Why did God wait 500 million years after creation to send Jesus?

Question

Why was there such a wait ?Why not send him directly after creation?
What happened to all those poor souls who knew nothing of salvation?
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Answer 1

So your are a chemist. That does not make you wise. "If" you believe the Bible-Jesus was present at creation, and there was no 500my. Get informed on the subject. Scientist (not ministers)debate this every day. You are asking questions base on speculation-that's how we get into error. Look at modeling on evolution and creation, observe the conclusions that the scientists come to. You will see that assume too much.

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Answer 2

The wait was probably so that humans would be able to comprehend the message. If one accepts that humans evolved from lower life forms, perhaps it was only recently - say 6,000 or so years ago, that humans were developed enough to listen to an omniscient God. Jesus and His message followed (in geological time) soon thereafter, although it is up for debate whether it was to "fix" the message previously given or to "perfect" it, or to add something altogether, depending on who you talk to.

The poor souls who knew nothing of salvation were probably dealt with justly. They never had knowledge of the Lord, and so were never able to choose Him or reject Him. Of course, if one doesn't accept the idea of a purgatory, a perfection of the Good Work begun on earth (Philippians) after death, then that makes the salvation of even the most righteous ignorant a little bit difficult to explain.

Answer 3

Excuse me while I laugh my horns off at the "he didn't wait that long, all the scientists are wrong, Creation was only 6,000 years ago" answers, but I just can't help it.

I don't believe the Creationism myth, but taking it at face value, I think God was doing the equivalent of what a human does when faced with a cryptic crossword. You put an answer in that you're not entirely sure of, but rather than erase it immediately, you press on and see whether you can make it work. I mean, there's the story that everyone was evil by the time of Noah, so god got out his big eraser and started again from scratch with just the first couple of clues left in. It went wrong again, so he put the word MESSIAH down the centre of the puzzle in big black letters, to see where that got him. And it's got him here. Who knows whether he's about to rub it all out and start again with the dolphins? :o)

Answer 4

Before Jesus came to earth people lived by law. You know the ten commandements and so on. The first commandment is Worship no go but me, if they didn't obey that they faced consequences and for those that did God accepted them as the people that obeyed Him and God's Grace/blessing/love fell upon them.

After Jesus came to earth people are saved by the Lord's Grace. meaning it's not the ten commandments that save us but rather God's Grace. And how does one recieve Grace from God? By accepting that His Son Jesus Christ died for our sins, that Jesus is sinless, reading, following and accepting what has been written in the Bible and simply loving God with all your heart, with all your might, body and soul and not worshiping any idols, acknowledging that Jesus is Lord and accepting Him as your Lord and Saviour and lastly but not least, praying to God. So none of those sould died without knowing salvation.

To answer your second question, God is not like men who do things to impress the others, or just doing things in a rush, He does everything with time. When He started created He had a plan and is working according to His plan.

Asking God the why answers never really bring the true answers from God (most of the time) but rather the Devil is trying to mess with your mind and before you know it you are being disobedient to the Lord. Rather focus on true, pure, love, kindness and those things that are pleasing to the Lord and that can build your soul up in such a way that He'll be pleased with you.

Answer 5

Who said He waitd 500 million years? There is no specific year recorded in the Bible that says that. God has a plan, and He had a plan. As for the people before Jesus' time, those devoted to God went to Abraham's place (I know it starts with Abraham, but the place part might be different), located somewhere near heaven. Think of it as a waitng room. When Jesus died, they all moved into heaven. As for the wait, I don't know why God waited. Like I said before, He had and has a plan for us, everyone on earth. We might not know why, but He does.

Answer 6

I don't know where you get your figures. But the world as we know it is not that old. As for the time span from creation till the coming of Jesus it was only a few days. You are looking at it in man's terms of thinking; however to God a l000 years is a day and a day is a l000 years. God has no time span

Answer 7

he didn't wait 500 million years it was 6 thousand years. yes he waited for them .... all those souls didn't need salvation coz God gave them other choices and means to go to heaven... how many prophets did God send before jesus?? hundreds actually... coz he cared for the people... but we see that from Malakhi (the last prophet god sent b4 jesus) . there was a 400 years gap... in that time all the isrealians were waiting 4 jesus to come.. and in that time the people had an open choice to follow mouses or not so their souls weren't going to hell.

Answer 8

If you ask me, is this kind of calculation always correct? is it like you not sure how much money i have in my pocket and you just come out some best possible answer?...cost i really doubt about that.

Anyway those people that died before heard about the salvation, they all maybe will judge according to their heart or how they live their lives with the believes that they have.

Answer 9

God does not get in a hurry. We are limited by Time, but, He is not. AND, the ones before Jesus looked forward to the Promise of the Messiah and Believed, so, that how they were saved.

Answer 10

Thanks for the Question :)

Well according to Islam God didnt wait all that
God said in the Quraan : Then his Lord chose him, and turned to him with forgiveness, and gave him guidance.
(Allah) said:"Get you down (from the Paradise to the earth), both of you, together, some of you are an enemy to some others. Then if there comes to you guidance from Me, then whoever follows My Guidance shall neither go astray, nor fall into distress and misery.

I think that makes much more sense :)....at least to me