Human beings have been on Earth for tens of thousands of years....?

Question

This isn't up for deabte, this is FACT. So why would God wait thousands of years before sending his only son to Earth to create Christianity? If it is the "one true religion", then what about all of those people that came before the time of Christ? Are they just SOL for living at a time when Christianity didn't exist?
I'm asking because I am sick and tired of people saying "the only way to get heaven is to accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior". So, about all of these MILLIONS of humans that came before Jesus, they just end up in pergatory forever? Seems kind of ridiculous to me!

RON (answer below)...you are truly a moron, and need to spend the rest of your life locked in a room reading revelations so that you do not do any harm to other people

YOU PEOPLE ARE AMAZING!!!! HOW CAN YOU SIT THERE AND SAY THAT HUMAN BEINGS ARE ONLY A FEW THOUSAND YEARS OLD? SKELETONS HAVE BEEN FOUND THAT DATE BACK TENS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS. MAYBE YOU SHOULD TRY READING SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE BIBLE YOU F'N MORONS

Answer 1

Yeah I'm always a big fan of pointing out the remote tribes in Africa and South America that have still never HEARD of Christianity. Seriously, ten year old girl bouncin through the rain forest, gets eaten by a panther, and then...eternal damnation!

Fun stuff.

Anyway, speaking of ridiculously entertaining (or entertainingly ridiculous?) Christian ideas, look at all the answers above me like "WHAT! Humans are NOT that old! I have PROOF! Just visit www.we're-gleaning-this-
information-from-slightly-
manipulated-and-loosely-
interpreted-but-TOTALLY-
NOT-BIASED-verses-from-
the-bible.com

Answer 2

You are sooooo right. The anthropologists are coming up with new evidence all the time that hominids and humans have been on earth way longer than the bible claims. My personal belief is that what ever spirituality those people who went before adhered to would have provided a sacred place for their souls to reside after the death of the flesh. Let the christians think what they want it makes them happy and sometimes shuts them up.
P.S. not all christians believe in pergatory, I was raised a christian and we didn't include pergatory in the list of places to go after death.
LL

Answer 3

Physical human beings have been on earth way before the creation of ADAM(the first of the tribe we call Isrealites)as when his family was exiled from the GARDEN of EDEN they met other tribes on the outside. Who created these other tribes? and how long had they been on Earth before the creation of ADAM?
Someone with some type of thinking mind and speech had to have been around to tell of the giants roaming the Earth.And all of the other things that happened before the Expulsion of ADAM and EVE.
If there is ONE TRUE RELIGION it is the belief in the CREATOR OF ALL THINGS. That is known by many names.
Christians: in the beginning was the word and the word was God. After God finished creating its self out of the chaos around it and giving it order . It Spun off sparks of its self that became the souls of all that was and will be.Then created the physical universe and all thats in it. O.T. Genesis( use the original torah translation.)not KJV.as you are a Sept of the Jewish religion.
By beliving in what ever idea of Diety that was in a persons life time you are garenteed a place in some type of Heaven.
The 6046yrs is from the jewish calender and is dated from the creation of ADAM. just as 2006yrs is dated from the birth of Jesus "the Christ". so is the world 6046yrs old or 2006 yrs old . depending on where you start your caldender from.
The O.T. Genesis says that it is much older than that.as it was created before the creation of ADAM.

Answer 4

I was an archaeologist for 16 years. I was pleased to hear recently that some Neanderthal remains from Croatia are intact enough after many tens of thousands of years to have some of their DNA given to the Genome project. So are the Neanderthals in hell too? What about people living in the Americas before the Europeans 'discovered' them - are they in hell? Is God so bloody unfair? I wouldn't worship such a monster.

No, Jesus spoke of love. I don't think that God is as narrow as some people want to think. I see God in every religion I have studied or seen practised. I don't think that God is some sort of sadist the way some people seem to think.

Answer 5

You have asked a loaded question.

However, it brings up a good point. It illustrates how most Bible pounders are really really missing the point.

They have replaced Jesus' message with Jesus Blood on the Cross.

From his baptism to his crucifixion, Jesus spent his entire career bringing us a message from God.

Then the fanatacal pseudo-Christians completely ignored the message and just jumped on the band wagon of:

Jesus paid for our sins (we can forget about his message)

Jesus' blood washed away our sins.
No matter what I do, I will go to Heaven if I go to church and sing about how Jesus' blood paid for all my mistakes; past, present, and future mistakes.
(we can forget about his message)

well, I am sure you get the point.

Now to your question:
God's message has always been the same. Jesus just spent his career explaining God's Message.

And, what is God's message?

Harmony is harmony.

Disharmony is the only sin against God.

When the Bible says that you can only go to Heaven through Jesus, the original text and Jesus life, really meant you can only go to Heaven through Jesus' message. (Which was God's message, which was there for Barney and Fred, and you and me)


*Religions have given God a bad name.

Answer 6

The only reason "most" evidence goes back 7 to 10 thousand years is because "most" biological remains don't last much longer than that. There is, however, plenty of evidence available to demonstrate humanity being here at least 40 thousand years ago and beyond.

And yes, I agree with the original poster, it is ridiculous!

Answer 7

Please don't blame the creator for what the people in the religion business have come up with.

All the dogma in the world isn't worth a bucket of luke-warm spit.

Find your sermons in creation, not cretins.

Those who would convince you that they have some how learned the only TRUTH will only make converts if they shut their yaps and resort to the best and only good sermon, good example.

Answer 8

Well, unless you're immortal nothing is really factual with the limited evidence we have.Most of it is pure speculation, fantasy and theory.I really don't care that much anymore .I'm more concerned with today and tomorrow.History is interesting but not THAT interesting to argue about it.Try not to concern yourself so much with the dead but with the living.The truth will eventually reveal itself to all of us.

Answer 9

Yes it's true. We have all been spoofed by the scientific community. Carbon 14 dating is a lie. Neandertals are all faked. Millions of college students world-wide are being taught lies. And the only ones who know what's really true are those who have barely read one book!
We are the ignorant educated ones...go figure! ; )

Answer 10

There are many of us who do not believe in what you are describing. I was raised a Christian but came to believe in the Buddhist religion instead. I could never swallow the Christian dogma even as a kid.
Humans on earth have been here for about 250,000 years and in their present form for only about 50,000.
I too find many Christians to be obtuse to the facts of science.