All this answers are very good. Let me add my belief. Before the Big Bang there was nothing, a void. The only thing was a Hummm. Soft but eternal. This was and is "God". It is nether male or female. This Hummm, vibration slowed down enough to form matter. Not all of It slowed down just a small part that created the universe. The universe that contains everthing. We are part of that vibration which makes us part of God. This to me rings with truth. This is what I believe. Thanks. M.Z.

Before God created the big bang, She knew that She was the Absolute. In the Absolute No-thing exists so there was no way for God to experience that which She knew She was. So She created the big bang - duality, relativity and contrast in order that She could experience all that She is, through us, the infinite parts of Her Self - Her children.

That is why Self Love is of primary importance for remembering and in getting closer to God :-)

And as for God's eternalness with no beginning and no end. I put this in with many other paradox's I've found. I believe that one day we may indeed be able to understand the meaning of it once our perspective changes. Namaste.

I think God or eternal conciousness has always existed.

However, this concept is hard for us to grasp as we are human beings who live in this time and space dimensional reality. This reality has also led us to believe that all things have a beginning and an end.

In my opinion, our time and space reality does not apply to the whole universe (and other parallel universes) and as long as we are in these physical bodies, the fact that eternal conciousness has always been there will not be an easy concept to grasp.

I believe that the big bang was a black hole that reached critical mass and came apart. That dark matter is a figment of peoples imagination because they can not understand the fundementals that drive our universe, just like magnatism has a south and north pole or two opposing forces, then why is it hard to believe that gravity may behave in the same manner attracting and repelling simalar material, as for GOD I also beleve that GOD evolved from a shall we say a creature like humans that evolved into a being with the ability to see past, present and future, to be able to interact at all points in time guiding us and leaving us alone to see what we will do. A more accepted word would be "Ascended Being" someone who elvolved to the next step in the evolutionary ladder. We are electrical in nature, bio chemical but electrical just the same. Suppose we can evolve into a being that does need a physical body that needs food to restore its chemicals to continue living, instead becoming pure energy, and if we evolve into pure energy, what would be our boundries then, Heat and cold would not affect us nor would vacumn or pressure. Gravity would not have an affect on pure energy either. maybe the ability to go forward and backwards in time would not be a limitation either. I have given you a possible explanation but you have to decide what fits best with your beliefs.

What is God WAS the BIG BANG?

..and we are all fragments of Him? The Out Breathing.

You used the word fun subject to toss around, so let us make it fun. There is a story on page seven: "The Order" in a book called The Looking Glass What Do You See? I think it may answer some of your questions in a fun way about the Big- Bang, and God etc. You may also find this story very entertaining, and some food for thought. Have fun with your reading, and share your thoughs with us. Happy New Year All!

This is another perspective, from Google search.

"Both" or other answer

•It is possible that God created the universe by way of the Big Bang. There is currently no physical way to prove this to be true or not. There is no doubt that the universe is expanding, and if the "film" was "rewound" to the "beginning" of things, then a "Big Bang" is a most probable logical start. Recall that science is not out to prove God does not exist. It proves what it can, and illuminates other things, like an expanding universe and a possible explanation for how it got to be the way it appears now. • God did not create the universe; the universe was created by means of the big bang and that is final no questions. God does exist no doubt but he did not create the universe, a small ball of plasma kick - started the universe. Just think what the world would be like without gods to worship, it would be chaotic. • Yes and no. the human mind is a powerful thing. And some believe our universe is made up of many dimensions and planes of existence. If you follow the path of The Christian faith, Then God created the universe. Some would say something created God, and something created that, and so on and so on. Or, you could just believe that the Big Bang did it. In this belief, with all of the multiple planes of existence, every thing is true, and at the same time false.

http://www.inwardquest.com/questions/13773/what-is-the-meaning-and-purpose-of-god-and-creation

The major feature of the Big Bang theory is that the universe was once in an extremely hot and dense state that expanded rapidly (a "Big Bang"). This rapid expansion caused the young universe to cool and resulted in its present continuously expanding state. According to recent measurements, scientific evidence, and observations,[2][3] the original state happened around 13.7 billion years ago (see age of the Universe),[4][5] which can be referred to as the time that the Big Bang occurred.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang

lets look from a different angle,
life was waiting to materialize,
it was missing the incipient shock
to let it loose.
the plan was given to the builders