Where did God Come From?
This is a question that puzzled me for a long time. If God is the source of all things, then who created God? If God exists, then he must have come from somewhere. The notion that God simply existed from the beginning has never made much sense to me. As soon as you have something in existence, you can always ask: Where did it come from? Nothing just appears out of thin air. But then God does not exist. Not as we humans define existence anyway.
As humans we tend to project our reality onto God. That’s why you have religion claiming that God is a male, he is a physical entity, he lives in heaven, he judges, etc. These are all human qualities. But if God is responsible for creating the entire universe, then how much sense does it make to view him in human terms? Our reality is based on space and time, and therefor we think in those terms. But if God created space and time, then how much sense does it make to think that he exists in space and time?
If God created space and time, then he must exist outside of it. The question ‘Where did God Come From?’ is thus the wrong question. God did not come from anywhere because he is nowhere in particular and everywhere at the same time. As far as time goes, God never ‘began’ because time is an illusion. There is only eternity. We humans have created time through our own perception in order to make events possible.
We have divided eternity into seconds, minutes, hours, days, months and years. Time is nothing but quantified eternity. In reality there is only one eternal now. I know this could be hard to understand, but at least that gives us a better explanation than religion who have no explanation, or none that makes sense for any open-minded individual anyway. This isn’t something completely new anyway.
We have all experienced time slowing down or speeding up, and science has long ago proven that time is not an absolute phenomenon. The sages and saints of the past could not find God in space and time so they took their search into the timeless through meditation. In mediation their minds became so quiet that they experienced pure being in the here and now. In doing this they found God and experienced him directly.
God didn’t come from anywhere and he isn’t going anywhere. He is here in the now, but we are all so distracted by our conditioning and our minds that we hardly ever experience him directly. God can be experienced directly at any time, but we first have to quiet our minds and get back into the present, which can be done through spiritual practice like meditation. Finally it becomes possible to ‘know’ God. And when God it ‘known’, anything becomes possible…
Hy again!
I am surprised, but not very much, that you can say that you are spiritual but not religious. I am “specialized” in finding odd correlations but for this kind of statement I couldn’t find, yet, the “correct” one. Still I am thinking that saying that you are spiritual but not religious is like you say you like to play tennis but using a basketball ball. Or even better with a ball of American Football and if the court is made by a new revolutionary material like, for example, … water then the odd correlation is ready to be delivered.
Can you please explain a little bit another, rather odd, correlation that is made by you this time? Why tennis and spirituality?
Thank you.
Dragos
Hi Dragos. I see your point, but its definitely possible to be spiritual without being religious. Religion has a lot of dogma in it. Spirituality is basically religion stripped of that dogma, but it is also more than that. For me spirituality could mean something different then for you of course. But in the end spirituality makes no judgments. Religion basically takes a stance and believes their way is the only way. For me pure spirituality embraces all points of view. It doesnt claim that there is only one way to find God. And it doesnt try to explain God in human terms. For me religion is a stage in human evolution, one that i have long ago passed.
As for tennis and spirituality, i can see why you find that odd as well. But in the end spirituality includes all things, meaning tennis as well.
I understand perfectly your point. This doesn’t mean that I agree with this but I respect your point of view.
I knew from the beginning, without seeing your second blog about spirituality, that you are different than the majority of Federer’s fans. Basically you are almost like me trying with all your hart to limit the pain an to find somehow a way to be prepared for what it will come in Rogers’ carrier.
I am rather old, over 40, and I started to feel the pain in the end of 2007 beginning of 2008 and I started to really support him in that bad period when everybody (I am talking about those that are not fan’s) thought that he is finished. For me it was probably like a symbol of the fact that being rather old in a certain domain doesn’t necessarily meaning you are finished. It was the projection of my interior feelings on him and on his path. In the end is not about Roger is about me. That is maybe why I am felling so lost when he is loosing. Is not normal to feel like this when you are a mature man having 40 years of life experience, which is more than our “idol” has.
As a plus for considering this pain not normal is the fact that I am religious. The key point in my religion is to fell free even if you obey and accept the dogmas. I am Eastern Christian – Orthodox.
I was wondering which is your, let’s say, “basic” religion. When I am saying basic I mean the religion of your ancestors. I would say that you have Asian roots but guessing is not my strong point.
If you consider that we have something to talk about, some common points then send me an e-mail, after all you have my e-mail address.
Have you ever thought that this “their way is the only way” is a sign of respect for the spiritual capacity of your ancestors (not necessarily blood connected) and not a sign of superiority towards other ways?
Sent you and email.