{"id":44630,"date":"2015-02-10T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=44630"},"modified":"2022-03-12T16:11:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T22:11:24","slug":"how-did-god-create-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/how-did-god-create-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"How did God create Himself?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>I just always wondered, how God created Himself?<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>God didn&#8217;t create Himself. Eternal means He always existed. &#8220;<em>Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God<\/em>&#8221; (Psalms 90:2).<\/p>\n<p>Even unbelievers understand that something has to always exist. In evolution, that something is matter. In that theory, the universe started with a bang from a super-condensed particle. Of course, the flaw is that they can&#8217;t explain how non-thinking random events created an ordered universe.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, for Christians to acknowledge that there is something that always existed is not an impossible stretch. In fact, it is more logical because we see an intelligent being bringing order to the universe He created, which matches the facts better.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: I just always wondered, how God created Himself? Answer: God didn&#8217;t create Himself. Eternal means He always existed. &#8220;Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God&#8221; (Psalms 90:2). Even unbelievers understand that something has to always exist. In&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[37,90],"class_list":["post-44630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-apologetics","tag-god"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29710,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/did-god-create-darkness-or-did-it-always-exist\/","url_meta":{"origin":44630,"position":0},"title":"Did God create darkness or did it always exist?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"October 24, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Genesis 1 speaks of darkness existing over the waters before creation. Was darkness something made or has it always existed? Did God create the initial darkness before He separated the initial light from darkness? I'm asking because a friend asked me this question. Also was God not light? 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This tells us clearly that the Creator is God. Scientists recognize five components,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":46215,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/did-god-create-the-matter-we-see\/","url_meta":{"origin":44630,"position":3},"title":"Did God create the matter we see?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"October 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Hebrews 11:3 says \"Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.\" Is this verse an argument that God did not create the matter we see but rather formed it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Answer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16387,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/where-was-god-before-he-created-the-heavens-and-the-earth\/","url_meta":{"origin":44630,"position":4},"title":"Where was God before He created the heavens and the earth?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"September 15, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Where was God before He created the heavens and the earth? 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