Where did God come from?

[RATTER15]

Well!!!!!!!

[joko]

from a very successful confidence trickster...

[naomi24]

OG, just saying. It's obviously up to you how you define it - but if you don't we've discovered that's what other posters usually assume.

[percypineapple]

old-geezer,
you have no sense of humour, my posting was a joke. Anyway, in case there is still someone out there who doesn't grasp all this, god is the thing in your brain that has been instilled to know right from wrong, mostly in Christians, but also in some other faiths. its why we have civilisation.

[seadogg]

O.K. as far as it goes Percy. God may be a means of social control in societies but logically that in itself doesn't negate the existence of a deity, and again, no arguing one way or the other.

[pillj123]

Not for us mere mortals to answer ....sadly....except by guessing.Only God knows............hmmmmmm !

[humbersloop]

Percy
//god is the thing in your brain that has been instilled to know right from wrong, mostly in Christians, but also in some other faiths. its why we have civilisation.//

Is also a joke, no?

It's also why we have punctuation, but that's by the by.

[Old_Geezer]

Ah, a lack of a sense of humour; always been a failing of mine I'm afraid.

[joko]

percy - are you suggesting that without religion people don't know right from wrong?

utterly ridiculous

i would also add that given the amount of atrocities and rotten things committed by the very religious, your comment is a pretty ignorant, naive and brainwashed thing to say...

[jomifl]

OG, There could be a zillion universes outside our's, but we will (probably) never know and the same applies to god(s).

[Khandro]

I asked for a definition earlier from the questioner, and it is still not forthcoming.

[WyeDyed]

Birdie - That begs the question - Why did He [sic] make us flawed?

Does He LIKE to see us suffer?

Not much 'love' there as far as I can see.

[WyeDyed]

I was about to launch into a rant and then re read the original post...
God comes from the void in knowledge.
Why did the rains not come so that the crops failed?... Who caused the storm that sunk the boat?... Why did my husband/son/wife/daughter not return?...

Would have some "ritual" have saved them?

[sith123]

god didnt come from anywhere...thats why hes called god.

[beso]

God comes from ignorance.

[Mymom]

Birdie:
under the heading “god,” one dictionary says: “A person or thing of supreme value.” Those regarded as gods today include the millions of gods worshiped by Hindus, as well as those worshiped by Buddhists, Shintoists, animists, and other religionists. It also includes the god of materialism, the thing of supreme value for most people on earth, the main motivation in their lives. It also includes the gods of military might and science that the nations look to for security and salvation.
Where did God come from? Well, the Bible answers that God did not have a beginning. God has always existed. As difficult as the concept of God’s eternity is to grasp, we cannot dismiss the idea simply because we cannot fully comprehend it.
Atheists may believe that everything began by chance. But if you take the natural laws, precision and organisation seen throughout the universe, then surely it is logical to conclude that there is some intelligent creator behind it all rather than just blind chance. I suppose an atheist would say,m “In the beginning something,….” Whereas the Bible begins by saying,m “In the beginning God…..”
As to his not telling humankind about himself, you will find the answers in the Bible – that is if you really study it and not just read it as words.
As to our being flawed. That goes back to Adam & Eve, again if you studied the Bible and not just read it, you will find the answers.
But of course – you don’t have an open mind.

[Mymom]

pau_l3
God doesn't have names in different languages. It is the same name, Jehovah Ps. 83 v 18 KJV tells us. It is just that as with most names different languages have different ways of pronounciation.
eg. John/Johann/Juan Patricia/Batexia/Patrice
therefore: Jehovah/Yehehua/Geova/Jehova

[jake-the-peg]

mymon

Science knows that things happen by chance

You may see lots of natural laws but when you look deeper it's all probability, chance.

Look at a cloud, it wasn't designed that shape, they're not all square, your fingerprints, the turbulance from cigarette ash

It's all chance, chaos.

at the very lowest level science is entirely founded on probability

We don't know what an electron will do - we know itill have a 10% chance of doing one thing and 90% of another

look deeper

[beso]

The Bible is nothing more than a book written by arrogant, ignorant men. The "answers" are nothing more than products of their imagination. The stories in the Bible are not even self consistent let alone consistent with observed reality.

It is not logical to conclude that there is an intelligence behind the universe. That presumption is based squarely on the assujption that there is a God as described in the Bible.

Just because one cannot comprehend that the Universe and all the order in it is possible without a supreme intelligence it does not mean that it must be so.

It is profoundly ironic for a person of faith to accuse others of not having an open mind. By definition faith requires a closed mind.