God created this universe? (contd)?
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i SEE WHERE YOU ARE COMING FROM i DON'T UNDERSTAND BUT i DO BELIEVE IN HIM!!
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Everyone and everything was made by God. Look around you. Do you think that everything could be how it is without God? There is an obvious creator for everything to fit like it does.
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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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What happens if heaven is here on earth and we are wasting our precious time wondering where we are going to go next.  The universe I think is a God like creation of infinity upon infinity exploding and imploding in a constant merry-go-round of momentous force started by an almighty, power-full, special entity,......God.  So close your eyes and dream your dreams, we are all part of God and the universe, they are both one and the same, immortally eternal....
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Ha! finally a question i can actually answer and know 100%! In the beginning, God created the earth, along with the heavens. He said it, and it was done. Pretty sweet, eh? lol...he's pretty good, made it all, in the matter of 6 days...
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Let us not forget:  Man created God, not the other way around.  Man created God to get him through whatever dilemna he was facing at the time.  Can't explain something rationally?  "Must be a god out there calling all the shots, right"?  Wrong.  There is a scientific explaination for EVERYTHING, it's just that we are not smart enough to know EVERYTHING yet.  In time.....
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He came from someones imagination. It is impossible to has existed for eternity. Everything has to have a point at which it was created or began.
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good question, since God created this universe that tells us that he's beyond our own mind and way of thinking. and yes God did create us.
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If seems that if God was required to create a complex world, than it would require an even more complex being to have created the complexity of God.  Would this be God's God?\n\nI do not see that using God as an explanation for the inherent complexity of the world resolves the issue at all; it simply seems to remove the question to a level where people feel more comfortable admiting that they do not know.  It is much more difficult to admit one does not understand why the natural universe, which they can see and feel and touch, exists, but much easier to admit that they don't know how God came to exist.\n\nSo the question is very good both philosophically, theologically and psychologically.\n\nAnother question you may wish to ask is: If God created heaven, where was He before such a creation?
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Universe is a creation of God. And only thing that can create itself is God and all others are His creation. This is what a Hindu believes.
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Stop acting crazy, that's #1.  Second, before G-d created the universe, there obviously wasn't time.  And there weren't any beings to know what time was.  so, as hard as it may seem to be, G-d existed forever...reeeeeally weird to think about it, but like i said, there was no time, so it's quite possible.
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Nobody created God. God is eternal without beginning or end. Do I understand this, no. \n\nThe only thing we know is that God aquired wisdom in eternity past. \n\nWISDOM SPEAKING\nPro 8:23  I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. \nPro 8:24  When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. \nPro 8:25  Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: \nPro 8:26  While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. \nPro 8:27  When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: \nPro 8:28  When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: \nPro 8:29  When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: \nPro 8:30  Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; \nPro 8:31  Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
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This is a good question...it's actually something I've thought about before. It seems snobbish to believe that we are the only living things in the infinite universe, yet the Bible does not describe creation of anything but the Earth and its beings. \n\n"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." Genesis 1:1 \n\nThis verse states that the heavens were also created by God. Although the heavens are mentioned, the Bible may not go into detail about them for the simple reason that they were unknown at that time. For all we know, God could have created an identical planet to ours that we know nothing about. But in the past and present, it has been impossible to find out about anything much beyond our solar system.\n\nAs for the question of 6,000 years ago...well, it is pretty much a proven fact that time was measured differently when the Bible was written. People were recorded to live into their nine hundreds. So some of the "heavens" could have been created much before the earth and simply recorded as a day.\n\nThis is my theory...I hope I helped.
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no i dont think so. i think is a bunch of hooey. and it also depends on what you believe. how was the universe formed. if you know that you can take that and use it to see what you think about it
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Nobody has been able to prove that the Universe was created by god or not. Cosmologists (astronomer’s who study the evolution and space-time relations of the universe) have been trying for years to understand the way the Universe came into being by trying to understand what occurred during the very first few seconds of the Big Bang. Through these studies they’ve determined with a high degree of probability that the Universe did indeed spring up from a central point in the cosmos and expanded with tremendous speed to envelop all that we see. \n\nThe one thing that none of these scientists have ever attempted to prove is weather the Universe was artificially created (God) or the byproduct of natural forces. To do so would smack of heresy among their scientific peers, not to mention the reaction from the religious community. The entrance of a divine force has been left up to us to determine. Even the cosmologists and mathematicians have long been divided as to weather God had a hand in its creation. \n\nAlbert Einstein (a devout Jew) for instance strongly believed that there was more than a hint of a divine hand in the creation of the universe. The way the physics of the universe operated seemed too perfect for them to spring up from pure chance or coincidence.
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You've opened up the box of mirrors. If you ask, "Who created humanity?", then state it must be God, the only logical follow-up question becomes, "Who created God?" Then who created that creator, and that creator, and that creator, ad nauseum. It's the "God of the Gaps" argument. If there is something we don't understand, it must be God. Well, in fact, there is no compelling reason to believe it "must be God."\n\nI don't believe in God, and I've thought this out fairly carefully.\n\nFirst, you have to define the term "God." The problem with most theists is that this term is a moving target.\n\nIn addition, because there is no evidence either for or against the existence of God, you cannot use deductive logic (a+b=c; therefore c-b=a). You can only reach a conclusion by inductive reasoning using the balance of evidence (90% of A is also B; C is B, so the chances are 90% that C is also A). \n\nSo everything stated hereafter is based on inductive reasoning. I believe it to be true, but it is not certain. However, it is even certain to assert that God exists, based on my statements below.\n\nI will assert (and others may shoot this down) that the only RELEVANT definition of God states that he intervenes to circumvent natural laws.\n\nIf God circumvents natural laws, then it is impossible to understand natural laws. All scientific findings would have to include the stipulation, "it is also possible that these results are an act of God, a miracle, thereby making our research meaningless."\n\nHowever, since we have been able to expand our knowledge of natural laws (evidenced by every appliance in your kitchen), the scientific method works in this discovery. And the likely conclusion is that God, at least the intervening kind, does not exist.\n\nAdditionally, if God is defined as all loving, all powerful, and all knowing, then it is impossible to explain suffering. Either God is not all loving (he acts sadistically), not all powerful (he cannot prevent suffering), or not all knowing (he created suffering by mistake because he didn't know the consequences of his actions).\n\nIf God is less than these and/or does not intervene in our existence, then he is either non-existent or irrelevant. The classic argument is that I cannot prove that a china teapot is or is not orbiting the sun directly across from the earth's orbit. But while I cannot prove this is not true, the evidence against it is compelling.\n\nThe evidence against God is equally compelling, and while it is not possible to prove beyond any doubt, it makes more sense to live your life with an assumption that there is no God.\n\nIt is more compelling to me that humans have invented God to reflect the thoughts of the ruling powers in a particular time. Events happened, and in a pre-scientific age, people hadn't a clue regarding the causes. No one could explain disease, floods, earthquakes, or lunar eclipses. Because humans are always looking for reasons, when none are found, it was the natural inclination to declare the cause to be "God" (or gods). As the faith grew, miracles and laws have been ascribed to this Divinity, and an orthodoxy grows up around it.\n\nSuccessful religions over the long run also are accompanied by some level of economic well-being to the populace. Unsuccessful ones are seen as false because they don't lead to improved lives.\n\nNow it seems unhelpful to believe in such superstition. The only matters that aid in our ongoing well being are work, location, health, sustenance, and pure, blind luck.\n\nSo, that's why I find God unbelievable. And you know what? It's okay if you do believe God does exists.
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Well....let's look at this logically:  The universe (including time itself) can be shown to have had a beginning.\n\nIt is unreasonable to believe something could begin to exist without a cause.  Stephen Hawking says this.\n\nThe universe, therefore, requires a cause, just as Genesis 1:1 and Romans 1:20 teach.\n\nNow - this is important to understand:  God, as the creator of time, is outside of time. Since therefore He has no beginning in time, He has always existed, so doesn't need a cause.\n\nGod did not "create Himself".  \n\nThink outside of the box.  Outside of dimensions.  There are many more than the "three" you see.