What is god?

[Abdull]

Where did god come from, when did god come into being, was god created or has always been here, does god know all?

[BK1110]

God was uncreated and has always existed. He created time itself, as well as everything in and of this universe, from nothing.

[Tristen]

Hello Abdull,

You asked, “What is god?”

The God of the Bible is the eternal, supernatural Creator of all of space and time. His existence encompases, and defines, the limits of reality.

 

“Where did god come from”

The natural law of causality only necessarily limits the things which are created by God. That rule (i.e. that everything has an origin/cause) therefore does not apply to God (i.e. the One Who created the rule).

Furthermore, since God created the physical universe, God existed before the concept of “where” came into being.

 

“when did god come into being”

God is eternal. Since God created time, He pre-existed the concept of “when”. That is, time itself did not exist before God created it.

 

“was god created or has always been here”

God has “always been”, but “here” has not “always been”. Physical reality did not exist until God created it.

 

“does god know all?”

Yes. The Biblical God is omniscient (all-knowing).

 

 

[johnthebaptist]

22 hours ago, Abdull said:

Where did god come from, when did god come into being, was god created or has always been here, does god know all?

I can answer your last question: Yes, God knows all.

[Raven]

23 hours ago, Abdull said:

Where did god come from, when did god come into being, was god created or has always been here, does god know all?

God is Truth.

This Truth is unconditional, it cannot compromise itself to be other than what is True of the Greater Reality.

We humans that are caught up in this world, we walk through, live a life of conditionality. It is a life of doubt, compromise, it's a life of fear. It knows not what a life of unconditional truth is. Under such conditions, God seems to be unreal, untrue. However, doubt has two sides, and right now you are questioning what is God?

Where did god come from? Truth is. If there is no truth, then it is unreal.

When did god come into being? Truth is being (exists).

Was god created or has always been here? You already know this answer.

Does god know all? God knows all that is true and real; for what is not true does not exist beyond our own fabricated stories about people, places, things, and situations. The world, the unsaved, walk through is their own conditional reality. It has nothing to do with the Greater Reality.

[JohnD]

'ehyeh asher 'ehyeh = I AM BECAUSE I AM

God exists because God exists.

God is the basis for existence.

1 Corinthians 15:10 (AV)
10 But by the grace of God I am what I am...

Because He Is... all things exist.

Colossians 1:16 (AV)
16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

Psalm 90:2 (AV)
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

According to the laws of physics all things have a beginning a middle and an end.

God transcends the law of physics. God is Spirit (John 4:24).

Spirits have no end (Mark 9:44-48). But even the spirits have a beginning... except for the Spirit of God who alone is immortal (1 Timothy 6:16).

We would say God alone is eternal (from eternity past to eternity future) God exists without beginning or end.

 

Edited July 6, 2021 by JohnD

[JohnD]

God the Father knows all (Acts 1:7).

God the Son does not know the day of his return to Earth Matthew 24:36 / Mark 13:32).

God the Holy Spirit must search the mind of God (the Father) see 1 Corinthians 2:10.

There appears to be an authoritative hierarchy established in the Godhead for the will (plan) of God.

While never ceasing to be God (in the Greek: morphe theos huparchon) God the Word emptied himself to become a man (Philippians 2:5-11).

I offer an opinion.

Take it or leave it.

Eternal God, before anyone or anything else existed, existed in perfect communion and equality in every aspect of deity. None of the three were in authority or submission.

But then came creation. And in order to relate to this temporal existence, transcendent God had to stoop down (so to speak). And both the Word and the Spirit did so in order to interact with temporal beings for the purposes of God's salvation plan.

This is not to imply the Father is uninvolved directly or inaccessible... he spoke the great commission of Christ "this is my beloved Son..."

He gave Peter the good confession  (Matthew 16:16-17).  We can pray directly to him (John 16:26-27).

Whatever that all-knowingness is, it exists on a higher plain than anything else.

I define omniscience as knowing all things all the time in all places and in all ways PLUS all the variables and possible outcomes from the limited sovereignty God gave men and angels.

[other one]

On 6/28/2021 at 7:35 PM, Abdull said:

Where did god come from, when did god come into being, was god created or has always been here, does god know all?

first of all, you need to define what you mean by that word god.   The Bible tells us that there are many gods and lords.   Jesus and the Father created all the other Gods except the Holy Spirit.

Since we know little to nothing about where they exist, we can't really know the answers to some your questions.    We are told that the Father has always existed, and before Jesus was translated into the form of a man, he was in the form of god and he had always existed with the Father.

Where they came from or anything about them before the creation of the world is pure speculation.    

We are just beginning to understand a bit about the upper dimensions of the universe through theoretical physics that sheds a little light as to the possibilities as to where they exist and how they do what they do.

 

[JohnD]

An aside, I am reminded of astonishment over otherwise brilliant minds faced with the dilemma that universal existence depends on a Creator God... namely "what caused the big bang?"

And these otherwise ingenious men's minds all go TILT.

For you youngsters here, "tilt" was what ancient mechanisms from the 1970's would read whenever they froze or locked up.

Machio Kaku, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and others all cop out with a flimsy definition of time and that time did not exist prior to the big bang so the question what caused the big bang (according to them) is moot. 

Time is not just the measure of the progression (i.e. motion) in existence, it is the progression (i.e. motion) itself.

Their cop out premise is that there was nothing prior to the big bang to measure that progression by justifies their full stop of speculative reason and experimentation (in other words science which is their god they all swear by). For no other reason than logic dictates there has to have been a cause, and at this juncture only an entity of vast power and reason (who designed with deliberate intent) who transcends the laws of physics, caused the big bang (explosion) and created from nothing the elements of that big bang that exploded.

And there they simply refuse to go.

"I don't wanna!"

"I'm taking my ball and going home!"

And they call themselves scientists, and leaders...

Ha!

Edited July 6, 2021 by JohnD

[JohnD]

Without motion from the largest scale to the smallest quantum scale, the entire universe would be frozen. 

Simply put, you can't have a traffic intersection that doesn't regulate the directional flow of traffic or there would

be perpetual gridlock.

The Pauli exclusion principle is the quantum mechanical principle which states that two or more identical fermions (particles with half-integer spin) cannot occupy the same quantum state within a quantum system simultaneously.