if god is realy real like they say then where did he come from?
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You have to understand first that we are not on the same realm as God.  God is higher than us.  His ways and his thought are higher than ours.  We should never question anything that God has done\n\nAs for where God came from...God has always been.  It is hard for us to imagine this because we think only as humans.  To us,  there is a beginning and an ending to all things.  Not to God.  God always has been and always will be.
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You don't need historical evidence to belieive in God. Its a matter of your level of faith, you either believe in him or you don't. Sure, there may not be a lot of proof, but I know he is there, I know he exists, without him where do you think you came from?
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Gd is certainly real, even if you may not believe in Jesus. The Jews have believed in Gd for 4,000 years, without Jesus, and continue, and continue to believe in Gd without Jesus today.\n\nLet me remind you that the Bible tells us that miracles do NOT prove someone is from Gd, or that his or her message is from Gd. We are specifically told that if someone comes to you with a message he claims is from Gd, tells you that he will perform a miracle, and then he, INDEED, DOES THAT MIRACLE, it doesnt matter so long as his message contradicts what Gd has already told us. Read Deuteronomy 13:1-5\n\n     Deuteronomy 13:1-5 1If there arise among you a \n     prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth \n     thee a sign or a wonder, 2  And the sign or \n     the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto \n     thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, \n     which thou hast not known, and let us serve \n     them; 3  Thou shalt not hearken unto the words \n     of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: \n     for the Etrnl your Gd proveth you, to know \n     whether ye love the Etrnl your Gd with all \n     your heart and with all your soul. 4  Ye shall \n     walk after the Etrnl your Gd, and fear him, \n     and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, \n     and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. \n     5  And that prophet, or that dreamer of \n     dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath \n     spoken to turn you away from the Etrnl your \n     Gd, which brought you out of the land of\n     Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of \n     bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which \n     the Etrnl thy Gd commanded thee to walk in. \n     So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst \n     of thee. \n\nSo, even if it could be proved that Jesus did miracles, it would not prove that Christianity is right. \n\nThis is especially true when one compares the basic Christian beliefs about Jesus with what one finds in the Bible. One example, Deuteronomy 24:16 "....Every man must die for his own sins.  (Eesh b'chet-o yumatu)."
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Yes, there is seriously a God.  The fact that you are asking this question is proof of that.
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I think the question that you ask is a valid and an intelligent one- but the answer is very hard to formulate.\n\nSorry to disappoint you, but indeed, God has always existed since time immemorial, so there is nothing more ancient than God. Since God is an immortal entity, he has been here forever, and will thusly remain here forever...it's up to you to decide what 'here' means.\n\nNothing nor no one created him- although we tend to think of things in these concrete terms, and have a deep appreciation for causality and logic, many of the terms we use just don't apply to God, the creator of the cosmos. Again, he wasn't created- he has always been there. We can't see back that far into time.\n\nSorry if my answer fails to suffice. \n\nI am a Christian, by the way, if you were curious or if you hadn't gathered.
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God is soveriegn, and everything that happens is according to His will. Sometimes God even has to allow bad things to happen to make people turn to him or to help people trust in Him.
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The fact the christianity and other such religions have a particular point of origin proves that they aren't for real.\n\nWhy would god have made these people here and these people there, so the people there could tell the people here all about him?  Thats absurd.
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There is no way of knowing that. Maybe one day we'll have enough information to figure it out. Maybe God created it, if he/she/it exists. Maybe it has simply always been there. Logically, there must be something which has simply always existed.\n\nIn response to the person who answered after me - Something must have simply always been. No matter what it is, you can ask where it came from. And when you have an answer for that, you must question where THAT (the source of the first thing) came from. I'd say it's pretty illogical for that to continue infinitely, so there must be something that came from nothing. I never said that something had to be the matter. Just that there must be something which has simply always been. Maybe the source of all the matter is something that has always been. Those who believe in God would say that he is the source of that matter, and that he has simply always existed. Maybe it is the source of the source of the source of the source of the source (you get the idea) of the matter that has always existed. Logic suggests that eventually you would have to reach the beginning of all existence, and whatever it is that started everything.
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God is the Creator and we where created by Him. \n\nHe always was, is and will be!\n\nHe's the Begining and the End, the First and the Last, and the Forever....
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God is our creation but we turned around to claim that he created us.\n\nof course people will say god created us becauase the bible said so. and where did that information in the bible come from, god--- circular logic
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It is a result of a crazy desire to be someone or something we are not, and never can be in truth.  \n\nGod is everything, but everything that is real.  The Nature of God is freedom, thus, we are free to discover our true state of being, beneath the illusions of abuse and poverty, and all other things that are not so.  \n\nThere is God, and everything God created.  Only this.  Everything else is perception, and perception is a wish fulfilled.
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It could be, it could not be. Its one of those things you have to experience and study yourself, and come to your own conclusions. One could ask "Is God for real"? And in reality, nobody has 100% solid proof that God is "for real". You just have to believe in it yourself regardless of what other people think.
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No, you shouldn't think god is real unless god manifests himself materially and can be measured scientifically.\n\nTo insist on the existance of something that can never be measured is "very superstitious!" as Stevie Wonder once sang so perfectly.  Most superstitious people are trippy, indifferent to those who think differently from themselves, and, to be nice about this, hunting for someone to rip them off.  \n\nNow, on the other hand, some things are real but are HARD to measure scientifically because they are qualities rather than physical objects.  Suppose God is the quality of generousity or kindness or increasing wisdom or enthalpy?  For this God, you keep reason "in," it doesn't matter very much how much faith you have, and God "inspires" us by making us kinder or wiser.\n\nExample: "My religion is kindness," said the Dalai Lama.\n\nExample:  "What Anglicans Believe in the 21st Century," a book by David L. Edwards about the Church of England and its international branches, including America's Episcopal Church.  I have a copy of  this book that I keep near the front door.  If the Mormans show up telling me about Jesus's evangelical private jet trips to North America during his ministry, or a frumpy woman wants to leave "Awake!" and "The Watchtower" with me, I respond, "I'll take that and read it!  And I have something for YOU!"  And I waggle "What Anglicans Believe" and try to force it into their hands.\n\nThey invariably retreat like I'd sprinkled holy water on a vampire.  It's quite humorous.  I haven't had to give up my paperback about Anglicans yet!
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Gods are spawned as a product of their worshippers' collective imaginations and minds. If you believe in a god, he is, if noone does, a god isn't.\nThe true power lies with the people, who can bend reality if they believe in themselves and  realise this possibility. As they can't accept the fact of the power of the human mind, they invent gods to account for the miracles they cause themselves
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Nobody can really know how to tell if God exists. It's all a matter of faith. That's what most religions are based on: faith in (a) supreme being(s). The Bible isn't much PROOF, but it does help to strengthen the bonds between God and His people. \n\nAnd no, the Bible is not straight from God. He may have spoken to his people, but he spoke through prophets (special messengers). Many (real) historical figures and prophets have written down their experiences with God in the Bible. Remember, the Bible was written hundreds (perhaps thousands) of years after these evens were said to have occured. Many of the stories in the Bible began as that--stories told from person to person through the oral tradition. \n\nAs far as proof goes, many of the historical facts (such as the dates of battles and kings of nearby kingdoms) have been found true. Names of Assyrian kings have been preserved. Do you remember reading about King Xerxes or the great Phoenician State of Tyre? These things have been proven to have existed at some point, only reinforcing the fact that there IS truth in the Bible. Whether or not you want to believe everything in it literally is up to you.
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The process by which "Gods" are created is based entirely on conceit.\n\nHumans would never follow a God that did not conform to their own image of what a God should be. Gods are created by humans. humans are not created by Gods.
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Love the question.\n\nGot me thinking and this is what I've come up with:\n\nBecause it cannot be proved without a doubt that God actually exists (if it could be, it would probably be illegal to not be a Christian), to say "God speaks to me" is the equivalent of "I saw a real life dragon yesterday! It lives in my cupboard!"\n\nWhile both statements COULD be true, the essential fact of the matter is that if these kind of people are running around town screaming that God is speaking to them, they WILL cause mass panic and hysteria in their community.\n\nIn general, they are locked up in loony bins to be safe.\n\nSecond, Jealousy. "Why would God speak to that nutjob? I'm a better person than him-he MUST be crazy."\n\nThird, punishment for such claims used to be jail for being a heretic. I think a padded room is much better.