Question: Where does God come from?
I've been asked this question many times. Both camps in the creation/evolution debate have similar issues. Creationists would argue that the initial building blocks of the universe, that what sprung the big bang, couldn't have come from nothing; and of course evolutionists would ask where God came from. Both are rooted in the question of how something could come from nothing.
When I was younger this was a subject that bothered me greatly, even leading me to study Acosmism and other philosophies that suggest the universe doesn't actually exist. I did eventually come to terms with the issue though when I realized that question itself was wrong.
In reading Genesis, you'll find the story of God creating everything. He creates the heavens and the earth, night and day, all the stars in the sky and everything on the earth. It tells you every bit of where we came from. Raised from the dust, instilled with the breath of life. It tells you how woman was created from a part of man. It tells you how death came into the world and how the world changed as a result. The entire foundation of our lives is written in this book. But you know what's not? God's.
The problem with the question of where God comes from is that we generally start from the assumption that he was born into this existence. Or we just imagine some omnipotent being floating through the darkness of a blank slate. But it states clearly in the opening chapters of the bible that he created this reality. All time and space for us was created by him. He may be in it, but he is not of it.
If I made a box and filled it with things, I could sit inside the box but I'd still exist in my world. While the analogy is crude, it's to illustrate how God's existence really has nothing to do with this universe.
So where does God come from?
Who's to say? If you think about it, the bible reads like a sequel. We don't know what God's life was before us, because that's where we came into the story. He could be some guy in a lab playing around with a petri dish. he could be a computer programmer making a heck of a game. He could even (and I know this could be considered sacrilege, though I've never felt questioning the nature of God was) be the product of evolution.
That's right, God in his existence may have been the product of evolution. Who can say? Does he have a family? Is there a whole universe of beings like him? No one knows. What we do know is that he created this universe and so has no fixed point within it.
All the other questions, are something I look forward to finding out one day.
