Where did God come from?

Some find it perplexing that there is something rather than nothing --- that such complex, orderly and intelligent creatures such as ourselves exist.  There has for ages been explanations of “physical-existence,” however, our “conscious-existence,” our, “state of awareness” cannot be satisfactorily explained by chemical-reactions and random chance.  Both philosophers and scientists alike get lost trying to grasp this concept of our “conscious existence,” and I state that from experience.  We are able to think, to be aware, also we are extremely complex for we are… fearfully and wonderfully made by an intelligent Creator.

The questions comes: Where did God come from; what is the scientific backing to this claim?

Law of Biogenesis: “All observations have shown that life comes only from life.”  For all life to come from pre-existing life, that means that there had to be an original life-source that has always existed.

In the Bible we are told that this life-source is God who brought forth all other life from Himself.  God is eternal, uncreated, which means that God has always existed --- an eternal source of life that brought forth all other life.  When God created Adam, the 1st human man, it wasn’t until God breathed into Adam the “breath of life” that Adam became a “living soul.”  It was God’s own life energy that made Adam a conscious-being rather than merely a puppet of clay.

Let's look at this from a Biblical understanding:

[Genesis 2] (4) This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that YHWH, God, made the earth and the heavens, (5) before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For YHWH, God, had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; (6) but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. (7) And YHWH, God, formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. (8) YHWH, God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. (9) And out of the ground YHWH, God, made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

 [Psalm 90] (1) Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations. (2) Before the mountains were brought forth, or You ever had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God. (3) You turn man to destruction, and say, “Return, O children of men!” (4) For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night. (5) You carry them away like a flood. They are like a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up: (6) In the morning it flourishes and grows up. In the evening it is cut down and withers. (7) For we have been consumed by Your anger, and by Your wrath we are terrified. (8) You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your countenance. (9) For all our days have passed away in Your wrath. We finish our years like a sigh. (10) The days of our lives are seventy years, and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their boast is only labor and sorrow. For it is soon cut off, and we fly away. (11) Who knows the power of Your anger? For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath. (12) So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. (13) Return, O YHWH! How long? And have compassion on Your servants. (14) Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days! (15) Make us glad according to the days in which You have afflicted us, the years in which we have seen evil. (16) Let Your work appear to Your servants, and Your glory to their children. (17) And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.

How can we be sure this is true?

The vast majority of believers do not simply believe in God because somebody told them to, but rather because they have experienced God for themselves in their lives.  Often people come to God after experiencing/encountering His presence --- His “Holy Spirit.”  Nearly every believer carries a “testimony.”  A testimony is an experience or group of experiences in which a believer has experienced God for him or herself.  Sometimes this is through a miracle, sometimes truth is recognized by hearing it spoken from another, sometimes it is from experiencing the peace and joy emitted from a believer or group of believers, and sometimes it is from studying the Word of God that compels a non-believer to believer.  The Bible contains many very detailed prophecies fulfilled letter by letter written hundreds or even thousands of years before the events spoken of ever happened such as the very specific and detailed prophecies of the coming of the Messiah, the suffering servant we know as Jesus/Yeshua.  The Bible contains scientific and archeological truths, some barely being discovered by modern science today.  But the biggest evidence isn’t scientific-truth or archeology, it is the vast number of witnesses who have experienced God’s presence and love.  It is not just a small group, but countless of tens of millions across the world of all cultures and backgrounds.  God did not leave us in the dark; He reveals Himself to those who openly seek the truth, and through His grace and mercy, sometimes even those who don’t.  Almost anyone who has experienced God’s presence is willing to die for their testimony rather than deny God, because they know what they experienced is true, and also understand that what’s after this life is more beautiful than anything in this world.  The suffering in this world is nothing compared to the beauty of the world to come.

Where did “matter” from which all things are created come from?

Historical science tries to explain the origin of time, space and matter without God, however, the Bible gives us that information in the very first verse.  We are given an answer about the creation of “time,” “space” and “matter” as we know it.

[Genesis 1:1] In the beginning(time) God created the heavens(space) and the Earth(matter).

We are told that through His Word that God had created the things that “we see” from things that are “unseen/invisible” meaning He used substance from the spiritual realm to create the physical world.  We are limited by our 5 senses, but there is more beyond those senses that we cannot see, and there are things that are tangible beyond our limited senses.  It is similar to how a person born blind has no solid concept of the image of things that surround him/her although some pictures can be made up in their mind, or a person born deaf has no concept of sound, a person born color-blind only knows the shades of colors that can be seen within that limit of vision given.  The spiritual world surrounds us, but we cannot see it with the limitations of our own eyes, much like a gentle breeze.  The human eye, as it designed, can only see within the limit that it was built to see without additional help, however, some people have been able to see things that others haven’t, even stuff beyond our world.  A man cannot hear all the sounds that a wolf can hear, yet we are able to recognize a variety sounds by the limit of our ears and at the same time understand that the wolf can hear even more.  We cannot touch the spiritual world because of the limits of our skin and nerves, however, we can often feel the presence of God manifest within us.  There is more to life than what can be tested or even seen; there is a whole world beyond us that is completely unseen giving you an invisible touch like the wind against your skin.

[Hebrews 11] (1) Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (2) For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. (3) By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that the things which are seen were made of things which are not visible.

WHY are we here?

God, who is ever-existing, created a plan that involved living beings formed in His image.  He created us for His pleasure and told us to fill the Earth.  He knew that we would mess up and do evil, but He loved us enough to make us anyway.