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If God created the heavens and earth, my question is (and I have not found a pastor who could answer it) If God created the heavens and earth, where did God come from?
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God didn't "come from" anywhere...God is entirely self-contained. God
has always "been," and there would be no reality without him. If there
was "something" before God, then that something would be God.
God is the First Source and Center - the Uncaused Cause. It
is difficult to wrap our minds around this concept of the eternal and
infinite God, but The Urantia Book helps a great deal. God is
indeed mysterious, but much about him can be comprehended by human
beings:
The Universal Father is the God of all creation, the First Source and
Center of all things and beings. First think of God as a creator, then
as a controller, and lastly as an infinite upholder. The truth about
the Universal Father had begun to dawn upon mankind when the prophet
said: "You, God, are alone; there is none beside you. You have created
the
heaven
and the heaven of heavens, with all their hosts; you
preserve and control them. By the Sons of God were the universes made.
The Creator covers himself with light as with a garment and stretches
out the heavens as a curtain." Only the concept of the Universal
Father—one God in the place of many gods—enabled
mortal man to comprehend the Father as divine creator and infinite
controller.
The
myriads of planetary systems were all made to be eventually inhabited
by many different types of intelligent creatures, beings who could know
God, receive the divine affection, and love him in return. The universe
of universes is the work of God and the dwelling place of his diverse
creatures. "God created the heavens and formed the earth; he
established the universe and created this world not in vain; he formed
it to be inhabited."
The enlightened worlds all recognize
and worship the Universal Father, the eternal maker and infinite
upholder of all creation. The will creatures of universe upon universe
have embarked upon the long, long
Paradise
journey, the fascinating
struggle of the eternal adventure of attaining God the Father. The
transcendent goal of the children of time is to find the eternal God,
to comprehend the divine nature, to recognize the Universal Father.
God-knowing creatures have only one supreme ambition, just one
consuming desire, and that is to become, as they are in their spheres,
like him as he is in his Paradise perfection of personality and in his
universal sphere of righteous supremacy. From the Universal Father who
inhabits eternity there has gone forth the supreme mandate, "Be you
perfect, even as I am perfect." In love and mercy the messengers of
Paradise have carried this divine exhortation down through the ages and
out through the universes, even to such lowly animal-origin creatures
as the human races of Urantia. (1:0.2)
This quote is from the very first Paper of The Urantia Book. I would
suggest to you that you read it through: The
Universal Father. It may help you to understand better the
immensity
and also the loving personality of the Universal Father. And if you
have not already done so, please feel free to subscribe (free) to
Truthbook's Quote
of the Day service.
Thanks for this question. I hope you will take advantage of our online
Urantia Book, as well as the many helpful features of our site, and
fully satisfy your curiosity about God.
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