What Existed Before I Or You Did?

I've been having discussions with theists, athiests, and agnostics and every mix of the three. I noticed that the question of existence and non existence seems to elude all of them.

Before I or you were came to exist, did nothing exist before us? Was there anything in existence prior to our arrival into this world? I have learned from experience and study that people do not get their questions answered because they attempt to give the right answers to their own questions instead of asking the right questions about the answers given. Afterall didn't Jesus say: "Ask and ye shall receive?..."? So why are we not asking more questions to receive an answer? The two questions are one in the same as I can attest from my own birth that my parents, and their family and friends, etc. we're here before I came into existence; and, I have my two childrens births as evidence that I and my wife existed before they came into this world. We may conclude then that God existed before any of us came into existence and, will continue to exist after our existence in this temporal world is over. Why do I make such a bold claim? For all of the parties mentioned above please make no mistake that we are but youths in this world as we knew of nothing before coming into it. Why should man become prideful in thinking he can understand God and the heavens and the earth when we can barely stand the heat and light of the sun? We have not penetrated the center or bottom of the earth, sea, or the heavens let alone explore either long enough without suffering from pressure from high and low altitudes. We are fragile and pitiful creatures indeed.

The beginning is the end; and, the end is the beginning: this means that if we never existed before then we will cease to exist after...right? That depends on one's perspective of existence and non existence. This is answered by scripture yet again:

"I am the God of Abraham, I am the God of Isaac, I am the God of Jacob."
-Exodus 3:6

We see that God is the God of the living and not the dead. Therefore existence in scripture is to be living with God; and non existence is to be dead apart from God. Let's break this down:

(Beginning = End) Non existent > (End = Beginning) Existent

We see that there is no contradiction as we did not exist had not God thought, spoken, and created us into existence: therefore to remain living (existent) with God we must do as He says; but, to remain dead (non existent) with God we must not do what He says. Easy enough decision right? Wrong! For when we observe the first verse in the Bible:

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
-Genesis 1:1

The beginning means that time is created and that before time only eternity existed: therefore God is eternal whose dwelling is in eternity. If eternity existed before the beginning of time then eternity will exist after time has ended:

"And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets."
-Revelation 10:6-7

Let our hearts tremble and our minds not be so foolish to make a hasty decision to not obey what God says: for water and fire are set before us: those who obey God and confirm His existence will have their words obeyed by Him and their existence confirmed; but, those who do not obey Him and deny His existence will have their words disobeyed by Him and their existence denied by the same God of Heaven and earth. Or do the Scriptures speak in vain?

"Do unto others as ye would have them do unto you."

Athiests stop denying God; agnostics stop doubting God; and theists stop letting these two cause you to be double minded.

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