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

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.

God only knows.   http://www.buffalonews.com/opinion/viewpoints/god-must-have-existed-before-the-big-bang-20141221

What was God doing before time began?  Here's an opinion:  http://www.everystudent.com/videos/universe.html

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.

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.

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?

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? 

I thank God I'm an atheist so I don't have to ponder the existance of that which does not exist. 

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.

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.

Google 'Big bounce theory '

Well it's a bit of exercise for the brain anyway.

From my stand point, the answer is simple... No where

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?

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.

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. 

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. 

That's the wonderful thing about deities ... they don't obey the natural laws, they write them

I think it would be connecting to something within the depths of my subconscious -like where dreams are created.

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.

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

Scientific law of the conservation of matter/energy states energy /matter cannot be created or destroyed which means infinite existence.
Think quantum state!

wherever he wanted to be, just like now