Did God occupy any space before creation?

Yes. they do take up space on a hard drive and disc, otherwise a hard drive and disc would hold unlimited data.

All time is not contained in "the beginning": the beginning is not a synonym for time.

And all space is not contained in "the heavens and the earth": the heavens and the earth is not a synonym for space..

Read what Gen. 1:1 actually does say. Not what you wish it said.

"beginning" is nothing other than a reference to time.

"the heavens and the earth" is nothing other than a reference to space.

you may not want Genesis 1:1 to be speaking about the origin of space and time, but it is. they are not God - they are created things.

you are of course free to try what you want to try, but God cannot be measured with a cubit rod.

The beginning of my life is not the beginning of all time. The beginning of democracy is not the beginning of all time, An outhor writing the beginning line of a novel is not the beginning of all time. All this beginnings occur in a greater time-line.

Genesis 1:1 tells us about the beginning of our cosmos, and that our cosmos had a beginning is no more proof that all time began with the beginning of the cosmos. For you to think Gen. 1:1 is declaring that all time began when our cosmos began is an illogical inference from the text.

Likewise if I create a child's toy that takes up space , I did not create the space in which the toy now sits. We are not creating more space, but are filling up existing space.. There is no reason to suppose God had to make space before making things.,

Psalm 139:7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
8If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, [1] you are there.
9If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
11If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"
12even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.

If one ascends to heaven, God is there. If one descends into hades, God is there. If one goes inside any atom, God is there. If one goes into the space between atomic particles, God is there. If one goes into the vacuum of space between space dust particles, God is there. If one goes into any of the ten dimensions, God is there. If one goes beyond the limits of our space-time continuum, God is there.
God is Spirit and his Spirit is obviously contiguous with every point in our space-time continuum or cosmos. It seems to be quite irrational for "bible-believing" posters here to argue that "God has no size", when scripture claims He is present at every point within every dimension within a cosmos that has immense size, and He is also not limited even to the immense size of this cosmos.

To argue that "infinitely big" is not one possible4 description of a size that is larger than this cosmos, seems also irrational.

Can we not agree that God is omnipresent and therefore must be bigger than our time-space cosmos?

Having proven God's "larger than the universe" size to be logically necessary, we can then ask the question, " If God NOW fills our time-space cosmos and beyond, there are two possibilities for the case before our time-space continuum began:
1. God filled infinite space before creation and created the cosmos within the space His spirit already occupied.
2. God occupied no space and therefore had no size before creating this universe, and God developed/put on size when our universe was made. in order to be omnipresent within and beyond its boundaries.

Which is the more reasonable and biblically compatible answer?

This is how big God is and how He wants to be known by us...



A Roman centurion knew that Jesus did not have to go to his house to heal his sick servant.
That all Jesus had to do was give a command to heal his servant without Jesus being there.

That is how big God is, all at once...

Yes, He is bigger than we can even imagine. I feel sorry for folks who have a small or limited God.

Not only bigger than we can imagine....
He makes Himself right down to our own size as well, so we can see Him in a manner that we will readily be able to relate to!

Since God is spirit, not flesh and bones, he doesn't have "size." But he is everywhere.

Yet angels are body and spirit.
There spirit is only in one place.
To God "spirit" can take on a form invisible to our eye.

To God? His "spirit essence" has substance unique to itself.

God does not expect us to quickly accept the concept, but to faith rest it as God works in the knowledge needed for our comfort.

grace and peace.....

Define space, and explain why it cannot be God.

define time and explain why it cannot be God.

Which scriptures say God created time and space?

Everywhere has size. To say God has no size but he is everywhere is a logical contradiction. Things cannot be A and not A at the same time and in the same way.

It boggles your mind. Doesn't it?

Trying to limit the unlimited presence of God is an attempt to remain sane because you personally can not picture it.

Accepting something about God by faith does not mean we can explain it... We just accept it, and our faith pleases God. Hebrews 11:6

Nor, could Peter explain why he was able (for a short time) to walk on water...... But, Peter did so by faith. Matthew 14:28-32

Without faith men will cast down God's Word.

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Time and eternity are pretty much summed up in the following: 2Co 4:18 while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Time is a measure of the things we see, which are temporal. All that is hoped for is eternal. Tha latter may only be understood by any who possess faith.

All that we see is created by our Father, faith.

All that is seen is created.

All that we see will pass away with a loud noise.

No man has seen God and lived. We see from the world other planets and stars, cannot be God but is space.

This entire line of questioning seems quite silly to any with faith.

All of this information is in the Book.

God is Spirit, He is the creator of Space and occupies part or all of it at will.

It boggles the mind unnecessarily, since God does not say about Himself that He has no size. So, what is the virtue in believing something about God that God Himself does not disclose about Himself, but which contradicts what God has disclosed about Himself?

Where does scripture say God created space ? I don't see that anywhere. I do see that He created things that occupy space.

Genesis should read, “In A beginning.” There are several beginnings in Scripture, but the one that begins the book of John is closer to THE beginning. However, since He is described as having NO beginning or end, it still leaves room for speculation, and as curious creatures, we love to speculate.

I don';t see how that is relevant to my question.

PaulThomson said:
Where does scripture say God created space ? I don't see that anywhere. I do see that He created things that occupy space.
I am curious. can you give a definition of "space" itself that does not fit the Biblical description of God?

That is correct. But that does not answer my question.

PaulThomson said:
Where does scripture say God created space ? I don't see that anywhere. I do see that He created things that occupy space.