God has no origin, beginning, or creator. In classical monotheistic theology, God is the eternal, uncaused first cause who exists outside of time.
Key Theological Concepts
• No Beginning or Origin: God is unmade and pre-dates all created things. If another being created God, that entity would be the ultimate God, resulting in an endless regress of creators.
• Self-Existence (Aseity): God is self-existent and depends on nothing outside of Himself to exist.
• Beyond Time: Because time is part of the created universe (space, matter, and time), God stands outside of linear time as the "Alpha and Omega".
• The Source of All Things: As stated in the The Gospel Coalition Africa, everything in existence has a beginning that traces back to God, who was already there before all things.
Would you like to explore how different philosophies or biblical passages (such as Exodus 3:14 or Psalm 90:2) explain God's eternal nature?
Exodus 3:14, New International Version, 14 God said to Moses, "I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I am has sent me to you.'"
"I Am that I Am" is a common English translation of the Hebrew phrase אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה, which appears in the Hebrew Bible. The phrase is also translated as "I am who I am", "I am that am", "I will become what I choose to become", "I am what I am", "I will be what I will be", "I create what I create", or "I am the Existing One" ...
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