When God told Abraham that his descendants would be countless as the sand and stars ... It makes it sound like God had us in a perpetual state somewhere in the heavens waiting to come out … Do you think there is spiritual life before birth?
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I think there must be because no matter how hard i try, theres no way i can imagine not existing, like u kina imagine blackness but there wouldn't even be that if we were just nothing.\n\nBut maybe we never existed in that time but God new the descendants would be created in the future.\n\nWho knows man!\n\nI would like to think theres life b4 birth tho, would be kinda nice
336175
I'm not sure where it is in the Bible but it says that God planned everyone's birth. He knew about us before we were conceived. I think we are created right when we are concieved but God planned it out first.
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The way I had eternal time explained to me is that it is not linear like you are thinking.\n\nEverything has already happened in God's time....past, present and future, He is already there.\n\nWhy does He let some things happen, I dont know, the bible tells me that his ways are so far above my ways and his thought so far from mine that I should not try to figure it our or my head will blow up!\n\nSo I just try to do the best I can during my time here.\n\nHope I helped, thanks for the Q\n\nDavid
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God's only spoken commandment in the bible is "be you perfect even as I am perfect"\nwhy do you think our souls are eternal? its going to take a loooooooooooooooong time to reach spiritual perfection but it is never too late to start.
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If you look in Genesis chapter one you will see that it was God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. \n\nGod said, "The earth was empty, a formless mass cloaked in darkness. And the Spirit of God was hovering over its surface."\nand"26 Then God said, "Let US make people F2 in our image, to be like ourselves." \n\nThen look at John 1\n\n1 In the beginning the Word already existed. He was with God, and he was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 He created everything there is. Nothing exists that he didn't make. 4 Life itself was in him, and this life gives light to everyone. \n\nGod is one person with three personalities. So yes the three personalities that you mentioned were there. Hope this helps!
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I don't know about in genesis, but I've always found ecclesiastes 3:19-21 interesting.\n\n"Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath (or spirit); man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless. All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?"\n\njust some food for thought.
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God moves in mysterious ways..................!\n\nWhy did not he include a chapter "prophecies", "question and answers from followers" etc..\n\nAnd no little picture with his bibliography at the back ! really disappointing ! \n\nAnd why did he give away his author's rights ??
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Personally, I feel that Evil would have just had ultimate reign.  For creation to cease to exist, wouldn't God have to make it so?  It doesn't seem like God's character to just give up like that.\n\nThen again, God knows everything that is going to happen, so if he *had* bowed down, maybe God would have had another plan to fix the matter?
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I do not see it just that way. I think that the being that we so blindly call God is an aliens and that he created several worlds some diferant from ours  and some simelar. I belive that at each stop he created and teraformed each planit to suport life and then planted the seads of life and let it brew while he went on to another planit to do the same thing. He being able to traverse vast distances with just a thaught was able to be in many places in short periods of time. He watched this ball of cosmic dust form from the excess of the rest and begin to form a planit. So he helped us along a bit. He put the dinos here and then somthing hapened and they all died leaving there bodys to form the fule for the next great experment. Then he brought a member of his family and impregnated her and left her here to produce his prodgany and populate the now transforming globe. The person or goddess that was left here to create the nest for the life growing within her is the being we refer to as Mother Nature. From the seeds that God planted within her all life and all water come. This is my belief listen if you will.
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I think I have always been since God has always been. I see myself as a piece of God. After this life I will go and evaluate what I have learned and what I still need to learn for my own enlightenment. Then when I am ready I will choose to be born again or maybe I will choose to help other souls that are in human bodies. I don't believe in heaven and hell either. I don't go in for the whole sin concept. Just learning lessons.
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It is an eternal question that we'll never know the answer to until we are dead.  I'd sit there when I was younger and think who made God and who made the being that created God and who made that being.  I think our sense of beginning and end is not in line with the big picture.  Our minds aren't ready for the truth.
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I hate to smash peoples faith, but the definition of perfect doesn't fit their god. I don't believe that any entity can create such a universe, so diverse and large. While only inputting one form of intelligent life. Besides, haven't we already deduced (using scientific data) the creation of the solar system is due to something else entirely? Truth is, we have no way to completely explain anyone's faith. That's why you simply have to accept everything based on faith. I however, would place my faith in the repeatable, and accurate, scientific method.
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I think we have first the abiity to choose. What good would it do to have options if we didn't know what to do with them? And yes, I think things need a "reference point" so to speak in order to "exist." Yet when God created the world He created everything else before he created man. Maybe this question is not as simple as it seemed when I first read it. Oh dear.
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OK. I'm a pantheist. But this is just MY answer. Its what I believe, as a pantheist. The universe, everything that is, "God" if you will, is cyclical. Its a matter of the expanding and contracting universe. After its expanded to a certain point it begins to collapse back in upon itself. When it completes this collapsing, compacting process its !BANG! all over again and begins to expand once more. The cycle is never ending, repeating itself throughout eternity. So each cycle COULD be thought of as a "creation" of sorts. But that's not apt, strictly speaking. The thing, what I call Deity (because "God" is a masculine concept and just doesn't fit here, at least outside metaphysics), goes on for ever. Creation after creation, never ending. Hope this is understandable and helps. :-) ~ Peace & Blessings ~
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Let's take the religious aspect away from this question first. Even if we assume that there is no God, then the probability of other lifeforms existing elsewhere in the universe is extremely high.\n\nEven in our "visible" universe taking the number of stars with the ratio that are expected to have planets, with the ratio of those that should have planets capable of supporting life, with the ratio of those where life has actually started, we still come out with a significant number. When we start thinking about the concept of the "multiverse" with the existence of other dimensions, then this becomes mind-boggling.\n\nComing back to religion, it is a natural aspect of the human mind that we should see ourselves as central to the importance of the universe. So it was when we thought ourselves to be the centre of the solar system and, no doubt, so it will be as and when we discover something outside the currently visible universe.\n\nI think most people (other than creationists) see the story of Genesis as an allegory. I personally see no clash at all between my scientific views and my beliefs as a Christian. If God created life, why should he have not created it elsewhere as well as on Earth.\n\nSo the answer to your question is, yes.........there has to be other planets (or indeed moons) with life on them, may be even within our own solar system !
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I think the question that you ask is a valid and an intelligent one- but the answer is very hard to formulate.\n\nSorry to disappoint you, but indeed, God has always existed since time immemorial, so there is nothing more ancient than God. Since God is an immortal entity, he has been here forever, and will thusly remain here forever...it's up to you to decide what 'here' means.\n\nNothing nor no one created him- although we tend to think of things in these concrete terms, and have a deep appreciation for causality and logic, many of the terms we use just don't apply to God, the creator of the cosmos. Again, he wasn't created- he has always been there. We can't see back that far into time.\n\nSorry if my answer fails to suffice. \n\nI am a Christian, by the way, if you were curious or if you hadn't gathered.
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Well, Idspudnik I don't know what you seen but there is being visiting this earth some are "Angels" and some are being from other star constellations We are not alone! But it funny you mention Ezekiel wheel....now think hard if you and I seen Ezekiel wheel we would run and say that a @#$%^&* UFO...right? But Ezekiel would say stop running those are the Gods....Now think on that....