God before creation

Godwilling · Apr 22, 2012

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 · Apr 22, 2012

Godwilling said:
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?

InvestigateTruth · Apr 22, 2012

That's why God's creation had alwayes existed with Him.

http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/o/BNE/bne-163.html.utf8
http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/o/BNE/bne-163.html.utf8?query=creation&action=highlight#gr1

zenzero · Apr 22, 2012

Friend Godwilling,

God before creation

Have heard that existence is ETERNAL.
*God*??? who is THAT???

Love & rgds

Quintessence · Apr 22, 2012

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 · Apr 22, 2012

Godwilling said:
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.

Sleeppy · Apr 22, 2012

I think you've let unimportant questions get the better.

idav · Apr 22, 2012

God didnt exist until it was aware of itself.

RubyEyes · Apr 22, 2012

Godwilling said:
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?

Godwilling said:
Was He bored?

No. Why would God be bored?

Godwilling said:
Was He just there alone doing nothing?

He was alone, being God. That's not doing nothing.

Godwilling said:
To whom did He speak?

Why would God need to speak?

Godwilling said:
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.

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

mmm, no.

Godwilling said:
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 · Apr 22, 2012

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 · Apr 22, 2012

RubyEyes said:
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?

Hevenly Heathen · Apr 22, 2012

RubyEyes said:
He also created time at that point, so what do you mean by before?

Please explain Time

BruceDLimber · Apr 23, 2012

Godwilling said:
What did God do with himself before He created the world?

Godwilling said:
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.

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RubyEyes · Apr 23, 2012

Godwilling said:
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.

Godwilling said:
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 · Apr 23, 2012

Hevenly Heathen said:
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 · Apr 24, 2012

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

Good thing I don't believe in a god

Quagmire · Apr 24, 2012

Godwilling said:
What did God do with himself before He created the world?

Same thing we did before the internet was created: nobody remembers. :shrug:

God before creation

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beerisit

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zenzero

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1137

Here until I storm off again

Sleeppy

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idav

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RubyEyes

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Madhuri

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Godwilling

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Hevenly Heathen

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BruceDLimber

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Vultar

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