Where did God come from? What are the origins of God?
jb eyk inrMjn inrMkwr pRB sBu ikCu Awpih krqw ]3] (216-2)
jab ayk niranjan nirankaar parabh sabh kichh aapeh kartaa. ||3||
When the Immaculate and Formless Lord God was all alone, He did everything by Himself. ||3||
Apny krqb Awpy jwnY ijin iehu rcnu rcwieAw ] (216-2)
apnay kartab aapay jaanai jin ih rachan rachaa-i-aa.
He alone knows His actions; He created this creation.
When God in the beginning was in his previous formless state, everything was dark and formless and void of life, apart from the Eternal God as one Entity. As we live in a physical universe, that is set by parameters and rules, the external universe(outside ours), is totally different. As there are a few verses that explain by Gods command and will, creations and life come into being through his eternal word. If you wish for me to add a verse for this then please request and I will have to have a dig through the SGGS. If you already know this, then for times sake I am moving on. The only way I can try and understand the spiritual/exterior realm(s) is as a magical world. A world that is not bound by rigid rules and formulas in the physical sense.
Now if anything was before God, then that would not make God first. If God had to have a reason to come into being, then that would make God created, and hence would not be God. As God is first and divine, we have to take things by faith, just as we are taught in many other ways to take faith in things we can not see, like taking faith in the actual existence of God today in a form, a form that is 'visually' 'closest' to that of a human exterior according to certain verses, I should be able to add a verse for this below:
iqsu iniv iniv lwgau pweI jIau ]2] (216-17)
tis niv niv laaga-o paa-ee jee-o. ||2||
Bowing low, I fall at the Feet of the Lord.
supRsMn Bey kysvw sy jn hir gux gwih ]4] (203-10)
suparsan bha-ay kaysvaa say jan har gun gaahi. ||4||
Those humble beings, with whom the beautifully-haired Lord is thoroughly pleased, sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.
God has come from no where. He was ther ab initio; he has been there through all the ages; he is there now and will be there as it is. Aad(i) sach(u), jugad(i) sach(u), hai bhi sach(u), hosi bhi sach(u). He is Saibhang (self created).
I do not believe he was self created, any insight sir?