Before Creation

[stitchy]

This came up in a discussion I was having with some new friends on Saturday evening. We were just chatting about God and I can't remember the entire conversation, but this question came up in my mind:

What did God do before Creation?

We know that God is infinite. So He has always been there, and will always be there. But before he created the earth, and us, what did He do?

Do you think maybe there were other worlds he made, worlds that had their own stories and their own Bible?

He is an awesome being, though... so somehow I think that the answer to this question and other questions like it are beyond my mentality. He is all-knowing and all-powerful... perhaps I wouldn't even be able to fathom what there was before us.

But what do you think? I find it interesting to think about.

God bless.

[Floatingaxe]

I agree...you cannot replenish what wasn't already "plenished" beforehand.

[Guest lovinghim4ever]

I agree...you cannot replenish what wasn't already "plenished" beforehand.

Good point!

[SueZQ]

I look at it like this.... God was

[Guest Biblicist]

I think God was doing much the same thing he's been doing since creation. Loving us and offering us the best there is!

[stitchy]

Thanks for your responses. This is really really interesting. I think I'll do some research and come back with my input, if I find anything useful.

[Giaour]

It's possible that God was writing blonde jokes.

[kat8585]

I think that of course He created other worlds, that didn't fall like ours did, and the inhabitants are watching us--we are the theater of the universe. I've never heard of the Gap theory.

[nebula]

What did God do before Creation?

Psalms 131

A Song of Ascents. Of David.

1 Lord, my heart is not haughty, Nor my eyes lofty.

Neither do I concern myself with great matters, Nor with things too profound for me.

2 Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul, Like a weaned child with his mother; Like a weaned child is my soul within me.

3 O Israel, hope in the Lord From this time forth and forever.

Questions like this are fun to speculate on, but in the end we have to acknkowledge it does not say in the Bible what the Lord did for eternity before us. (Even if there was a pre-Adamic world, what did the Lord do before that world? Or even if the universe is 13 or so billion years old - what did the Lord do before then?)

We are not given that knowledge.

So anything we come up with is speculation.

My point - please let us keep things in perspective.

OK?

[quieth3art]

There are a couple of good points in these posts. God gave us these incredible brains that come up with incredible questions and so often humans DO find answers. However, here we are trying to understand infinity with finite minds. Just try to grasp the idea of "eternity" - without beginning or end - I think it is impossible to do with our limited minds.

Psalms 46:10 Be still and know that I am God....

That is all we can do. Have faith and know that He knows and He may share it with us one day... or He may not. He Is - and we can not grasp all that He is, all that He has done and all that He will do.

WhySoBlind, truly excellent thoughts in your post, definite food for thought.

~L