If you could ask God just 1 question, what would you ask?

[Beggar for the Spirit]

 

A media interviewer was asking this to random people,
"If you had the chance to ask God any question and get the answer immediately, what would you ask Him?"

 

What question would you ask?

While you meditate and consider this question,
I want to share with you the interview with 1 young man who gave what I consider the best one:

Spoiler

"Can I be honest? I would not ask God a question at all. I would just give him Thanks!"    

 

 

How touching was this young man's answer! 

That answer showed such humility, deep appreciation, and trust in God! 

 

Yet so many people today have questions of doubt or

questions that imply an accusation of something they feel is wrong about God's ways.

But I want to be like this young man and just be so very thankful to our Father Jehovah!   

 

Edited Friday at 05:02 AM by Beggar for the Spirit

[bystander]

How is avoiding the question the best answer? Go figure. 

[Dages]

Now? The date of Armageddon  

In Paradise? What is your fondest memory of me?

[Nelly Kim]

I'll ask him.. How are you holding up Father, how do you cope with all this madness without losing your Joy? 

[LeolaRootStew]

How much longer?

[Thomas Walker]

Why did you make mosquitoes? 

Edited Saturday at 11:55 AM by Thomas Walker

[Thomas Walker]

What's your favorite joke?

[Jim Jam]

Why did the dinosaurs disappear 

[trottigy]

1 hour ago, Jim Jam said:

Why did the dinosaurs disappear 

 

I have often had that at the top of my list too or even what happened to them, but why would be better.

 

 

Edited Saturday at 02:10 PM by trottigy

[Doug]

2 hours ago, Thomas Walker said:

What's your favorite joke?

 

SPOILER ~  

Spoiler

 What's the difference between God and a doctor?

 

Spoiler

 God does not  think that he's a doctor!

 

[cme]

WHEN?

[Dolce vita]

5 hours ago, Thomas Walker said:

Why did you make mosquitoes? 

The Talmud (Sanhedrin 38a) explains:

“[...] so that, if man becomes arrogant, he can be told: Even the mosquito preceded you in Creation.”☺️

Jewish humor

[1MKnight]

What's something specific and actionable that I can start doing right now that will make me and those around me happier for the rest of this system?

[minister159]

Since you have always existed back into infinity, why did you decide to start creating when you did and not sooner? 

[Dolce vita]

20 minutes ago, minister159 said:

Since you have always existed back into infinity, why did you decide to start creating when you did and not sooner? 

On a similar note: when you were all alone and happy, before you created anything, what was the object of your affection,what did you do with all that love inside you? 

[AnnaFromTheNetherlands]

43 minutes ago, minister159 said:

Since you have always existed back into infinity, why did you decide to start creating when you did and not sooner?

I’ve often wondered that too.

[SUNRAY]

I would like to ask Jehovah when he will reveal the correct spelling and pronunciation of his personal name.

[Dages]

5 hours ago, minister159 said:

Since you have always existed back into infinity, why did you decide to start creating when you did and not sooner? 

The typical answer is generally :
As Time only exists if change occurs > since God is supposedly changeless without the world, there are no prior moments of time in which He could have acted earlier.

It's not perfect but still, the question assumes that Time before creation had a definite length or "metric," but this is a metaphysical mistake. Prior to the act of creation, God exists in "unmetricated" or "metaphysical" time. Without physical objects, stars, or uniform laws of nature to function as a clock, there is no fact of the matter as to "how long" God existed before He created. And because there is no measurement of duration in that precreation moment, the question of why He didn't create "sooner" (even 5 minutes) is technically unintelligible.

If you get a bit deeper on this, given the Swinburne Causal Principle (efficient causes must be temporally prior to their effects), then Jehovah actually could not have created the universe any sooner than He did : At the single precreation moment, any effect God causally brings about must occur at a subsequent moment, so once He exercised His power to create, He brought about that second moment of time, which was the earliest possible moment for the universe to exist.

To compare : 
Imagine you are in a room with no clocks, no sun, and nothing moving. You could sit there forever, and even though you are thinking thoughts one after another, you couldn't say if you’d been there for an hour or a billion years because there is nothing to measure time with.
Jehovah was like that before He made the world. He decided to make the universe because He wanted to, and He just picked a "starting point." It wasn't "too late" or "too early" because He hadn't invented clocks yet.

[Tortuga]

On 4/30/2026 at 9:54 PM, Beggar for the Spirit said:

If you had the chance to ask God any question and get the answer immediately, what would you ask Him?"

"What is the most important thing you want me to know or do right now?"

Edited 2 hours ago by Tortuga