Unthinking Majority wrote:My personal opinion is that we only have a very limited understanding of space-time based on the physics of our universe. Beyond our universe space-time could be totally different, and in fact could be cyclical, in an infinite loop.
Maybe ultimately nothing is created or destroyed, things just loop in waves and cycles like the seasons or the tides.
Something would have to be created from nothing whatever you believe. Whether that is God or the Primordial Soup. And the same would be true if we were in an eternal loop for the creation of matter in any regards. Buy to fully understand matter is to understand energy (E=MC2) and the speed of light squared. If the laws of force are eternal - with or without the existence of matter, and the expansion of the 'fabric' of the universe is linked to the speed of light somehow (I think it is) and that is linked to time, then at least the ingredients of matter can exist from nothing even if understanding the dynamics of how it all unites for creation is not. This is something I have questioned myself for some time. What of the equation of M=E/C2? And is this important in understanding everything? Perhaps a question for another forum.
Nonetheless I too believe time is eternal. Not a loop per se but perhaps your experience of it may be described as a loop. That is to say all time exists simultaneously but you exist at one point of it and the mechanics of consciousness gives you the appearance of a linear motion of time and when you die you would return to the beginning again because of it. Mulitiuniverses might allow free choice as well. And being speed can manipulate our experience of time, means that there is merit in this notion whatever you believe. How that links to God, well it doesn't. But if God exists at all, I do believe you need to look beyond moral objectivity and consider it a force of intelligence. And if God was a force and the laws of forces are eternal, then God wouldn't need to be created and that would answer this threads title.