It is important to understand the meaning of the statement I AM in understanding who God is and who we are. I AM is a declaration of one’s knowledge of one’s existence (the word I) and of one’s self (the word AM).
If I is the word of one’s awareness of being present (conscious existence), AM is the knowing of who one is, the self. These two words (I and AM) combined forms a statement of one’s identity I AM.
Question: When did you come into being?
God’s answer:
Meaning: I AM is also a phrase to indicate timeless presence. Nothing was until God. I use the word until because even time is a creation of God. This is why He is the beginning and the end.
Question: So, the idea that there was nothing before You is wrong. As time did not exist, there is no such thing as before and after.
Don’t you question how You just came to me - how You just are there? Do You know?
God’s answer:
Question: You did not come from nothing and You did not come from anything ---this concept is simply perplexing. Do those in Heaven understand this?
God's answer: