What did God do before creation?

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dancer42 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 2 Jun 02 Posts: 339 Credit: 1,046,245 RAC: 1,667	Message 1320556 - Posted: 27 Dec 2012, 22:05:41 UTC - in response to Message 1320534.
	I have clearly posted here what God did before time started in our verse, as it has been written in the Bible. You either believe in God and the Bible as truth or you do not. =========================================================== Take comfort in your book, but I recommend that you take your moral's from the new testament rather than the old it will make you a kinder person. ____________
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Intelligent Design Send message Joined: 9 Apr 12 Posts: 2063 Credit: 28,567 RAC: 3	Message 1320595 - Posted: 28 Dec 2012, 0:49:30 UTC - in response to Message 1320553. Last modified: 28 Dec 2012, 0:50:31 UTC
	You would all be off topic. The question is what God did before Creation, not after creation. None of you joined in the conversation on topic and are still off topic now. ================================================ that is not true I said he delivered pizza. But more to the point if god is infinite he she or it is unknowable. there for any god that is knowable is a creation of man, any other view is the height of arrogance. so are you arrogant, or is it ok to say the universe is a neat place but man does not know every thing yet:) I don't claim to know anything about God more then what is in the Book. And yes I struggle with arrogance, but a look around here will tell you that I do indeed have that under control as compared to others here. What is knowable is within the Book called the Bible. The universe is a very neat place, however man will never know every thing--ever. To say that is the height of arrogance.
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Reed Young Send message Joined: 23 Feb 06 Posts: 122 Credit: 81,383 RAC: 0	Message 1321175 - Posted: 29 Dec 2012, 7:05:27 UTC Last modified: 29 Dec 2012, 7:07:08 UTC
	Q: What did God do before creation? A: Nothing, really, because it really doesn't exist. Whichever one strikes your fancy the most, all gods were created by humans to meet the psychological needs of the humans that invented them. There's nothing wrong with using symbols to meet your psychological needs, unless you forget they're mere symbols. Then, an ancient person's symbols are using you, and that's just pathetic. ____________
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Jim_S Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 23 Feb 00 Posts: 4416 Credit: 13,737,410 RAC: 20,432	Message 1321200 - Posted: 29 Dec 2012, 8:46:08 UTC
	24 to 30 hour lock before this is a full out Flame Fest! ____________ I Desire Peace and Justice, Jim Scott
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Robert Waite Send message Joined: 23 Oct 07 Posts: 2044 Credit: 3,291,031 RAC: 5,410	Message 1322409 - Posted: 30 Dec 2012, 21:44:37 UTC - in response to Message 1279484.
	So, just what did God do before creating the universe? Was he just floating in nothingness? Are we the creation of a bored supreme being? Before everything began, there was nothing. Not even time and space. What was God up to in the before time? Wouldn't an eternity of solitude in nothingness drive any intelligent mind insane? Are we the product of madness? This was my original question. It seems straight forward enough to me, so why am I receiving notices of lockdowns on this thread? I don't blame the mods, they aren't the one's who aren't getting along in here. Religion claims to have all of the answers, science does not make such claims. Science has no answer to what happened before time and space erupted from a singularity. This does not mean science will never know the answer but for now it's an unknown. I'm still interested in what religious believers think their god was doing before creation? I don't care which god you follow. ____________ If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied. Kipling, Rudyard
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Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 8871 Credit: 1,232,913 RAC: 1,816	Message 1322437 - Posted: 30 Dec 2012, 22:41:09 UTC - in response to Message 1322409.
	I'm still interested in what religious believers think their god was doing before creation? I don't care which god you follow. If I may ask, to what end? Do you hope to find something convincing in what they say? Do you hope to dissuade them? Or some third end I have not thought of?
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Chris S Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Nov 00 Posts: 22775 Credit: 4,524,089 RAC: 5,733	Message 1322602 - Posted: 31 Dec 2012, 12:43:56 UTC
	This was my original question. It seems straight forward enough to me, so why am I receiving notices of lockdowns on this thread? I don't blame the mods, they aren't the one's who aren't getting along in here. The mods job is to avoid :- 1. Messages intended to annoy or antagonize other people, or to hijack a thread. 2. No messages that are deliberately hostile or insulting. They are simply doing their job, to avoid flaming. @ Sarge - If I may ask, to what end? Well exactly. Why would people bother to speculate upon this? The only reason that I can see is that they have doubts about the validity of gods.
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dancer42 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 2 Jun 02 Posts: 339 Credit: 1,046,245 RAC: 1,667	Message 1322723 - Posted: 31 Dec 2012, 17:22:55 UTC - in response to Message 1322409.
	So, just what did God do before creating the universe? Was he just floating in nothingness? Are we the creation of a bored supreme being? Before everything began, there was nothing. Not even time and space. What was God up to in the before time? Wouldn't an eternity of solitude in nothingness drive any intelligent mind insane? Are we the product of madness? This was my original question. It seems straight forward enough to me, so why am I receiving notices of lockdowns on this thread? I don't blame the mods, they aren't the one's who aren't getting along in here. Religion claims to have all of the answers, science does not make such claims. Science has no answer to what happened before time and space erupted from a singularity. This does not mean science will never know the answer but for now it's an unknown. I'm still interested in what religious believers think their god was doing before creation? I don't care which god you follow. this is a basic question in philosophy It Is called causal first cause the answer is left to the individual to decide because there is no set answer. ____________
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dancer42 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 2 Jun 02 Posts: 339 Credit: 1,046,245 RAC: 1,667	Message 1322739 - Posted: 31 Dec 2012, 17:45:11 UTC
	this is dancers roommate what did god do before he created our universe? you ask. he didn't do anything but she was cleaning up the majority of mater from the previous cycle since there is no beginning or end ____________
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Bathybius & Eozoon Nummulosphere Bound Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 1301 Credit: 2,386,867 RAC: 3,314	Message 1322743 - Posted: 31 Dec 2012, 17:53:52 UTC
	The GOD, Before Creation, was Having A Good Time with The DEMON. DEMON...Me and The GOD, We Had A Thang Going On. We Both Knew It Was Wrong, But It Was Much Too Strong.....and HOT. ____________
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Gary Charpentier Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 10327 Credit: 5,098,168 RAC: 6,373	Message 1322756 - Posted: 31 Dec 2012, 18:19:03 UTC
	What did God do before creation? #gdb ./universe ____________
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ML1 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 7140 Credit: 3,686,167 RAC: 985	Message 1322784 - Posted: 31 Dec 2012, 19:39:02 UTC
	"Sorry for the inconvenience" is as good an explanation as any for the time being... (See: Douglas Adams, HHGTTG) Keep searchin, Martin ____________ Mandriva Linux A user friendly OS! See new freedom Mageia2 The Future is what We make IT (GPLv3)
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Scary Capitalist Send message Joined: 21 May 01 Posts: 7404 Credit: 63,918 RAC: 37	Message 1331299 - Posted: 25 Jan 2013, 21:44:47 UTC - in response to Message 1322784.
	There's a logical way out of this kind of argument. It seems the general point of contention is 'what created THIS (the Universe) or us. That's a presuppositional enquiry. It assumes that something had a creation at all. Our minds aren't evolved well to handle certain concepts. But we can. (e.g. Einstein [space time etc] If the Universe is eternal then there is no causation required. It's a complex idea for our minds to comprehend. spatially. And if that's true it should be true in temporal dimension. In other words, it doesn't matter where one observor starts his measure. No creation event need occur. Picture a point you make on a piece of paper with a pencil. Draw the line out indefinitely. That is an eternal line given that if it exists in physical space it goes on and on. That's a physical perameter. If existence itself is the axiomatic point of existence then there shouldn't be a question over its validity. Philosophers like Leibniz asked 'Why is there something and not nothing'?. We exist and would not be around to ask the questions he asks otherwise. ____________ Founder of BOINC team Objectivists. Oh the humanity! Rational people crunching data! I did NOT authorize this belly writing!
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