Genesis 1:1
“In the beginning, God….”
When the non-Christian asks, “Where did God come from?” they are thinking of the wrong god. There is a god of one’s imagination, and there is the God of revelation. The God of revelation is eternal. He is without beginning, and without end. He is the Alpha and the Omega. He is from everlasting to everlasting.
The God of the Bible is not affected by Time, Space, or Matter, because He is the creator of all three and is transcendent to His creation. That God became flesh, dwelt among us for a short period of time in no way diminishes divinity, and the attributes of the Sovereign.
If God were to be affected by Time, Space, and Matter in the sense of needing these things to justify His existence, then He is not God. That which is created cannot have created itself. That is a simple point of logic. Out of nothing, nothing comes.
Time, Space, and Matter, is a continuum. All would have to come into existence at the same time. If there were Matter but no Space, where would it be put? If there were Matter and Space but no Time, when would it be put?
Time, Space, and Matter, cannot exist independently. They must have come into existence simultaneously. The Bible explains how this happened in just a few words in Genesis 1:1. “In the beginning [Time] God created the heaven [Space] and the earth [Matter].”
God spoke, and the universe sprang into existence by omnipotent power. Here is a Trinity. But there is a Trinity within the Trinity.
A Trinity within a Trinity
Time, consists of Length, Width, and Height.
Space, is either left or right, forward, or backward, or up or down.
Matter, is solid, liquid, gas.
The God who created Time, Space, and Matter, is not within these elements any more than the creator of a computer is inside the product.
God is distinct from His creation. God is above and beyond all the finite things He has made, and while God may choose to interact with and even fellowship with His creation, the things God brought into existence do not share in His divine essence or Being.
The creation account in Genesis 1:1-2:24 is clearly a description of God creating, forming, and fashioning a universe entirely distinct from Himself. God does not “become,” “emanate,” or otherwise extend His own being into any of the things formed. God creates. He commands, and things come into being” (Luke Wayne, CARM).
Of course, it is possible that a spiritual body can influence a physical body, for we all experience love, hate, fear, joy, happiness, sorrow, hatred, and pride. Evolution cannot explain where emotions come from, apart from God.
Nor can evolution explain why a non-believer’s own thoughts have any validity if the mind is merely a collection of every changing evolutionary impulse trying to survive. There is no right, there is no wrong, there is only the moment.
There is no hope for the future. There is no sense of ultimate justice or judgment to right the wrongs of life, if indeed there is evil in the world. In the evolutionary model, one’s own thought processes cannot be trusted. What is merely a random code of ethics is just for the moment but has no transitional value.
While the ungodly like to postulate a universe without God, without a Lawgiver, in all honesty they do not want to live in a world without purpose, meaning, definition, structure, and Law. Liberals are the first to whine about perceived injustices, being a victim, and needing safe spaces to process their feelings.
The question, “Where did God come from?” assumes God is limited and dependent on someone or something greater than Himself to bring Him into existence. When Moses asked for proof that God is God, the Lord simply said, “I AM.” Why? Because an appeal to anything else would limit God and make Him a dependent.
The God of the Bible, the God of Revelation, the God whom Christians worship, is not limited by Time, Space, or Matter. Nor is He the product of random chance of some inexplicable cosmic matter deciding to explode itself into existence with a Big Bang.
To the Liberal skeptic, let it be said to them, “It takes more grace and more faith to believe in an evolutionary imaginary scenario of how Time, Space, and Matter, and the Universe came into existence than it does to believe, ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.’”
