Where am I from? - Our place in this world

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On the face of it "Where am I from?" is a fairly simple question to answer. Where do you come from? Well, you come from your parents of course! But who made them, and their parents before them?

The plain truth is that we all have to have originated from somewhere, that's common sense and we all agree up to that point, don't we?

Ultimately all human life that exists now, had to be descended from some other form of life that existed before it. But where did it all start? It's the story of the chicken and egg and it can make your head hurt!

Egg with chick legs hatched out of the bottom

Many of the world's largest religions argue that a greater 'Being' (who loves us without limit) has deliberately created us, in his own image and likeness, and given us life. That 'Being' goes by many different names and what you believe probably determines the name you'll comfortably use - 'God, Creator, Great Spirit, Universal Energy, Father, Higher Being'.

Whatever differences there may be between the different faiths, most 'Believers' agree we were created by something 'larger' than the sum of who we are as humans, and that the 'Creator Being' exists in the spiritual rather than the physical dimension.

How can God have made everything? If he did make everything, who made God then?

What if God didn't need to be created, but always was? Now, there's a thought!!

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Where am I from?:
Life4seekers response

Your guide for this section is James, he asked the same questions. He is single, 36, and was born in Birkenhead Merseyside. Click here to read his story.

Where do we all come from? How did it all start? Here are some points of view:

"It's not worth pursuing. No-one will ever truly know the answer of how the first living thing was created. They won't be able to prove it, will they?"

"Whether we accept the existence of what created us or not – he, she, it, still existed!"

"I think God is a man-made invention merely to explain things that can't ever be explained. Humans need answers and 'God' is a convenient 'catch–all'."

"I believe God lives outside our understanding of how life exists so it has become a matter of faith for me. I feel that the reason many people deny God's existence is because they can't see beyond their limited human plane of existence."

Some would say men and women were descended from apes, others from the famous couple Adam and Eve, others that we have evolved from primitive micro-organisms, meanwhile some argue we trace our true origins in outer space.


	"Set God apart from mortal men, and deem not that he, like them, is fashioned out of flesh". Aeschylus, Pan Book of Religious Quotations, pg. 205.

Cartoon of a man in a space ship, saying 'I believe what I know, but do I know what I believe?'

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