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Topic: Explain Where God Came From
God's eternal existence, past and future, is certainly something
difficult for us to grasp.
We all have a beginning and an end, and so does everything we
can see. So it is very hard to
picture anything or anyone, even God, as not having a
beginning.
The Bible does indicate that this is true about God, though. In
Exodus 3:14-15, God says
to Moses, "Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM
hath sent me unto you. and God
said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children
of Israel, The Lord God of your
fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob hath sent me unto you: this
is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all
generations." I am told that the word
translated "I AM" also means "I was" and "I will be" all at the
same time. In Psalm 90, verse 2,
we read, "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou
had formed the earth and the
world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God." God
exists from eternity before now
until eternity after now. In fact, we could even say God
invented time because He exists outside
of time.
In the book of the Revelation we also find that God is eternal.
Revelation 1:8 has God
saying "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, said
the Lord, which is, and which
was, and which is to come, the Almighty." And in Revelation 4:11
we find, "Thou art worthy, O
Lord to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created
all things, and for thy pleasure
they are and were created." Now it is obvious that God couldn't
create Himself, so creating "all
things" includes everything but God. If there was anything else
before God, He could not have
created it. Instead, there can be nothing before God because He
has always existed.
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You say "He had to be something before he became a spirit for we
all have a spirit." Why? We
have a spirit, but we are not a spirit. On the other hand, God
doesn't have a spirit, "God is spirit."
(John 4:24) Again, it is a hard distinction, sometimes, to make.
God didn't have to be anything
before He became spirit because He is and always has been a
spiritual being.
We have a spirit. Our bodies are inhabited by a spirit which we
call the soul. That spirit
came from God. "The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel,
said the Lord, which stretched
forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and
formed the spirit of man within
him." (Zech 12:1) God gave man that spirit, and God will take it
back. "Then shall the dust
return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto
God who gave it." (Eccl 12:7)
Because we have that spirit, which comes from God, though we
have a beginning and an end,
that doesn't mean God has to have had a beginning as well.
In conclusion God exist from eternity before now until eternity
after now. In fact we
could even say God invented time because he exist outside of
time.
