What did God do before creation?

So, just what did God do before creating the universe?

So, just what did God do before creating the universe?

Why only one creation? Is God somehow bound that he can only do one creation event? What limits him?

So, just what did God do before creating the universe?

Why only one creation? Is God somehow bound that he can only do one creation event? What limits him?

Gary,
There are many planets with people living on them, just like us.

John.

Kolob? ;)

IIRC Genesis doesn't record when the angels and other members of the "Heavenly Host" were created.

Therefore it's possible to speculate they were all involved in the design, architecture, planning meetings, computer programming and simulations, developing the Higgs boson to hold it all together etc. and getting ready for the launch of the project.

Everyone involved in science, engineering and construction knows that The Boss gets all the credit while the lackeys do all the work.

T.A.

You know, I wonder whether of not this thread should be re-titled "What did YOUR god do before their LAST creation? Why do I think that?

As has been said before, there is no proof there is a god, any god, or the god. Also there is no proof that there isn't. So until evidence emerges to confirm it one way or the other, religion and gods is simply down to an individuals personal faith and belief.

I think Johnney is right in that the universe is infinite and has always been here, but I think that there was a local big bang in our small part of it a long time ago, when probably a super massive black hole couldn't hold any more matter and blew up scattering stars all over the place. The whole universe itself is in a semi steady state, with various local occurrences causing a ripple every now and then.

The Creation mentioned in the bible is not the big bang, or what ever brought about what we observe today, but the history of the creation of the human race, and the jury are still out on whether ET was involved. The addition of light is an interesting one!

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was
upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon
the face of the waters.

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

Chris,
The bible is coded, all of it! All of the books of the bible are full of metaphors and analogies that MUST be interpreted! Its very difficult! Also, over one third of the bible is prophsey about future events.

To understand Genesis, you need this bit;
According to Psalms 90:4 and 2 Peter 3:8,
"a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day" with God.

So Chris the days mentioned in the book of Genesis are a thousand years!

They got here about 30,000 years ago. But as we know, this planet has been around much longer than that. They DID NOT create this planet!! But they did make planet-wide modifications to the atmosphere. And they were at that for about 2,000 years before they started genetic experiments with living creatures.

John.
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The bible is coded, all of it! All of the books of the bible are full of metaphors and analogies that MUST be interpreted! Its very difficult! Also, over one third of the bible is prophsey about future events.

Thats is a point that most people forget Steve. The dead sea scrolls themselves were writen between 408 BCE and 318 CE in Hebrew,Aramaic,Greek and Nabataean.
So there is some translation there. And we have all seen examples of how translations can go wrong. ( Any one read instructions from Japanese to English )

Plus add in the books that never made the cut into the bible for whatever reason the church had.

I think decodeing is just chasing a wild goose. It makes for great books and movies but if there was any chance it was real, Why isnt somebody using BOINC to decode it?
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I'm simply asking those who believe in the God written of in the Bible if they have any explanation as to his activities during the eternity before the so called creation.

Knowledge, partial or full, of something does not necessarily imply being part of that thing. I am not, nor ever was, Mormon.
In this case, the knowledge comes from something near and dear to your ancient aliens theory: http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Kobol.