How did everything begin?

[Archidemes]

How did everything begin? God created the universe long long long time ago. :angel:
But i have to ask one thing.... What happened before God? Where did God come from?

It's just impossible to find the answer... But it just mysterious.

[gemstone121]

Yes that is just one of those unanswerable questions. I don't think we can ever know the answer to that and generally people just accept that he's god he just appeared. You run into the same problem with the Big Bang Theory too and pretty much any other idea. How can something come from nothing? To us it seems like an impossibility but it obviously had to happen otherwise the world wouldn't be here and neither would we. So sorry I can't give you an answer but I don't think anyone can.

~ Gems

[Taichi]

being as how I don't believe in the existance of the Judeo-Christian God, or any other god, I cannot say for certain how the universe was created.....

[GryffndorBeater]

I think that god has been for eternity, but we being human and mortal cannot grasp the concept of eternity.

[Azimuth]

Funny... we were doing this in Physics today.

How did everything begin? God created the universe long long long time ago. :angel:
But i have to ask one thing.... What happened before God? Where did God come from?

It's just impossible to find the answer... But it just mysterious.
Well, I don't believe in God, and I have absolutely no idea why the Big Bang (the theory I subscribe to) happened. I like the "closed" model of the Universe, where the Big Bang occurs, everything expands outwards, but the Universe is too dense and gravity pulls everything back into everything else with a "Big Crunch". It then starts again. That doesn't explain how it began though...

:huh:

[joelaughing]

I always heard that God never just "appeared" he was always here, there was no beginng and there won't be and end. Like someone mentioned above its just too much for us to grasp.

[chocolate brown]

People, you should really read the books written by Phillip Pullman, it's a triology called "His Dark Materials". The first book is called "Nothern Lights", the second "The Subtle Knife" and the third "The Amber Spyglass".
The books are amasing and he explains how God became and the angels, and everything. I think he explains it in the third book, I'm not shure, but you should definately read all three!

[Erich]

To those that do not believe in any god, such as myself, the mystery of what happened before time is quite the same as what happened before god. And I say "before time" slightly tongue in cheek, as "before" is a time based relative concept, and as such, wouldnt exist outside the concept of time.

but regardless of all that, our simple minds wouldnt be able to comprehend it even of the reason were to become obvious to us. And simple minds need simple reasoning, so we end up with what I believe to be cop out replies such as "God was always there!". That allows people to have reason where none may actualy exist, and puts matters of existance to rest for them to live their simple lives.

Who knows. Maybe time is just a different gravity. Maybe our universe was dropped from an unfathomable hight, forever plummeting with no resistance. Maybe one day we'll learn to slow the fall, maybe climb upwards back to the top. Maybe there we'll find god, or ourselves, or whoever is the cover of your book, and maybe then we'll know.

Until then, I'll drink my iced tea disconnected from that.