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If there exist a God/superior being who created this being. When I ask this question I get " God created himself". How is this logical?-Ros

If there exist a God/superior being who created this being. When I ask this question I get " God created himself". How is this logical?-Ros

:I'm sure Philip will get involved here—and believe you me, he is far more qualified to answer this question—but I'm going to take a stab at it.  The problem that most can't get past is the notion that God "is, was, and ever shall be," the alpha and omega, so on and so forth.  God supersedes time; he in fact ''created'' time according to the Judeo-Christian theology.  There was no past before God/YHWH.  Nothing needed to come before him, because he is the source of all things, including time itself.  It gets complicated there because it's hard to imagine a universe without time; though technically, there wasn't a universe at all until he created it (once again, according to Judeo-Christian theology or at least my best knowledge of it).  I'm going to let Philip chime in here and correct any mistakes I've made, and maybe give you a bit more concise explanation as I'm sure he—or one of the many others here—have come across this question far more often than I have.  [[User:JLauttamus|Jeffrey W. Lauttamus]][[User_talk:JLauttamus|_Discussion]] 12:00, 27 September 2008 (EDT)

:I'm sure Philip will get involved here—and believe you me, he is far more qualified to answer this question—but I'm going to take a stab at it.  The problem that most can't get past is the notion that God "is, was, and ever shall be," the alpha and omega, so on and so forth.  God supersedes time; he in fact ''created'' time according to the Judeo-Christian theology.  There was no past before God/YHWH.  Nothing needed to come before him, because he is the source of all things, including time itself.  It gets complicated there because it's hard to imagine a universe without time; though technically, there wasn't a universe at all until he created it (once again, according to Judeo-Christian theology or at least my best knowledge of it).  I'm going to let Philip chime in here and correct any mistakes I've made, and maybe give you a bit more concise explanation as I'm sure he—or one of the many others here—have come across this question far more often than I have.  [[User:JLauttamus|Jeffrey W. Lauttamus]][[User_talk:JLauttamus|_Discussion]] 12:00, 27 September 2008 (EDT)