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"In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth.." Where did time and space come from to give God a place to create?

How could God exist before space was created since there would be no place for him to exist?

Posted - August 17, 2016

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  • 13395
    Does not specify any particular time but 'in the beginning'would mean when the story of the bible began.
      August 18, 2016 2:01 PM MDT
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  • 2515
    God doesn't need space. God is spirit. God is, and has been, and will be. Time was created with the Big Bang.
      August 18, 2016 2:08 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Time cannot be created because time has no beginning. A beginning is an element of time so time would have to already exist in order for a beginning to occur.

    I don't know how anything including God can occupy a place where space does not exist for a place to occupy. Even time does not exist where space does not exist. Wait a minute...
      August 18, 2016 2:19 PM MDT
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  • 16

    I guess "in the beginning"  means the beginning of our universe. That's where the Bible starts.  There's no mention of what was happening before that.  

    Besides all the really cool stuff happens later.  Jonah gets swallowed by a whale and lives inside it.  Noah lives to be 400 years old, then builds an ark and sets sail with a floating zoo while God kills every living thing on Earth. To force a Pharoh in Egypt to release his slaves God sends an Angel to kill children. (Seems if He could create a universe dealing with one little Pharoh would be a snap.)  God turns a lady into salt for looking over her shoulder and He ruins a man's entire life to settle a bet with Satan.

    On and on it goes.  

      August 19, 2016 6:28 PM MDT
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  • 16

    Google that question.  There are theories, but no one really knows.  You are correct when you say space would not exist and that there is no "outside", at least not in the three dimensions we understand. 

      August 19, 2016 6:33 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Perhaps 'in the beginning' means the beginning of the story of the bible.

    Snce there no outside the universe do you think that would mean the the universe must be nfinite in space/time?
      August 19, 2016 9:21 PM MDT
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  • 16

    If you go through the Bible, beginning with Genesis, and count through you come up with an age of 6000 years.  It's ridiculous. 

      August 19, 2016 11:59 PM MDT
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