This is a very deep & complex question asked by people for thousands of years. After all, if the big bang is how it all began, then where did the matter and energy come from that started the big bang? How can something exist that wasn’t created? What did exist before the universe? Obviously, science will never be able to answer that question. However, the Bible gives some insight into creation.
The Bible states in the very first chapter of Genesis, that “In the beginning, God created the heavens & the earth. The earth was without form & void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.”
This is an interesting account of how the known universe & our very own planet came into existence. Here we have God, and it is God that created everything. Science today shows us that most evidence points to the universe having a beginning. It was created & has expanded & continues to expand today. Also, theories & mathematical forumlas have shown that time, matter, and energy all have a beginning, and at some point will also have an end.
During this creation time, God creates the time, matter, and energy that we all know. We are told that the earth was void, and without any form. Also, there was no light, because God’s first command during this explanation of creation is “Let there be light.”
So before the universe was created, there was God. This creation event describes how God created the universe and everything in it. It does not talk about when the creation of angels took place (although in the book of Job, it describes the angels praising God during creation-so we can likely assume that angels were created before the universe). Instead, this creation story leaves out some of those details and focuses on the details of the universe’s creation, as well as mankind & everything else.
So according to the Bible, before the universe was created, there were other potentially created things (such as angels). God created the universe & everything in it. Without God, there would be no universe.
Before the universe existed, God (and possibly angels & other things) existed as well. The Bible does not specify how, when, and what else was created. But we know that the Bible states God is ever-existing. He is the first & last, the beginning & the end, as well as the only UNCREATED thing in the universe.
In other words, God is the only thing that was never created, and God is the only THING that has ever created anything. Therefore the only “thing” that existed before anything else (the universe or angels) was & is GOD.
So this begs an interesting question? What is God made of? What created God?
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This post was written by Revelation on June 23, 2008
