Did God Create Him/Herself?

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THE central question in the prime mover thesis. Those who object to the notion of literal creation point out that the universe could just as well be eternal as any deity.

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Here, let me make that a little clearer, with an imaginary conversation:

HE: God created the universe.

SHE: Who created God?

HE: No one, God is eternal?

SHE: Entia non sunt multiplicanda, God would be an unneeded intermediary--the universe itself could just as well be eternal.

HE: Say what ? ! ? ! ?

SHE: Your fly's down.

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God created allright
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There is also this possibility, which I am unable to substantiate:

Since all of our observations can be understood only through the entities of space and time, it may very well be that God has either fabricated or created these.

Some interesting corollaries are possible: One is that time started with the first creation, identified in the bible as Jesus.

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Setanta wrote:

THE central question in the prime mover thesis. Those who object to the notion of literal creation point out that the universe could just as well be eternal as any deity.

Which leads to this contradictory question: What caused cause and effect?

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Derevon wrote:

Setanta wrote:
THE central question in the prime mover thesis. Those who object to the notion of literal creation point out that the universe could just as well be eternal as any deity.

Which leads to this contradictory question: What caused cause and effect?

Exactly. God would, by definition, not be subject to the same laws of cause and effect as are we. He is, after all, the supreme lawgiver, the one whose name means "He who causes to become".

See, Derevon, there are a few things with which we can agree.

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No, God did not create God.

We did. Aren't we spiffy?

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God in Hindi means generator operator and director

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Actually, Setanta, that's extremely flawed. The universe has been proven to have had a beginning-- thus, it is not eternal. God, however, requires no beginning.

That's the plain and simple of it. If you'd like me to elaborate further, just ask, but I don't feel like launching into an all out explanation unless I need to.

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In the seventies we had a commercil where they tricked mother nature into thinking margarine was her own sweet dairy butter.The results of fooling her were not very nice.

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Well, when Moses asked him his name, didn't God refer to himself as "I am that I am?" This might suggest that he did, or, to paraphrase a "Star Trek" episode: "I am my own beginning and my own ending."

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so who ate the margarine ?

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so who ate the margarine ?

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so who ate the margarine ?

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Ohm

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Rex wrote:

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The universe has been proven to have had a beginning-- thus, it is not eternal. God, however, requires no beginning.

Come on Rex, you know better than that.

The point is: the whole argument of "Everything has a cause, so the first cause must be a god" breaks down when you start excluding things like gods from the category "everything"

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Alpha-Omega ...always was here always will be.

The spoken word, sound vibration.Word before language is acoustic frequency. Every element living, and non living matter has a specific frequency that it vibrates at. (scientific FACT)

You who call yourselves believers, Hippocrates! On one subject you say you are believers and here in this thread you are questioning the truth. Where is your faith.

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puglia wrote:

Alpha-Omega ...always was here always will be.

The spoken word, sound vibration.Word before language is acoustic frequency. Every element living, and non living matter has a specific frequency that it vibrates at. (scientific FACT)

You who call yourselves believers, Hippocrates! On one subject you say you are believers and here in this thread you are questioning the truth. Where is your faith.

Judge not, lest ye be judged the same as ye hath judged.

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puglia wrote:

Alpha-Omega ...always was here always will be.

The spoken word, sound vibration.Word before language is acoustic frequency. Every element living, and non living matter has a specific frequency that it vibrates at. (scientific FACT)

You who call yourselves believers, Hippocrates! On one subject you say you are believers and here in this thread you are questioning the truth. Where is your faith.

Judge not, lest ye be judged the same as ye hath judged.

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