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Since space did not exist before the big bang -where was God?

Posted - July 28, 2016

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  • 1113

    I have heard people say that He is "outside of space and time". What that means precisely, no one has ever been able to tell me.

      July 28, 2016 12:27 PM MDT
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  • 2658
      July 28, 2016 12:39 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    A black hole is outside of space and time so he must have been within the black hole.
    Even if a spirit does not occupy space a place for them to occupy would not exist outside a black hole.
      July 28, 2016 12:42 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Time is infinite; time cannot have a beginning because a beginning is an element of time so time must already exist in order to enable a beginning.

    Elapsing time began at the instant the big bang occurred you could say but time is static. Everything revolves around time in a relative sense.

    So God could not be doing anything before the big bang because space did not exist for him to do anything.
      July 28, 2016 12:57 PM MDT
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  • 386
      July 28, 2016 12:58 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Even for a spirit it might be hard to exist if there was no place to occupy

    Isn't there some form of energy associated with spirits?
      July 28, 2016 1:07 PM MDT
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  •   July 28, 2016 1:13 PM MDT
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  • 1113

    Is a black hole outside space and time? They do seem to be observable objects within our universe - except for what's behind the event horizon. But our current theories about black holes also tell us that what is inside the event horizon is permanently cut off from our universe. So if God was inside a black hole, how could he affect anything outside of it? 

      July 28, 2016 1:14 PM MDT
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  • I thank God I'm an atheist so I don't have to ponder the existance of that which does not exist. 

      July 28, 2016 1:15 PM MDT
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  • 1113

    What we've learned about time is that it is NOT infinite. In our universe, it had a definite endpoint in the past, 13.7 billion years ago. I agree that there was no "before" the Big Bang, because something being before its beginning is a logical contradiction.

      July 28, 2016 1:17 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    When the universe crunches down to a single black hole there is no space for anything to be outside the black hole.

    Are you aware of big bounce theory ?
    It is unknown what triggers a black hole to 'big bang' or 'rapid expansion ' using newer terminology.
      July 28, 2016 1:26 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Google 'Big bounce theory '
      July 28, 2016 1:27 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Well it's a bit of exercise for the brain anyway.
      July 28, 2016 1:29 PM MDT
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  • From my stand point, the answer is simple... No where

      July 28, 2016 1:30 PM MDT
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  • 46117

    God created space.  HE wasn't anyplace because he did not create anyplace yet.

    There was no space, so there was no WHERE either. 

    There is something in the NO thing.  That is GOD.  The possibilities in the seed is God.  The Seed is not even a concept.  God did not create concepts yet either.

    God cannot be explained any more than anything we have not experienced can.   I use the example of trying to imagine another color that you have never seen that does not exist to our knowledge.

    Does that mean the color does not exist?  Just because we cannot imagine it?

      July 28, 2016 1:31 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Eyesight evolved so we can perceive colors. If evolution was aware of 'God' I think some sensory organ should have developed so we could perceive God just as well. -if he exists.
      July 28, 2016 1:42 PM MDT
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  • 1113

    Having a location in space and time seems to me like a critical prerequisite to be able to say a thing exists.

    I can imagine a colour existing that I have not seen before. But to say a colour exists, outside of space and time, would make no sense to me. 

      July 28, 2016 4:38 PM MDT
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  • 46117

    No it is not a black hole.  A black hole is still a thing.  It is a vacuum 

    God cannot be explained that way.  Because it is outside of the physical.  He can be felt and seen by our highest consciousness but he cannot be explained.  Not in any way that anyone can agree upon.  

    I can point the way though.  If you can get perfectly still for minutes at a time and shut all thought out and let your mind empty, there is still something there. 

    That presence is your connection to God.  Like a non-physical telephone. 

      July 28, 2016 5:12 PM MDT
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  • That's the wonderful thing about deities ... they don't obey the natural laws, they write them

      July 28, 2016 6:23 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    I think it would be connecting to something within the depths of my subconscious -like where dreams are created.
      July 28, 2016 6:33 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Some pretty nice inspired stories all right, some were a little too x rated to be included in the bible. Like angels descending down from heaven and impregnating married women and stuff like that..
    For the priest's eyes only I guess.
      July 28, 2016 6:50 PM MDT
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  • 492

    Yeah, thank the existence of that which does not exist. OK!

      July 28, 2016 7:01 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Scientific law of the conservation of matter/energy states energy /matter cannot be created or destroyed which means infinite existence.
    Think quantum state!
      July 28, 2016 7:54 PM MDT
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  • 17602

    wherever he wanted to be, just like now

      July 28, 2016 8:42 PM MDT
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