Where Did God Come From? (Philosophy Of The Science Of God's Realm)

            It has before been observed that humans are always seeking out origin.  This is innate.  When seeking out the origin of the universe, the two main schools of thought are that the universe came about either by the Big Bang or by God.  At this point the question that inevitably follows is, "Where, then, did IT come from?"

• In the Theory of Evolution, it is often asked, "What happened one second before the Big Bang?
• In theology, it is asked, "What was God doing before He created the universe?

These questions are nonsensical.

           Whether the Big Bang Theory is true or God is true (for I most assuredly reject that both can be true, since the original text of the Pentateuch does not allow room for the Evolutionary Theory in the history of the creation of man), there is one truth that is an inexorable fact: There was no time before the universe was created.

• If we assume that the Big Bang Theory is true and ask, "What happened one second before the Big Bang?" the answer is: There is no such thing as "before the Big Bang."  Time began with the explosion of matter.  If no time exists, then there is no principal of cause and effect.  This principal only became universal law with the creation of the universe.
• If we assume that God created the universe, we cannot ask, "Where did God come from?"  This implies that God has origin, and origin is unique to our universe.  God does not have origin because in His realm there is no time, no cause and effect, no before and after.

    As an example, think about how every human action requires something to precede it.  I cannot walk through a door before opening it.  I cannot open the door before turning the handle.  I cannot turn the handle before extending my arm to it.  I cannot extend my arm all the way before extending it partway.
This line of thought is endless if carried on to the smallest degrees of measurement and beyond.  But imagine a world where there was no cause and effect or before and after; where I could turn the door knob with my arm before extending it, or extend my arm all the way before having extended it partway.  This makes no sense to us, but it describes as closely as possible the nature of God's habitat which is not bound by the constraints of time.

    It is our inability to know what God's world is like that causes us to ask questions that make no sense in His world: mainly 1.) questions of motive and 2.) questions of origin.

1. Questions about divine motive are indeed sensible, though they usually go unanswered as the motives of God are very involved and more intelligent than the mind of the wisest man can conceive.
2. Questions about divine origin are not sensible as there is no such thing as birth or creation in a realm where time does not exist.

     If the Big Bang Theory is correct, the only philosophical/scientific problem becomes: can time be brought about without causation?  The answer of the evolutionists is yes.  This answer is good and also difficult if not impossible to negate based on the fact that the exact instant of creation was the bridge between two eras: 1.) when causation brought about an effect and 2.) when it did not.  Based on this principle, it might be possible that once, and only once, something can come from nothing.
            - The above concept is a difficult one, and I am not completely convinced as to its veracity as I am of its logical legitimacy.

• Einstein proposed that time was like a flowing river and that space and time were mutually inextricable.
• Because of this, pockets in space (black holes) are also pockets in time.  Think of these as whirlpools in the river of time: the water (time) goes faster around them.
• He also theorized that if one could stand on the edge of a black hole without being sucked into its vacuum, one could theoretically look at Earth and see civilizations rise and fall in just a matter of minutes to his perception.

This may shed some light on the definition of eternity because we see time in the shape of a vector: linear and only moving one direction at one speed.  Who can say what God's timeline looks like?
        - It may travel in two directions, perhaps three or any number of directions.

        - It may not be linear in shape, but spherical or morphed into any other form.

        - It may have characteristics that would require abstract description:

            - Malleability, strength, smoothness, etc.

Everything of God's realm is so far divorced from our thoughts that it is vain to expect any fruitful answers upon mere contemplation of them.

          Since we as humans tend to compare time to bodies of water it may be most effective to compare God's time world to that of a lake or pond.  When we speak of eternity, we naturally suppose a place where the river of time flows endlessly, but this preserves the characteristics of time, which play no role in eternity.  Time in eternity is stagnant, dead, and unmoving.  There is no cause and effect.  This is why God wasn't alive 15 trillion years ago.  There never was a "15 trillion years ago."  He was merely inhabiting a place of timelessness prior to the universe, if "prior to the universe" were a legitimate concept.

         Time is a river, eternity is a great, still sea.  It is believed that one day the river will flow into that sea and be eradicated.  Otherwise stated: "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."