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I completely agree with you!
We can find many Scriptures that clearly illustrate the God has an eternal nature. Deuteronomy 33:27 speaks of “the eternal God.”
Deuteronomy 33:27 (New International Version)
“The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He will drive out your enemy before you, saying, 'Destroy him!'”
The psalmist referred to God as He who is “from everlasting to everlasting”
Psalm 90:2 (New International Version)
“Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.”
Isaiah observed that it is God Who inhabits eternity.
Isaiah 57:15 (New International Version)
“For this is what the high and lofty One says— he who lives forever, whose name is holy:
I live in a high and holy place, but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.”
Psalm 102:24 (New International Version)
“So I said: Do not take me away, O my God, in the midst of my days; your years go on through all generations.”
God Himself told Moses, “I AM WHO I AM” the formula for self-existence.
Exodus 3:14 (New International Version)“
God said to Moses, "I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.' "
By the use of the name "I AM", God is making the statement that He is eternal – there never was a time when God did not exist and there never will be a time when He doesn't exist. In fact "time" itself bears no relationship to God’s existence in the spirit realm.
The concept of an eternal "being" is beyond true human comprehension. We find in the book of Ecclesiastes:
Ecclesiastes 3:10-11 (New International Version)
“I have seen the burden God has laid on men. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.”
God is the Eternal One Who has always existed, and Who will always exist. He lives in ever-present in the past, present and future. We can’t describe God realistically as a Being Who “has been” or “will be”; rather, He must be described as without beginning or end, since he does not have any “origin.”
So, going back to our original question of “Where did God come from?” we find that in the truest sense of the word—it is a nonsensical question. It would be more correct to ask what is the origin of matter/energy (or any other temporal, non-eternal entity), because such entities do, in fact, have origins (Big Bang?). So logically, we can not proceed in regarding the origin of an entity that is defined as eternal, for such a question is meaningless. How can our finite minds struggle to understand completely the infinite.
Our origin question assumes that everything, including God, is subject to the limitation of time and space. However, Albert Einstein illustrated in his special theory of relativity that time and space is not absolute and that the perception of time is dependent on one’s frame of reference. God’s frame of reference is completely outside our paradigm and frame of reference.
While this context does not make the concept of eternality a simple notion to grasp, the facts do make it easier to accept the biblical teaching that God does in fact exist outside of time and space as we know them. And Einstein’s theory only seems to corroborate the biblical perspective of time:
Psalm 90:4 (New International Version)
“For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.”
Colossians 1:17 (New International Version)
“He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”
2 Peter 3:8 (New International Version)
“But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.”
So we find that the Bible teaches that God is not bound by time or space, and that He simply has not chosen to reveal to us all that took place before He created the universe.
God was not created but is the Creator and Sustainer of everything that we see in this universe, which is a physical realm and time only exists in this physical realm. It has no meaning in terms of our God and the spiritual realm. That means that God is bigger than what we could ever hope to comprehend while we are sitting in this time and space frame of reference. Perhaps in our perfected and eternal bodies with all of eternity before us, we will be able to begin to fathom all that God is. Perhaps…
A Pilgrim in Progress,
Lance Muller
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