We are told God is immortal. That he has always existed and always will. He is the beginning and the end. The alpha & omega.
100 billion humans have lived and died on this tiny blue dot we call home, so why do Christians believe God decided to bless us with his teachings and his son only 2,000 years ago? Before the “birth of Christianity”, was their no divine presence? What was God doing from between 200,000 years ago* and 2-3,000 years ago, when he gave us his divine teachings? For 198,000 years man was on the earth before God decided to dictate his divine teachings into bible form. Doesn't this seem a little odd?
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human
2007-07-29 16:58:01 · 23 answers · asked by HawaiianBrian 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Patrone: You're confusing me. Who are these people that existed before mythical Adam & Eve?
2007-07-29 17:04:15 · update #1
Smiling Sam: To quote Galileo, "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
2007-07-29 17:13:20 · update #2
To all quibblers: Great, instead of saying 2,000 years, say 4,000 to include OT. Big deal. You still haven't answered the question.
2007-07-29 17:15:13 · update #3
Robert: You asked: "Why would the Bible be compiled if it was all fake?" Good question. Why have 3,000 other religious 'bibles" been compiled if they were all fake? http://www.godchecker.com
2007-07-29 18:34:26 · update #4
Because he didn't set his alarm. The same reason Jesus said he'd be back in his apostles' lifetimes but hasn't made it back yet.
2007-07-29 17:19:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You've go the Christians spluttering in all directions haven't you !!
You have a very valid point, but remember the Earth is only 6,000 years old according to the Bible and the fundies...
I have noticed that not one Christian answer is the same, hence, confusion...
What most religions agree on is that we all have a soul...
The soul is far older than the vehicle (body)...
For well over 200,000 years we have been visiting this rock to learn, and we have been part of the evolution of this planet..
It is almost over, as we approach 2012 and the dawn of the new age, we will evolve to the 5th dimension...
Those who cannot or will not move to the 5th dimension will be transported to another place where the 3rd dimensional vibration will sustain them...
Scoff all you like, it's coming, look around you, see what has happened to our planet, now she is cleansing herself...
Global warming etc is all part of the cleansing...
I got a bit off track there....
Blessed Be... )O(
2007-07-30 00:38:23 · answer #2 · answered by Bunge 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, not odd. When humans were still primitive nomads, there wasn't a need for an all-seeing deity. Then, with the advent of more modern times, there needed to be some sort of moral compass for all of the people too stupid to figure out right and wrong for themselves. Enter "God", commandments, etc.
Now with the rise of the industrial and information ages, the old fairy tales don't ring quite so true any more. Instead of the beliefs changing again, we have degenerated into 2 camps, rabid believers and those of us that have evolved.
2007-07-30 00:06:00 · answer #3 · answered by mikalina 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The idea of gods is a very old one beginning somewhere around 6000 years ago with the Hindu religion. The Abrahamic god of christianity was very likely developed out of earlier models and from other ideas of god. The Egyptian religion and one of it's gods, Horus, seems to be a very likely source for modeling the later ideas of Jesus.
Why...? It's all just a game of creating the god that's right for the times.
Today's most appropriate god idea seems to be no god at all, and I can live with that quite comfortably.
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2007-07-30 01:40:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the first place, how do you know that the human race has been around for 200,000 years?
If you want to know what God was doing before Jesus was born, I would encourage you to read the Old Testament. And, by the way, Jesus did make some appearances on earth before 2000 years ago.
2007-07-30 00:12:00 · answer #5 · answered by David S 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
All civilizations had the concept of gods. Even cave men had ideas of gods. The Greeks and Romans had many gods. The "one god theory" was published 2000 years ago.
It is only a theory.
2007-07-30 00:29:30 · answer #6 · answered by Oliver K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God decides and knows all.
Nothing that God does is odd.
What is odd is what the media, evolution theorists, and atheists do which is blind people with bullshit.
Why would the Bible be compiled if it was all fake?
Just so they can have fun or was it because they were bored?
I mean cmon you would have to be a retard to say its all lies.
Why would 11 of the original 12 disciples suffer an insane amount of torture for a lie?
No one would spend that amount of time and effort for a lie.
2007-07-30 00:17:52 · answer #7 · answered by Robert 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
What's odd is you thinking you know better than God. Created any universes lately?
Besides, haven't you ever heard of the Old Testament? If you haven't, you're in a fine position to be talking about what doesn't make sense.
2007-07-30 00:06:42 · answer #8 · answered by words for the birds 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Do you know the word Antedeluvian? The history of the time before the flood is lost, what ever civilization or knowledge was held before that time is gone. That is not to say that God didn't show up.
God was there with Adam and Eve.
God was there with Noah.
God was there with Moses.
So what are you saying?
2007-07-30 00:07:11 · answer #9 · answered by Village Player 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Wikipedia is not a good source. Modern-day humans arose only about 30,000 years ago, roughly, give or take, around there, ish.
2007-07-30 00:06:02 · answer #10 · answered by Ginger Kid 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋