if god has always existed, must that mean that he waited an eternity before he created the world?

Question

why did he wait so long and what was doin the whole time, just settin in the dark, or what

Answer 1

I'm a Christian, and you're asking a perfectly legit question.

We think in terms of linear time. God isn't hampered by linear time. He exists both within and outside of chronological time. The very concept of "eternity" (which scientists now acknowledge as the framework of an endless string of universes, of which this present universe is but one)... defies chronology. If eternity exists, with God or absent from any intelligent cause, the concept of eternity itself is immeasurable... so we can't even approach it in terms of "then and now" as an absolute.

Answer 2

I was there and it was one of those long eternal days and God said. Hey you know what would be fun? Now you got to remember God has a crazy sense of humor. He is kind of like Chris Farley with a lot of power. He was funny as Hell but He likes to drink. I mean God-Bacchus and all that Comes up with this idea on a massive scale so I said why don't you start small and if it turns out to be a mess well it won't be a big one.
Now you have to remember time does not exist. It's a man made thing you use to measure how long you have before you die. You base it on the third rock from the sun. Nothing to do with the rest of the Universe. So since Earth and man were not here there really was no time.
We weren't sitting in the dark there was light and planets and stars long before Earth. Heck the Sun was there long before Earth. So I went for a quick run to the quicky mart and dang God made this little planet and was going to do all this other stuff with it. Like Dinosaurs and Man.
I thought the Dinosaurs were cool but I saw there was some problems with the man thing. Needles to say God was pissed at me for buying the wrong beer and not liking the man thing, and I had to move out and get my own place. It's been Ying and Yang ever since with us.

L,

Answer 3

" In reaching the conclusion to God as the universe’s cause, (William Lane) Craig relies upon the Muslim principle of determination, first argued by al-Juwayni in his Irshad and retold by Averroës. The principle of determination states that any being or effect requires a particularizer, a being who decides the course of an action between two likely choices. The universe may have been larger or smaller than it is, many billions of years older or younger, or it may have even failed to exist; any of these possibilities are admissible in that they are logically possible. With respect to the universe’s existence, Averroës states that "the admissible is created and it has a creator, namely, an agent, who out of two admissibilities turns it into one rather than the other" Only a sentient being can make the choice to create the universe at the moment that it was created; the Creator could have created the universe an hour earlier or waited several days before doing so. As in Craig’s argument, al-Ghazali uses the argument from particularization in his Tahafut to state that the creation of the universe at that particular moment in time was the result of the determined will of the Creator."

... and that Creator was GOD!

HANK (Josh)

Answer 4

You'll short something out in your brain trying to deal with questions like this. Yes, God has always existed. So, from our perspective, He did wait a long time before creating everything. But that is our perspective, which was can not truly divorce from our understanding of time.

God exists outside of time, in fact, time was created by Him. So to try to understand eternity, the beginning, the ending... etc. is nearly impossible. As human beings, we are pretty much limited to connecting things to things we have already seen and know. God is a couple of steps removed from that.

Not much of an answer, I know, but there really isn't much of an answer possible. If God logged in here and explained it, we wouldn't understand it.

Answer 5

He waited, yes, you got a problem with that? When he finally did create humans it wasn't long before he regretted it, and you can read that in Genesis, okay?

Now thousand of years later and he is probably long gone, totally disgusted and repulsed; and can you blame him? God is great, God is good; but humans what are they?

And don't give me this crap about God should've known better. It's none of your business what God does, he has the right to do anything he wants. So there.

Answer 6

To get to the real crux of the mystery of existence, remove god completely from the equation and think deeply about existence and see that the same exact problem exists whether god is in it or not. And then watch your mind's reactions as the implications are realized. But LOTS of thinking is needed on this -- not just the customary shallow consideration that we usually give.

Answer 7

Some things we are not meant to know. We will be able to ask when we get to Heaven and even then how can we as mere created beings really understand the workings of God?

Answer 8

Iam the alfa -and the -omega I was the begining.as I will be the end.there was no time before God.nor any record of life before God.man was created to serve god.as he is the creator. so yes it seems he was board.and wanted someone to play with who knows what was going through his head when he thought to create us?.

Answer 9

Time does not exist. God is not a separate being, but is All That Is. All God is waiting for, and it isn't really waiting, is for us, His beloved sleeping Son, to awaken.

...The word, "Son" has nothing to do with gender.

Answer 10

Why did he have to wait an Eternity? Maybe he was making other worlds or maybe creating Earth was the first thing he did.

(The girl above me is a r-tard) (HAHA)