Hawkings]\n\nThats what islam believes that God does not exist in time dimension , He is beyond the time dimension. \n\nHOPE THIS ANSWERS, AND I INVITE YOU TO THIS GOD. WHO IS PERFECT AND ABSOLUTE, AND ETERNAL . \n\npeace be on you
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You do not have an understanding of the basic belief in a monotheistic G-d.  If something is infinite then it has no needs.  If there are no needs there is no use for slaves or servants.
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why would "god" pray? that is the stupidest thing ive ever heard, i dont even believe in god but if god prayed he wouldnt be god, whomever he prayed to would be considered god. Prayer implies asking and thanking a divine being higher than you.
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God. (cheating) This explanation is what everyone eventually resorts to when the other answers fail. Now, before I go any further, I should make clear that I'm not talking about any of the gods defined in various religions. Throughout all of human history, we've been trying to explain existence. But nobody has ever succeeded. And it's likely that nobody ever will. So we create the concept of God, whose only necessary property is being "that which explains existence." \n\nThis doesn't tell us much about god, though. It doesn't mean that any particular religion is correct. It merely defines god as something which answers The Question, because we have not been able to. \nplease read this http://www.toykeeper.net/philosophy/knowledge
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If you believe there is something that was not created (god) then you are opening a precedent, paving the way to believing that others things needed not be created (eg, universe).\nTherefore, even those who believe in God shouldn't necessarily believe that the universe was created!
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God has always been and always will be.  The thought is hard for our human minds to understand.  No one created Him for He is the Creator.
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God has no beginning and no end. I know this is hard to imagine but it is true. Nobody created him. God has been and will always be. Don't ponder on this to much you'll drive yourself crazy wondering how this is possible but it is true.
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hello tetsumy,\n\nGOD is the Creator, not the creation. We are the creation. So there is no way he can be among his creation because he is the Creator.\nHe is to be worship. No way can anyone in this world imagined what it would be if GOD was among us. Even in heaven GOD will always be above us.\n\nHope that answer your question.
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The universe as we know it could not exist without gravity.  Therefore, if you believe God created the universe, then God must have created gravity.  Why did it take man so long to figure out?  Well, there are many things we still don't understand about God (if she exists) and the universe.