2006-09-19 09:01:07 · 15 answers · asked by molly 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is a wonderful question, for which I will give two possibilities:
One issue is the human understanding of time and space in which we cannot comprehend the immense spans of eons of times and ranges of astronomical distances within the universe. For us, millenia seem an incomprehensible wait for human contact. As well, we are the inventors of time --God does not count time by our earthly measures. Perhaps what we call millenia is really irrelevant to God, who transcends time.
The second answer I will give is one that comes out of process theology which sees both God and the universe as "becoming"--that is, all of creation is flows outward from a source that itself "becomes" in the process --Hence we see God as an emerging developing cosmic energy that "grows" as creation becomes increasingly more complex. (The word "grows" falls short, but hopefully you get the idea.) Thus, God becomes "ready" for relationship with human beings at some point just prior to their arrival on the scene in the form of the species we know as ourselves, beings capable of relationship --its successes and failures and all that it is capable of being.
2006-09-19 10:54:39 · answer #1 · answered by Ponderingwisdom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, who says He is waiting for millennium for a relationship? He was close to Enoch, close enough that Enoch didn't have to die. He was close to Abraham and Abraham was called the Friend of God. He was close to Elijah and Moses and David and the list goes on, and those were just the Old Testament people. We are invited to pray, not because we are going to sit on Santa Claus' lap and tell what we want, but because we are talking to Him. We are encouraged to read the Bible, because He wrote to us, He speaks to us. Going through a list of exceptional Christians in history you commonly find some place where this person or that started reading the Bible, then the Bible started changing him or her.
Most importantly, God is eternal--He has no time clock or calendar except as is convenient to Him. A millennium doesn't matter, but with what He has invested in the venture, He seems to think we somehow do.
2006-09-19 09:11:56 · answer #2 · answered by Rabbit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is eternal and exists in past, present, and future, and time has no relation to him. So, millenia mean nothing to him, only to us. I guess that means he actually did not wait at all.
2006-09-19 09:07:12 · answer #3 · answered by Steve M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you need to consider the scientific and religious histories of the world separately, since there is no logical way to consider religion and science at the same time.
There are those who believe the Bible is a figurative history of the world - an allegory if you will, and others who take it as fact. You need to decide for yourself what you believe.
2006-09-19 09:45:01 · answer #4 · answered by mikeandrachael2004 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans are God's greatest creation. That is why he created them last, before He rested.
And also there is no time in eternity where God rules. A thousand years on Earth is just an hour in eternity.
2006-09-19 09:05:40 · answer #5 · answered by Ely C 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In God speak/Bible talk 1 Milena = 1 day.
2006-09-19 09:03:31 · answer #6 · answered by Jet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Funny??? I thought God created humans on the sixth day of creation???? That's what my Bible says.....
Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day
2006-09-19 09:07:01 · answer #7 · answered by ktjokt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He knew he'd have to make you eventually and started having second thoughts.
2006-09-19 09:03:14 · answer #8 · answered by Drewood 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He actually waited MILLIONS of years. He is a very patient guy.
2006-09-19 09:03:02 · answer #9 · answered by rollo_tomassi423 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
well its like this he wanted humans to evolve on thier own but ultimately he was frustrated and came in. ok!!!!
2006-09-19 09:03:39 · answer #10 · answered by americandreamboy4u 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋