Bible Question: I'm impressed with the understanding my 15 yr old has however I want to be very careful of where he is going with this topic because he is speaking in the raim of what is life and who is recording this of tour life? He feels that there is something out there he wants to know its identity? I told him that is what the average person is trying to figure out what kind of force is it and he thinks to label it is basically limiting our ability to receive it. What is it? Is it a force fill or is it something beyond man imagination of what it is? He thinks it is a force that science and or just the mere name of God doesnot define the force? |
Bible Answer: If I may so, your 15 year old sounds rather like me at that age! That seems so long ago now... The simple answer to the question "where did God come from? is, of course, that He has always existed. But what does that really mean? How can that be? If eternity means an un-ending linear sequence of events, and if everything else that exists (or has existed, or will exist) somewhere in that sequence of events had to have at least a beginning (if not not an ending as well), then surely God must *also* have had a beginning at some point in that sequence of events. But God did not have a beginning because He is the only thing that exists completely outside of that sequence of events. That sequence of events is what we call "time" and it is itself a created thing. We exist in (and are presently confined to) "time." We - and the whole universe! - are living out the sequence of events in a dimension called "time." God is the Creator of that. He is not confined to it. When God "looks" at His creation (the whole universe), He looks at it from eternity, that is from outside of the dimension of time. What that means is that He can see the beginning of time and the end of time and every milli-second in between all in the same moment. And the best part of that whole thing is that He doesn't just look in on us from outside, He actually entered into the realm or dimension of time and, more than that even, He actually became one of us. He did that ultimately so that we would have the ability and opportunity to enter into *His* realm of eternity. The plain and simple truth is that we cannot really wrap our minds around the concept of eternity. We try to think of it in terms of "un-ending time," and we do that because we are really confined to time (at least that is true for those of us in *this* world). But eternity is not "un-ending time." Rather it is being outside of the created dimension of time. I hope that this may be of some help, even if it is only "food for thought." I wrestled with this question (and several others!) for many years before I became a believer. I pray that your 15 year old will diligently seek and find some of those answers in much less time than it took me. Make sure that he or she knows that there *are* some answers to be found, but that there are also always going to be unanswered questions. And thank God for that! Have a good day! Bob |
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