If creationism is true, why didn't the creator create everything at the same time?

Question

What was the point of creating sexual relations, child birth and individual death since the creator could have created *and killed* everythng all at once and gotten it over with?

Why was there more than one generation?

What is the point in having multiple generations?

Julian, what I mean is one life cycle.

Creation, lifespan, death for everything all at one time rather than dragging it out over hundreds (thousands?) of generations?

In other words, there is no logical explanation?

In other words, there is no logical explanation?

Fireball:

Lucifer rebelled, so God created the universe?

Interesting idea, but it doesn't seem to make much sense or agree with the Bible version.

Answer 1

There's little point to nonsense, once people start telling tall tales the convolutions required to keep the story going become so tortured as to be grotesque...Creationism is all part of the fiction that surrounds a fictional character named God.

Answer 2

I think you can see that it would be pointless to create and kill at the same time so that does not enter into the question that I think you were really trying to ask. I would hope you were asking why everything was not made all at one time. In that case pick up some paint an easle and do a self portrait or a picture of any thing that you would like. You have a point at which you begin and another at which the work is completed. While I could agree that God could have created everything at one time, including all of the people that would ever live-the Creator chose not to. In the case of people, it would have been necessary to make a much larger planet to have everyone here at once, which could have been done but was not either. It appears that there is a conscious effort to show us that there are orderly rules and principles as well as a sequence to them. Planets, math, physics, organisms, every single thing that exists is bounded by rules and order. We could not even probe some of those things if it were not for the order and rules of science and chemistry, nature and weather and everything. That tells me that the Creator has a set of rules for everything. As far as life and death are concerned mankind brought death into the equasion by disobedience to the Creator. Yes, the Creator knew that would happen and still did not make the planet so large that everyone could live at once and die at once. There is an orderly progression. There is also a past history that we chose to learn or not learn from because generations and things from it die and new ones are born. That means there is also a length of time that will continue and one that it will cease. Just as women give viable birth after a certain number of months, the earth has a certain number of years or cycles too before it dies. While it lives we are here to learn something and accomplish something in that great oderly plan. When our number of chances to do that are completed it will be the end and by the free will given to us we will have done that on an individual as well as on a collective basis or we will not have and it will be clear even to us though we tend to be slow learners, whether we by our own choices did that or not. ....Remembering that every course of action has a result.

Answer 3

Can you prove that you exist? Yes, of course you can. You merely use your senses to determine that you can see, hear, feel, smell, taste and you have emotions as well. All of this is a part of your existence. But this is not how we perceive God in Islam. We can look to the things that He has created and the way that He cares for things and sustains us, to know that there is no doubt of His existence.

Think about this the next time that you are looking up at the moon or the stars on a clear night; could you drop a drinking glass on the sidewalk and expect that it would hit the ground and on impact it would not shatter, but it would divide up into little small drinking glasses, with iced tea in them? Of course not.

And then consider if a tornado came through a junkyard and tore through the old cars; would it leave behind a nice new Mercedes with the engine running and no parts left around? Naturally not.

Can a fast food restaurant operate itself without any people there? That's crazy for anyone to even think about.

After considering all of the above, how could we look to the universe above us through a telescope or observe the molecules in a microscope and then think that all of this came about as a result of a "big bang" or some "accident?"

Answer 4

God could have if He had wanted to but much of what HE has done and is doing is to help us see how He wants to relate to us.

He has a lot of "object lessons" to show us how to build precept upon precept so that we have a less chance of going astray.

Families are one of these basic building blocks. If a family is doing what GOD wants them to do, there is a loving father who looks after the well being of all of the family and protects them.

Even the time period of creation shows this. God intended for us to have a day of rest each week (remember, before machines, people had to work far longer hours just to survive) so HE set the example by choosing to use six days for creation and resting on the seventh.

Answer 5

Creation is a continuing process. If the Source of Life didn't send power out into the universe constantly, we would cease to exist.
These forces are the basis for religous beliefs.
If we are creative, we meld with the creative aspects. If we are
destructive, we join the destructive aspects.

Answer 6

God created everything in stages so that u could understand it, so that u can understand the universe, and how it began, how it works and how it can be used. If everything is made, just like that, ur brain won't understand it, so u won't be able to study any phenomenon, u won't be able to cure diseases, make constructions or even have science. What is science withoout understanding? and what is it without stages and phases?

Answer 7

ah, so you've figured it all out from all angles ? Sure ?
The fall of some of the angels from heaven left thrones for those who would follow God and those had to filled till the end of time. so we have our chance to inherit those which the fallen ones rejected. However it is all about free will, not automatons raised from stones.

Answer 8

i might have an answer-- but its not in most christian doctrine--
God created angels-- angels are immortal--Lucifer rebelled---being immortal he can never change--he will always be as he is--evil.. God still wants a family-- so He creates man-- but He makes man mortal...so if man rebels-- he can be destroyed-- man rebels--but God doesnt want to destroy him ...therefore sex,child birth, death--- if you heed the bible at all--he almost changed His mine and was ready to get rid of us with the flood--but I think there is enough of Him in us that He continues to love us anyhow...He still wants us to be part of his family--- and what is time to God? if it takes 10,000 or 100,000 or even a 1,000,000
years for us to either get our act together....or find Him on the eve of our own destruction...He knows we will find Him eventually

Answer 9

Both creationists and its detractors make a fundamental error: treating symbolic language as literal. To ask questions about the literalness of mythological stories is to miss the symbolism.

Answer 10

god created the universe for man to worship no one but him, it was also a test given to man after adam was exiled from heaven , a test of who can withstand the promptings of satan.
so god has given us free will and freedome of judgemnt to see who does better deeds