Does God require a creator?.
Good question.
If God answers 'No', how would we disprove that?
If God does not require a creator, then does that logically imply that the universe does not either?
If the universe does not require a creator, then the universe is the beginning and end - infinite.
What that would mean, is that the universe exists as is, with nothing outside itself.
That's not our understanding of the universe.
Something can come out of nothing.
How can that be?
If there is nothing, how can there come something?
God did not come from nothing, but always was. So, there was always somthing - God.
If one assumes that something can't come out of nothing, and this is a reasoning for their belief in God, then don't they have to question where God came from?
If that's their reasoning for God, but God did not come to be. God always was, and is.
There has never been a case where there was nothing... then there was something.
"God exists outside of time"
Time is relative... right? In the original Planet of the Apes (spoiler alert) them astronauts time traveled due to their speed and time's relativity, right? So, if time isn't concrete and static throughout the universe, I guess it's reasonable to assume a deity could be outside of time.
"God exists outside of existence." maybe?
I dunno
God is existence.
I tried to give a simple explaination of this before.
Say you have a circle, and nothing exists outside the circle. The only things that can exist, would be in that circle... Of course, the circle is.
The circle can expand. There are no boundaries. There are no limits to that circle.
However, the circle remains a circle, even if its diameter expands a zillion times.
The circle however, cannot become a square, a triangle... It cannot change its 'nature' It is 'constant'. It remains the same - never changing.
That's my simple way of explaining it.