Originally posted by Shawnna
The first thought about "God" seems to result in an entity that exists outside of us - what if that were not the case at all? What if we are all
"God"?
Oh, I do like what you say.

In order to understand what you refer to as God, it is important to know It/Her/Him/Them.
Each has their own notions on the nature of the ultimate Deity and the impressions will differ. Do you see how I envision the Creator?
No, you don't.
We read holy books, listen to the theologians, mull it over in our minds and eventually either accept that such an entity exists or we turn our backs
on the improbability of such a being (if, indeed it is a being we envision)
Shawnna alludes to a God which is 'all encompassing'. One which is part and parcel of every atom in the universe. Such a God would certainly be
omnipresent and omniscient... of that there is no doubt.
In such a case, God would have been the Primal Atom before it split into the gazillions of particles which make up the universe today, forming the
stars in their galaxies.
Consider also black holes, sucking all that matter into itself. Where does it all go? Is it God pulling creation back?
God existed before the Creation of this universe as the creator of another preceding universe, which was preceded by another, ad infinitum.
And how it all began is what I'd like to know. How it ends, well, eventually we'll all find out, because we too are part of God, as Shawnna
proposed.