Christians, if God existed always, why did he say he was the beginning (alpha)?
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I am not a Christian but it would see the answer to the beginning is refering to that of man's exist not God.\n\nAs for what cam first, God or existence, you have to stop thinking linerally.  That is a problem that humans have we think of time as a river or stream.  When thinking of existences of gods we have to think in the realm of all time.
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If god had no beginning or no end . . . how can he be Jesus . . . \n\nIn heaven - Jesus was created . . . (beginning)\nOn Earth - Jesus was born . . . (another beginning)\nOn Earth - Jesus died . . . (end)\nIn heaven - Jesus was supposedly resurrected (another beginning).\n\nJesus is no God . . . plus I proved it dozen of times . . . using your own bibles.
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None. God said I am the begining and the end. The alpha and Omega. In me all things are and have their being. Where would the limits come from??
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If god existed he had to be made of something. What???\nAtoms, Energy, or maybe some thing beyond our imaginations.\nIF IT WAS ENERGY or ATOMS THEN WHY IS HE SO DIFF RENT FROM US.\nNOW IF he was MADE OF SOMETHING EVEN BEYOND OUR IMAGINATIONS then there has to be someone who created those things which make god up.\nAND IF YOU BELIEVE THAT GOD JUST HAPPENED TO EXIST, BELIEVE THAT GOD IS FUNDAMENTAL, THEN I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU what is the problem with treating the universe the same way ???
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God is the alpha and he is the omega. No one knows how He was created and no one knows when He will end, just believe and you shall find the truth of God.
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Religion is a way of life and Adam had no religion. He knew God in a very personal way. The answer of course is that it didn't matter then and it doesn't matter now. He worshiped God. The one God that most of us worship. The rest is just details.
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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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God always was, and always is.
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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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God is the Alpha and the Omega. Infinity is everything in-between.
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God has always been.  Everything that is comes from God.  God exists in one nature but as three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  The three persons have always been.  They are a loving relationship.  The Father and Son loving each other with the Holy Spirit being the love that unites them.  The Son is also known as the Word or Knowledge of God.  When God created the world time began.  There was no time before the beginning of creation.   Thousands (or perhaps billions) of years after the beginning of creation, God chose to enter into his own creation as a man.  The Word became flesh.  Jesus does not exist prior to being conceived in Mary.  The Son of God does exist prior to the beginning of the world.
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I was introduced to Christianity growing up, but that isn't why I'm Christian.  It is very obvious to me that someone had to create the world and universe.  So many wonderful miraculous things happen to people that cannot be explained by logic, or natural order.  Even the complexity of natural order is too vast to be by impossible chance.  This led me to know that there is a Supreme Being.\n\nAs for why Christianity, there are a couple of reasons.  The Bible has never been proven inacurate, which supports the fact that it is divinely inspired.  Some good/interesting books about this topic are written by Lee Strobel "The Case for Christ" "The Case for a Creator" and a couple more.  Even when the Bible hasn't been believed, someone has come across ruins that disproves man's theory, and inforces that the Bible is right.  Creation interpretation of data makes sense to me, and having the world be ~6000 years old gets rid of lots of problems (like there should be billions more people on the earth if it has been around for millions of years, the fact that trees that are buried in layers supposedly thousands of years apart should have rotted, not nearly enough fossils- let alone NONE that are inbetweens, etc).  These are physical external reasons to me.\n\nThere is also a much more important internal aspect to why I allow Christ to rule my life.  Reading His Word, applying His principles (which never contradict each other), and knowing that someone always loves me no matter how much I screw up has made a difference in my life.  This change is so real that I can be certain of God, His Son, and the Holy Spirit.  I now never have that 'does anybody care?' empty feeling, or the 'why am I even here/what is the point of existance?' attitude.  This does not mean that I have the perfect life, and all is sunshine.  I sometimes have down days, I still get frusterated at times and ask why, but there is always an instruction manual to go to, and He is always with me.  That is a very comforting thought, that the God of the entire universe specifically loves me, cares about me, listens to me whenever I take the time to talk with Him, and can change my attitudes and bless me.  How wonderful!
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There is no way of knowing that. Maybe one day we'll have enough information to figure it out. Maybe God created it, if he/she/it exists. Maybe it has simply always been there. Logically, there must be something which has simply always existed.\n\nIn response to the person who answered after me - Something must have simply always been. No matter what it is, you can ask where it came from. And when you have an answer for that, you must question where THAT (the source of the first thing) came from. I'd say it's pretty illogical for that to continue infinitely, so there must be something that came from nothing. I never said that something had to be the matter. Just that there must be something which has simply always been. Maybe the source of all the matter is something that has always been. Those who believe in God would say that he is the source of that matter, and that he has simply always existed. Maybe it is the source of the source of the source of the source of the source (you get the idea) of the matter that has always existed. Logic suggests that eventually you would have to reach the beginning of all existence, and whatever it is that started everything.
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This answer is in responce to gimpalomg, and all other  "athiests."  If the universe were static, we could not say it had a beginning, and could have been eternal. However, the fact that the universe is expanding and going to higher and higher entropy, we can "turn back the clock" and determine that it in fact had a beginning. This is not the case with a deity. It CAN be static, everlasting, eternal. It is only that we do not understand the full measure of what "eternal" means. We as finite beings only think in finite terms, even when talking about infinity. We say it is "a really, really big number that goes on forever". But that's just semantics. We really have no conception of eternal and everlasting. \n\nPeople say we can not prove God exists, therefore he doesn't. What gives us the audacity to think we should be able to prove that? We can only know what he has communicated to us.
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It is generally believed by historians that the earliest religion(s) were animistic, which developed into increasingly complex polytheistic systems.  \n\nEven the Bible tends to support this idea --- Abraham was said to abandon his "idols" (e.g. polytheism) in order to establish worship of the One God.\n\nReligion probably originates in the attempt to understand and explain the inexplicable in the world.
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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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God always was.  That is how powerful he is.  He was always there.\n\nGod's name is Jesus.\n\nBelieve in Jesus and he will help you through all your problems.