2 Questions

[POI]

1. Why did God create anything at all?
2. What arena/space/other did God dwell within or upon before he first had to create it?

[bjs1]

1. Why did God create anything at all?

God is creative. Asking why God created anything at all is like asking why a painter paints or why a poet writes. Creativity leads to creation.

2. What arena/space/other did God dwell within or upon before he first had to create it?

According to Christianity, God is spirit. He exists, and always has existed, outside of the physical universe. To return to the painter analogy, this universe is the painting. God is the painter, looking at his work of art from outside of the frame.

[1213]

1. Why did God create anything at all?
2. What arena/space/other did God dwell within or upon before he first had to create it?

Apparently He created, because He taught it was good.

And God saw everything that He had made and behold, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning the sixth day.
Gen. 1:31

Paul says in God we exist. So, maybe the whole universe is actually something in God and there is no outside of eternal God.

And He made every nation of men of one blood, to live on all the face of the earth, ordaining fore-appointed seasons and boundaries of their dwelling, to seek the Lord, if perhaps they might feel after Him and might find Him, though indeed He not being far from each one of us. For in Him we live and move and exist, as also some of the poets among you have said, For we are also His offspring.
Acts 17:26-28

The eternal God is [your] dwelling-place, ...
Deut. 33:27

[SiNcE_1985]

1. Why did God create anything at all?

Because he wanted to.

2. What arena/space/other did God dwell within or upon before he first had to create it?

A supernatural realm (heaven).

......

Now, 2 counter questions..

1. Why would an unbeliever in God, concern himself with the motives of a God that he doesn't believe in?

2. Why would an unbeliever in God, concern himself with a dwelling place of a God that he doesn't believe in?

[POI]

Because he wanted to.

Why?

A supernatural realm (heaven).

Did God have to create that realm too, or did it always exist?

Now, 2 counter questions..

K.

1. Why would an unbeliever in God, concern himself with the motives of a God that he doesn't believe in?

I've already told you. Why ask again?

2. Why would an unbeliever in God, concern himself with a dwelling place of a God that he doesn't believe in?

I've already told you. Why ask again?

[POI]

According to Christianity, God is spirit. He exists, and always has existed, outside of the physical universe. To return to the painter analogy, this universe is the painting. God is the painter, looking at his work of art from outside of the frame.

This response only pushes the unanswered question back one step. God still had to 'dwell or exist' somewhere. Where exactly did God dwell or exist before he created it?

[POI]

maybe the whole universe is actually something in God and there is no outside of eternal God.

Isn't this just a re-branded version of pantheism?

[SiNcE_1985]

Because he wanted to.

Why?

Why not?

Did God have to create that realm too, or did it always exist?

I don't know.

I've already told you. Why ask again?

The answer wasn't satisfactory enough.

I've already told you. Why ask again?

Same answer above.

[POI]

The answer wasn't satisfactory enough.

Too Bad. We cannot get everything we ask for in life.

[The Tanager]

[Replying to POI in post #1]

1. I would say that God freely chose to create and chose to create what He did because he felt it was good.

2. This question doesn't make sense. A non-physical being cannot, by definition, dwell within something like physical beings do.