If God didn't create the universe, where did it come from?

Rhett wrote:

And you can't just say that it has always been there.
Where did it come from?
God created it.

Rhett wrote:

And you can't just say that it has always been there.
Where did it come from?
God created it.

ImAnEvilCarrot wrote:

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Why not?
Who are we to say that what our scientists call "the edge of the universe" is anywhere near the edge at all? What we see of the universe is still expanding, true. But just imagine that the earth represents the universe (so maybe it isn't spherical, it might be just a blob, but size wise, ya know?)
The clusters of hundreds of galaxies that we see may be the same as mere city blocks. What we call "the edge of the universe" may be no more than the cosmic equivalent of the city limits of Gary, Indiana. The true universe may be a massive ball of energized matter, suspended in the center of a void of mind boggling size. Our "universe" may be a mere flare of energy from that ball, jetted into the void for untold billions of years, only destined to finally fall back in, like a solar flare finally falls back into the sun. Again, and again, and again, and again.....