What did God do before the creation of the earth?

[lucaspa]

What is Manichean heresy? And how do you know what I am saying is not true? Because I assure you it is.

Manichean heresy is that the physical universe is evil.

How can you possibly assure me that what you say is true? You haven't offered any evidence and the statments you have made are contradicted by Christian revelation.

Btw - As for God being eternal

Revelation 10:6

"And the angel whom I saw standing on sea and land lifted up his right hand to heaven and swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it ..."

This does not say that God is eternal, but that God is immortal. Those are two different concepts.

 

[daydreamergurl15]

God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit was playing monopoly....we all know how long that game is.

I seriously don't know what He was doing before he created us but I can tell he wasn't as busy as he is now.

 

[lucaspa]

I seriously don't know what He was doing before he created us but I can tell he wasn't as busy as he is now.

How can you tell? Since we don't know what He was doing there is no way to judge how busy He was.

 

[clinzey]

This does not say that God is eternal, but that God is immortal.

What?!? God is an immortal? No wonder he has such a big thing for holy ground. I wonder if he knows the McCleods. But never forget - in the end there can be only one.

 

[lucaspa]

What?!? God is an immortal? No wonder he has such a big thing for holy ground. I wonder if he knows the McCleods. But never forget - in the end there can be only one.

But I said "God is immortal", not "God is an immortal." Should parse your sentences better, but then, rhetoric and parsing sentences seems a lost art. Similar to the lost ark. But that's another movie.

 

[clinzey]

But I said "God is immortal", not "God is an immortal." Should parse your sentences better, but then, rhetoric and parsing sentences seems a lost art. Similar to the lost ark. But that's another movie.

I know how to parse my sentences, thank you. In order to use the reference to the movie I had to include the indefinite article, so I decided to make that sacrifice for the sake of the joke.

 

[lucaspa]

I know how to parse my sentences, thank you. In order to use the reference to the movie I had to include the indefinite article, so I decided to make that sacrifice for the sake of the joke.

So you decided to sacrifice accuracy for the sake of a joke. Fair trade.

 

[daydreamergurl15]

How can you tell? Since we don't know what He was doing there is no way to judge how busy He was.

I was being sarcastic, I didn't mean it as fact. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

 

[Warrior Poet]

luca do you ever smile???

Warrior Poet

 

[Mo_HH_ljc]

How can you smile in this forum?

 

[lucaspa]

luca do you ever smile???

Warrior Poet

Yes. I did when I said it was a fair trade to sacrifice accuracy for a joke. It's also true. That's what we do with jokes.

 

[clinzey]

Yes. I did when I said it was a fair trade to sacrifice accuracy for a joke. It's also true. That's what we do with jokes.

Right on. Without the tweak of the truth, there is no humor in jokes.

 

[Rabidone]

What did God do before the creation of the earth?

Probably making countless billions of other creations to worship Him. Why stop at one universe? Why settle for the billions of worshipers on earth, when He could have a billion sets of billions of worshipers?

 

[Mo_HH_ljc]

He did not just create us so we can worship him.

 

[Mo_HH_ljc]

Well depends on the meaning of worshipping (there are lots of ways...)

 

[bgoddenia]

Hi

Well I came to this question, because in the last few days I thought of the fact, that God has is and has no beginning or end.
So, what did he do before the creation of the earth? And what will he do after the world, if it ever comes to an end?
Mo

This is mysterious, only he knows, when time come hopefully it will be revealed to us!!

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[Patt Myle]

I dont try to think about what God did before creation, I like to imagine his power when he separated the red sea, or the earthquake that will happen in the end days i try to imagine this stuff.

 

[Dust and Ashes]

It seems that if God is God and He created time and space, then He is beyond time and space and so not bound by it. Wouldn't it stand to reason that there then was no "before creation" since time didn't exist until He created it? I mean it's virtually impossible for us to really get our minds around the idea of there being a "time" when there was no time because we are bound by time. hmmm...I think I could get the word time in that sentence a couple more times if I really tried.