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RE: Have You Ever Wondered Where God Came From? - 8/29/2008 5:11:47 PM
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jmjphe
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It may be good to read Job 38-40
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RE: Have You Ever Wondered Where God Came From? - 8/29/2008 5:15:38 PM
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jmjphe
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Real quick, i mention job chapter 38 - 40 not becasue im suggesting some level of rebellion, but it came to mind as a peice fo scripture where God brings up to job that he is the author of it all.
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RE: Have You Ever Wondered Where God Came From? - 8/29/2008 5:46:00 PM
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ORIGINAL: solomonsprayer
Hasn't everyone wondered this before?
I think this question is always first asked or often wondered in the mind of every newborn Christian, because it's quite thought provoking.
My conclusion is that something infinite created something finite. If something infinite preexisted before God, the everlasting, then that being would be superior to the God we know. Thus, He wouldn't be the almighty and all powerful given that He was a product of another designer.
God wasn't produced by anything prior to His transcendency. His existence has always been, it is, and forever shall be; infinite. It's the same as saying matter always existed, except a designer had to create matter for it to exist. Something can't come from nothing.
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RE: Have You Ever Wondered Where God Came From? - 8/30/2008 5:28:57 PM
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Rumely
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I think part of the problem has to do with our notion of time. We think in terms of simple linear time, so the notion of eternity boggles our minds. The thought of time stretching back endlessly and extending forward forever exceeds our grasp. Personally, I doubt that time existed or had any relevance outside of creation. So the question "why did God wait so long to make man?" is ultimately a nonsensical question. When history is concluded, time will doubtless again cease to exist or become irrelevant, having served its purpose. We are bound by time, but God is not, which probably accounts for our frustration with God's apparent inattention to our timetables in terms of answering prayer or moving His plan along.
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RE: Have You Ever Wondered Where God Came From? - 8/30/2008 9:16:53 PM
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Preludeian
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For some reason I've never had a problem accepting that there is something/someone that has ALWAYS been in existance. I don't even try to comprehend it because I know that even in this world there are things that I just can't comprehend no matter how hard I try.
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RE: Have You Ever Wondered Where God Came From? - 8/30/2008 9:51:38 PM
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The human mind, being created, has an understandable uneasiness about the Uncreated. We do not find it comfortable to allow for the presence of One who is wholly outside of the circle of our familiar knowledge. We tend to be disquieted by the thought of One who does not account to us for his being, who is responsible to no one, who is self-existent, self-dependent, and self-sufficient.
A. W. Tozer (1897–1963
We know God but as men born blind know the fire, they know that there is such a thing as fire, for they feel it warm them, but what it is they know not. So, that there is a God we know, but what he is we know little, and indeed we can never search him out to perfection; a finite creature can never fully comprehend that which is infinite.
Thomas Manton (1620–1677)
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