what came before God…did this entity have parents…there must be something before GOD…I’m getting a headache now
Why?
If you’re a strict Christian, you will say that there was nothing before God, which is almost a self contradiction (if there was nothing before God, then there was no God).
My belief is that there were humans before God, and humans are therefore God’s parents.
The whole religion thing has holes so big you could drive cattle through, which is why I left the church.
“goby,” in my dictionary…
Now that is scary, spoke!
{{visualize JAB’s Darwin-amphibian here}}
Imagine if you will, a theoretical being named Bob creates a sentient bacteria with a lifespan of 3 days. He talks briefly to a few of them, or make miracles for them via electron microscope, but most of the time they spend their time in his sock drawer.
Some of the bacteria recognize Bob’s existence, but others do not. Some will ask the others were Bob came from if he exists. Since they have no way of telling, no such frame of reference, how can any, even if they somehow know he exists, come up with a valid answer? They are, by their very nature, incapable of completely comprehending Bob, and therefore will never be able to understand him. In fact, they have an incredibly difficult time explaining the minute aspects of their own anatomy.
The question is unanswerable because we can not observe God.
Nonsense. We just need a better microscope.
Or maybe a better therapist.
His wife, if he was a thoughtful fellow…
(Shooting for next year’s Most Blasphemous Poster award…)
Why all this mystical jabberwocky about the simple notion of eternity?
Thank you, Lib. My point exactly.
Whats all this jabberwocky about super-magic-invisible-pink-unicorn?
I mean, its magic.
Duh.
god’s a tricky subject…
“I’ve been expecting you,” said Marx,“What took you so long?”
That’s what Prince John said about Robin Hood! 
Hey, Lib.? “Before the Big Bang was, I AM”??
I believe before God came…more God. Sounds strange, but God is portrayed in the King James Bible as an eternally dwelling entity, omnipotent, so therefore he is always there AND never there AND sometimes there, if he wants. I refer you over to the Topic, “God and Stones”. That has interesting conversation about the omnipotency (Is that the right word?) of God.
What came before god? Well, since I think modern man created god by using his (and her)larger brain, not the other way around, I’d have to say that a better question is “What came before modern man?” The little smaller brained buggers who were our ancestors, that’s who.
Poly
Good one, Poly. Like the principle that dare not speak its name in mundane GD threads, it is Ockhamly simple.
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I agree with you that man created god with his brain.
But if man created God, then it had to have been with his heart. And the more I think about that, the more unlikely I find it.
God’s existence is like the infinity of the cosmos; he has no end, no beginning. It’s like saying “where does a circle begin?”
I’d like to know what you big-bang theorists have to say about this:
If everything came from one “object”, what was outside of the object, just space? Also, how did this object come to be?
Patrick Ashley
‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.’ -Edmund Burke
There was no outside the object, at least not from its reference frame, and still isn’t. Can’t be. Never will.
How it came to be is hard to say. It’s existence isn’t even provable.
Hey Pash ol’ boy, what if we call this object “God”?
So much for THAT argument.