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Question Posed – I’ve seen repeatedly in astronomy & space when someone askes about the origin of the unverse, several people will come on & say God created it. When asked: “If God created the universe, the who created God?” The religious people suddenly get upset & deffensive, responding: “You can’t” or “shouldn’t ask that?” WHY? What’s wrong with asking where God comes from? Does that destroy the foundation of religion (faith) to ask where God came from? What is the big threat from this question? That’s what I want to know.
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Because it is perceived as an attract on their “belief system”, it is an autonomic response. One must realize that religious beliefs are deeply rooted in the human psyche, and reinforced with pain or pleasure, (heaven or hell). So it would follow that when a threat to that faith is perceive, the person would become angry, and the fight or flight system would be activated.
People get upset because they can’t answer it. Christianity is such a simplified belief/religion and they haven’t the belief principles or fundamentals that would allow them to explain how a god exists in the first place.
However, in Buddhism, they can totally explain how a god comes to existence.
im not a realigious person but i do believe in god and that he created the universe, im not gonna get all defensive over it and say you shouldt ask that question..but according to my belief and wat it says in the bible which is the word of god, that said in Rev 1:8: “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” Rev 1:17-8: the alpha and omega the almighty
so with that said you can take it as its written or not….
Here is a scientific answer from a Christian. We will find the answers to questions such as you ask about God as human scientific knowledge over time catches up to God’s scientific knowledge to let us do so and it won’t be through any kind of religious interpretation from our religious experts.
I don’t get upset, and I don’t think you “can’t” or “shouldn’t” ask that. But the answer is “turtles all the way down.” What do I mean by that?
Let’s follow your line of questioning:
If God created the universe, then what created God?
What created the creator of God?
What created the creator of the creator of God?
What created the creator of the creator of the creator of God?
What created the creator of the creator of the creator of the creator of God?
et cetera et cetera et cetera ad nauseum.
It has to stop somewhere. If something like God could be “created” He would not be the Creator. HIS creator would be the Creator.
It’s not a “threatening” question.
I have never had anyone react that way to me when i have asked that question. So I don;t know. But the answer I have gotten is, he has always been there, there is no begining, or ending to god.
For your question, religious people may not strictly have an answer.
As far as who created God: God wasn’t created. God is.
because they’re programmed by the church to get hostile when this kind of stuff comes up.
Because it’s too obvious a question that they’ve had to ignore all along.
Because they can’t answer.
And that scares them.
They don’t like to think for themselves.
There is nothing wrong with the question and it is a natural one. I think Miguel G has it – they don’t know.
Not having an answer, perhaps, is a no-no. Thus, the negative reaction.
If we are similar to what it is like at the god level (and we are said to be gods – all of us – children of god – in psalms 82), then it might be a natural assumption to believe that there is a family (or families) of gods out there. Where did they come from? Is there evolution in heaven?
I almost think that those are the real questions that many religious people are afraid of – that to suggest such tears away the mysticism that has been built around the belief in a being that is impossible to accept in human terms.
My thoughts on the matter and yeah, I count myself as Christian. (And I don’t have any answers, either, but the questions don’t offend me.)