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What was God doing before the divine creation?

God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt. There is no God but this God.

The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

God is a being who is himself the cause of his own existence. His prerogative is to perceive before there was anything to be perceived. He is the creator of the universe; He operated upon nothing and turned it into something.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.