If God Has Always existed and will always exist, then why did he wait so bloody long before he created life?

Question

The bible and torah seem to feel that god created the Earth & Adam and Eve and all life on Earth in one week. And the Christians' answer to the question 'Who made God?' are all along the lines of 'he has always existed and will always exist', well then, why did he wait trillions and trillions and trillions of years before creating life on Earth?

Answer 1

God is exists outside of time in eternity.

8: But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
-2 Peter, chapter 3 (from The holy Bible, Revised Standard version)

Answer 2

Well first what's a torah? you say about the earth being made in a week, well what the bible doesn't say is how did they know what a week was, there was no such thing as a day, an hour, the first way of measuring time was done i believe using the moon, so what's to say that God made the earth in 7 million years. One of the problems of today is to many people believing what is written in a story book, yes there is some truth there, but we all know how man kind can not be trusted, just think, one day a man calls himself the son of God, and he goes round doing assorts of wonderful things, your a reported and you need to write about this are you going to do what they do today, add bit's change bit's to make it more interesting. God has always been, and will always will be, but what is time, time is only something we measure, for God there is no such thing

Answer 3

God has all the time in the world.
Where does he need to go afterwards?
Your concept of time (1 year) is an orbit of the Earth round the Sun.
There are millions of other Star systems with planets.
These planets may orbit faster, then their years would be shorter and far more than what you mention.

Did you know that the Universe spins too!
HOW MANY REVOLUTIONS OF THE UNIVERSE IS THIS?

Answer 4

How do you know God waited so long were you there? If you are infinite, why do you need time?

Yes you were their in the first earth age, we are the ones who fell and are now asking for forgiveness. In order to b become redeemed, we have to be born of flesh through the water and our memoirs are taken away. We are only left with feelings until we die.

Satan and his crew did not take that route, they remained spirit and were not given a soul, so they still have their memory until they come to an end. To be in this dimension of matter, you need to have a negative and positive charge, that is why God allowed evil to persist.

When you never die, why do you need to watch time?

Answer 5

Because the Christian God isn't limited to simple linear thinking. The concepts of "before" and "after" are predicated on one believing that time is completely linear.

Draw a circle on a piece of paper. Put a dot on it anywhere you like. Why did you put the dot where you did? Why not at the "beninning"? If you can see the whole of it at the same moment, doesn't it sort of diminish the concept of "beginning" or "start"?

So is it as Christians believe, with their God.

Answer 6

Because.

There are 3 heaven and earth ages, same heaven and earth but different ages.

II Pet.3:5-7 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
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THE WORLD THAT THEN WAS
Gen.1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

To that earth age the world that then was, belongs all fossils and remains. Scientific estimates or guesses; universe or heavens 20 billion years old, earth 4.6 billion years old, moon 200 to 300 million years younger than earth, dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago, Ice Age 2.5 million years ago.
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BEING OVERFLOWED WITH WATER PERISHED
Gen.1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

AND THE EARTH WAS
The word “was” (hayah) in Hebrew, was not distinguished by the Revisers, that is the verb “to be” from “to become”. The same Hebrew word “hayah” is translated “became” in Gen.2:7.
AND THE EARTH BECAME

WITHOUT FORM H8414 tohu (to'-hoo) From an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), that is, desert; figuratively a worthless thing; adverbially in vain: - confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.

VOID H922 bohu (bo'-hoo) From an unused root (meaning to be empty); a vacuity, that is, (superficially) an undistinguishable ruin: - emptiness, void.
AND THE EARTH BECAME DESOLATE AND EMPTY
Earth was not created that way but became desolate and empty due to Satan’s rebellion. A global overflowing of water, but not Noah’s deluge. Darkness was upon the (face) of the deep, in other words the whole earth.
Into this we can read; dinosaur extinction, destruction of Atlantis, breakup of Gondwana Land, and the Ice Age.
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BUT THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WHICH ARE NOW
Gen.1:2 And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Gen.1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

About 63 A.D. Peter writes, the heavens and the earth which are now. The heaven and earth age we are in now, today.
BY THE SAME WORD ARE KEPT IN STORE
RESERVED UNTO FIRE
AGAINST THE DAY OF JUDGMENT
AND PERDITION OF UNGODLY MEN
PERDITION G684 apoleia (ap-o'-li-a) From a presumed derivative of G622; ruin or loss (physical, spiritual or eternal): - damnable (-nation), destruction, die, perdition, X perish, pernicious ways, waste.
Some will perish eternally and not see the third heaven and earth age.

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Answer 7

The Bible and the Torah aren't the only authorities on God and Her wonderful workings! Simple as!

How do we know that God hasn't created life in other galaxies, in other universes? We don't, but that doesn't stop us from speculating. We shouldn't automatically assume we are alone in the universe because there's no proof that we are. Out of billions of planets and star systems, why was our one the only one picked to house life?

Must be that the Torah and Bible are wrong!

Answer 8

it depends on what you call life. all life starts off as unicellular life which is then fertilesed by another cell or the cell divides itself. As soon as this cell appears it is life whether it is going to be a tree a bug or a person. So he hardly waited trillions of years, did he? As soon as the earth began developing, then so did life.

Answer 9

it is written to the Lord a day is as a 1000 years and a 1000 years as a day some question we wont know the answers to until the day the mystery of God is revealed i have many questions that only God knows the answers too

Answer 10

God created time. God was and is outside of our understanding of time. and if you think of it that way... then God really did not wait so long to create us, but he did it right away. There are some books by C.S. Lewis, they are fictional but they are good at helping us to see that things are different if there is not the same understanding of time. it is this extra dimension that God is not confined to.