The Universe?
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
The Universe?
One Sunday, at Church, I asked myself
if God really existed and came to my
own personal conclusion: yeah...he
probably does. This led to
me asking myself the same question
that I continually asked my mother
when I was younger: if God created the
universe, who created God? As a
youngster I thought this was a very
clever thing to ask. Me, a mere child,
picking holes in a well established faith.
Of course, the adults were far too
mature to consider this as relevant - it
was much easier to ignore this kind of
question in a quest to maintain their
faith.
My point isn't to do with the ignorance
of adults towards children. It's more to
do with what there was before God. Did
the God just suddenly come to be? In
that case the universe could just have
come into being instead, defeating the
purpose of a higher creative force.
Furthermore, if God or the universe have
not been around FOREVER, what was
there before? Some would suggest
nothing. But not just a space that was
completely empty, I mean a nothing
where not even the empty space
existed - absolute nothingness.
This kind of puzzle is way beyond our
realm of comprehension. We may (for
now?!) have to content ourselves with
the fact that there always has and
always will be SOMETHING.
One Sunday, at Church, I asked myself
if God really existed and came to my
own personal conclusion: yeah...he
probably does. This led to
me asking myself the same question
that I continually asked my mother
when I was younger: if God created the
universe, who created God? As a
youngster I thought this was a very
clever thing to ask. Me, a mere child,
picking holes in a well established faith.
Of course, the adults were far too
mature to consider this as relevant - it
was much easier to ignore this kind of
question in a quest to maintain their
faith.
My point isn't to do with the ignorance
of adults towards children. It's more to
do with what there was before God. Did
the God just suddenly come to be? In
that case the universe could just have
come into being instead, defeating the
purpose of a higher creative force.
Furthermore, if God or the universe have
not been around FOREVER, what was
there before? Some would suggest
nothing. But not just a space that was
completely empty, I mean a nothing
where not even the empty space
existed - absolute nothingness.
This kind of puzzle is way beyond our
realm of comprehension. We may (for
now?!) have to content ourselves with
the fact that there always has and
always will be SOMETHING.
