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God before creation

Godwilling

Organic, kinetic learner
What did God do with himself before He created the world?

Was He bored?

Was He just there alone doing nothing?

To whom did He speak?

Did He create the World to have something to do and say?

Did God have a thought one day that He needed to create something to keep Himself busy?

Please explain in detail how God spent His time before creation.
 

beerisit

Active Member
What did God do with himself before He created the world?

Was He bored?

Was He just there alone doing nothing?

To whom did He speak?

Did He create the World to have something to do and say?

Did God have a thought one day that He needed to create something to keep Himself busy?

Please explain in detail how God spent His time before creation.
Rubiks Dodecahedron?
 

Quintessence

Consults with Trees
Staff member
Premium Member
To me, this is a non-question on two fronts. First, reality has always existed. Perhaps not in its present state, but it has always existed. Second, creator is not distinct from creation; the divine is immanent within all of reality and there is nothing that is not god. This question therefore generates a 404 error in my theology. *laughs*
 

1137

Here until I storm off again
Premium Member
What did God do with himself before He created the world?

Was He bored?

Was He just there alone doing nothing?

To whom did He speak?

Did He create the World to have something to do and say?

Did God have a thought one day that He needed to create something to keep Himself busy?

Please explain in detail how God spent His time before creation.

I really don't think any of us are in a position to claim what God was doing before creation. The first thing, the eternal thing that exists, is a force. Asking if it was bored is assigning human traits to it. Also, asking how long it was before it created is meaningless, as time doesn't apply. Besides that, all possibities have always existed; there is no start as that contradicts infinity. Just an "unconscious" energy vibrating, creating everything. Only when the possibility of consciousness manifested did "god" come about.
 

RubyEyes

Truth Seeker
What did God do with himself before He created the world?
He also created time at that point, so what do you mean by before?

Was He bored?
No. Why would God be bored?

Was He just there alone doing nothing?
He was alone, being God. That's not doing nothing.

To whom did He speak?
Why would God need to speak?

Did He create the World to have something to do and say?
God created the world because God's nature is creative, that's an inherent property of him.

Did God have a thought one day that He needed to create something to keep Himself busy?
mmm, no.

Please explain in detail how God spent His time before creation.
You're misunderstanding something. Time is a part of creation. And boredom is a human feeling provoked by the absence of fun, which consists in doing things you like and liking every aspect of it. If you are bored, there's some aspect of it you don't like. But God's nature is creative and loving, and so there is nothing of what he created he doesn't like, or he would have created it otherwise (naturally, I'm talking about the original state of things, not what we do with our free will).
 

Madhuri

RF Goddess
Staff member
Premium Member
Only material creation comes in an out of existence. Always is that cycle of creation and destruction occurring so there is never a 'before creation'.
Furthermore, it is a particular energy/energies of the Lord that controls the material existence. Eternally God abides within the Spiritual existence being blissful.
 

Godwilling

Organic, kinetic learner
But God's nature is creative and lovingj
Did he create hell and Satan?

and so there is nothing of what he created he doesn't like, or he would have created it otherwise (naturally, I'm talking about the original state of things, not what we do with our free will).

Did God create free will, or are there things that were created by other creators?
 

BruceDLimber

Well-Known Member
What did God do with himself before He created the world?
Was He bored?

Was He just there alone doing nothing?

To whom did He speak?

Did He create the World to have something to do and say?

Did God have a thought one day that He needed to create something to keep Himself busy?
Excellent questions; I'm glad you asked them! :)

If there are no further questions, class is dismissed.
 

RubyEyes

Truth Seeker
Did he create hell and Satan?
I don't know if those exist. If so, yes. But I tend to think of Satan and hell as myths or concepts rather than actual entities/places.

Did God create free will, or are there things that were created by other creators?
God creates souls (or rather, creates us with the ability to give birth to new humans who acqurie souls) with the ability of free will. There's no other creator in this sense, I define God as "the creator" so it wouldn't make sense.
 

RubyEyes

Truth Seeker
Please explain Time
Explain? I wish I could, because I would have to understand it first. And even physicists have a hard time doing that! I can give you a weak definition, though: time is the one-directional dimension of our universe, which some like to call the 'space-time continuum' because of this. The flow of events.

On a more philosophical note, different views may appear. For example, Kant thought it's not an inherent property of reality but rather a way our perception has to understand phenomena (filtered events), our own mind places them in a time and a space, inventing the concepts of time and space.

Time is certainly very subjective, so our perception of it may not reflect the actual thing. And 'the actual thing' is impossible to know outside our perception.

What are your views on time?
 

Vultar

Active Member
God was working on a science fair project... Oops... Big Bang....

Good thing I don't believe in a god :D
 
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