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[AmandaJean]

Okay. We are all taught like that there is a begginning and an end. A life long battle of mine, is the one question i have never had answered. Dont get me wrong. I love god and do believe he is real. Without a doubt but the phrase "GOD was God is and God will awlays be" Bothers me. WHERE did God come from? I dont know. I know i shouldnt dwell on it too much but it bothers me. I just wish like i could understand him more but this question i feel like keeps me from moving forward and i dont know to to like get over it.

Maybe im just TOO curious?

Edited July 10, 2009 by AmandaJean

[Trusting Jesus]

Asking questions is the only way to get answers. No, you are not too curious, and probably there are a lot of people who wonder this same thing. You will get some great answers here, but let me start by giving it a try.

As human beings we only know what we experience. We can watch the sun move across the sky, watch the hands on our clocks move forward, people are born, grow, and change. All of this tells us about time from our own perspective. Time is a deminsion. God exists outside of time and that is something that our human minds have a hard time grasping. One day we will be with Him and understand these things better.

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[AmandaJean]

yes that is true. and i JUST remebered a quote a visiting pastor once said to our church. He said that when we get to heaven, we'll know the answers to all our questions, but then, we wont care, We will be in heaven, home with our creator. All those questions wont matter anymore.

[Guest]

.... I just wish like i could understand him more ....

Oh Yes!

And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

Jeremiah 29:13

It's Always Personal

But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.

Matthew 10:30-31

For We See With Eyes Of Faith

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:1

And Dine On Precious Words From Heaven

Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.

Jeremiah 15:16

And Know The Tenderness Of God

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

Psalms 139:14

And Hear His Whispers Of Love

The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

Jeremiah 31:3

And Trust In His Power

O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?

Deuteronomy 3:24

And Lean On Him

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Proverbs 3:5-6

Our Beloved

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Romans 8:15

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Love, Your Brother Joe

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

Job 19:25-27

[lekh l'kha]

Not a silly question. Me I think time is an allusion moving in cycles within an eternal, time-less "NOW" God is that eternal, time-less "NOW".

Edited July 10, 2009 by lekh l'kha

[Dougmo60]

We as human beings we can't conceive what eternity is. God is eternal no beginning no end "God was" meaning God has always been "God Is" meaning God is with us now in the present and "God always will be" meaning he is forever more. With God there is no beginning or no end all we can conceive in our finite minds is a beginning and an end.

One example I heard goes like this. When we go to be with our lord for eternity this is to give a little understanding to what eternity is. If you took a handkerchief and started to rub it over Mount Everst when you have rubbed it down to sea level with your handkerchief your first second in eternity has only just begin.

God always has been, always will be, no beginning no end, He will be forever more.

[AnnaMoodley]

Hey

I think every believer wonders about that at same stage in his/her life. We can never know the answer here on earth...our minds are just inexplicably small...to me that just shows how small and limited our knowledge is as humans...stuff like that just perplexes us...we just cant get our minds around it...but the fact remainds that we are here and we see proof of God in our lives so we know and believe that He is there...maybe when we go to Heaven our minds will be opened.

[MorningGlory]

Or, maybe, you're only TOO human, AmandaJean. It's normal to question such things and lots of us do. God is without beginning and without end; He IS time. He has always been and always will be.

[south]

God has no beginning because HE IS the beginning...

Revelation 22:12-13 (New International Version)

12"Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. 13I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

We are not called to understand God because He is beyond understanding.

Isaiah 55:8-9 (New International Version)

8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

neither are your ways my ways,"

declares the LORD.

9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth,

so are my ways higher than your ways

and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Psalm 94:11 (New International Version)

11 The LORD knows the thoughts of man;

he knows that they are futile.

Blessings...South

[EricH]

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