He must have been alone for eternety, why did he just start creating now since the bible's history is only 6000 years old.
I know he created angelic life before earth but still, his creation had a beginning so at some point he was alone for an eternety. Is that logical? Why did he find the need to create if he was alone for eternety.
2007-04-26 08:11:17 · 17 answers · asked by sfumato 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God is one thing and His creation is another. God has always been around. He just decided one day during His foreverness to create a universe for His life and love idea.
2007-04-26 08:19:31 · answer #1 · answered by Red Ant 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You stopped at the 6th day of creation.That was already 6000 years and He rested for another one thousand years which was the 7th day and another several thousands of years have gone by after that until this generation.
The life that He created in the Holy Book was the beginning of man to realized the truth about One Single God. Eons ago before that life begun man was a wandering soul in search of his truth, living for many generations, believing in many Gods and Godesses that were lately proven to be a myth. He was never alone for eternity because He was also into the nothingness where mankind have the pure absence of knowledge about Him. When He shouted let there be light, then Adam was the first to be enlightened and man was no longer a wanderer because he found himself enclosed in a garden of knowledge. God is not a static being but more of a dynamic becoming and so for eternity He will be the beginning and the end.
2007-04-26 15:34:26 · answer #2 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God has alway been.
Time is a created measurement. It is only used by humans. God doesn't use this measurement because he is outside of time.
Why did God create? That is a good question.
I have my own opinion on that. I believe God wanted to show grace. He knew all along when He was creating that sin would enter the universe.
He knew all along that he would not show forgiveness to Lucifer and the angels that would rebell.
He knew all along that Adam and Eve would sin.
He knew all along that He would send his own son, Jesus, to die for all those that would ever believe in him.
He created for His own glory. He shows grace for his own glory. He sent Jesus...to Glorify the Father.
It all brings Him glory...and I worship him for that.
2007-04-26 15:22:17 · answer #3 · answered by Red-dog-luke 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Creation exists in space and time, something that has finite dimensions. Suppose there are dimensions beyond these, maybe even an infinite number of dimensions that exclude creation? There are things way beyond the comprehension of the human mind, so it is futile to try to make judgements as to what is logical.
2007-04-26 15:16:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think you answered your own question. Who would want to be alone for eternity? Personally I'd want some company who could think for itself, just like He did. Would you rather talk to a robot who said whatever you wanted, or someone who could make a decent point of view from an area you didn't think of yourself? While He knows all of our thoughts/deeds/actions/etc before we make them, that doesn't mean they don't please Him. What parent doesn't smile when they see their child obey the way they were taught without you standing there? What parent isn't proud of their children when they do what is right over what is wrong, regardless of what it cost them? Truely I say to you, such things make Him happy beyond words could say, and He will show you by blessing you.
2007-04-26 15:18:36 · answer #5 · answered by Stahn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time didn't exist before God created it. And it won't exist after He puts an end to it.
Yeah, I know that concept is over your head. It's a tuffie, but I do assure you, the Creator lives outside of the space-time continuum.....
2007-04-26 18:05:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For all the billions of years of incalculable time prior to creation of the world, God existed. The Trinity existed in perfect harmony and flawlessness, having all they needed in one another. David said in Psalms 16:11 that "joy and pleasures forever more" are in the presence of God. That means to be in the presence of God carries with it a sense of joy, fulfillment, and pleasure. Before creation, God felt complete joy and fulfillment as He perfectly beheld and communed with himself. God has and always will experience complete joy because he has complete and perfect knowledge of himself.
So before He created the universe, God experienced absolute satisfaction. God dwelt joyfully alone in eternity as the Trinity. These three were together in fellowship with one another from all eternity. They loved each other.
2007-04-26 15:16:30 · answer #7 · answered by Silver 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Longer than that the earth is billions of years old. We may or may not be the only life in the universe and what about other deminsions? I think it is arrogance that we think we were only or first or last creation of His.
2007-04-26 15:24:09 · answer #8 · answered by bess 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think perhaps "time" is a worldly concept created by God for us. I don't think time exists in eternity the way we perceive it in this life. It's a bit abstract but, just some of my thoughts...
2007-04-26 15:17:08 · answer #9 · answered by Baz 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God exist's beyond time, He is the one who created the concept of time as humans understand it.
2007-04-26 15:18:21 · answer #10 · answered by holy_see 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋