2007-10-23 02:53:45 · 14 answers · asked by Cotton Wool Ninja 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If God always existed, then he literally waited an eternity before creation... If time has always existed, everything possible should have already occurred...
Time must have had a beginning, and it could not have had a cause.
2007-10-23 02:59:24 · answer #1 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Was he waiting? That implies Time was linear (one unit of time after another, tick-tick-tick...) BEFORE Time was created, which cannot be factual. A thing can only be an idea before it is created.
You see, the first reference to Time existing is the creation of Night and Day. Before that, G-D was creating the heavens and the earth, but the Torah ( in its first book, the Book of Bereshith, commonly called Genesis) doesn't say Time was involved in the creation of the heavens and earth, only once He created evening and morning. "And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, the first day." (Gen. 1:5)
AND, it actually separates the creation of Light and Darkness from the creation of the sun and moon and stars, which are created after the earth is created, according to the account.
What does that say about Time? If our scientists can reasonably date the celestial bodies having different ages, perhaps that doesn't mean that the biblical account is WRONG, but that our assumptions about how G-D used TIME when He created those celestial bodies is wrong.
2007-10-23 03:22:09 · answer #2 · answered by Tseruyah 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
what is "so long" for you is just a blink of the eye in time for God.
Have kids? ever take them somewhere and they ask over and over if "are we there yet?" and you tell them "5 minutes" and for 2 seconds they "patiently" wait...then ask again...but this time when you say "5 minutes" they retort "you just said that". Try explaining to that little one that the 2 seconds they deemed so long doesn't effect the overall 5 minute time of arrival...you can't. The toddler or young child doesn't grasp those concepts anymore than you or I can completely grasp eternity....but one day they will, when they are older and a bit wiser...just as one day we will understand a bit better our Lords great plan. God bless
2007-10-23 03:09:00 · answer #3 · answered by rayneshowers 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-04 10:22:37 · answer #4 · answered by snead 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God was everything before he created everything. He was happy being the son the father and the spirit all at the same time for a while but wanted something more. He created something else vthat was him but not part of the trinity. The Universe!!!!
2007-10-23 03:21:46 · answer #5 · answered by Thomas N 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why would It build an entire universe around man? That sounds more like a human ego trip to me.
Time is irrelevant to an eternal being, time would not even exist until this being created it.
Pantheist
2007-10-23 03:01:45 · answer #6 · answered by Equinoxical ™ 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
How long do you think He waited? Wait would imply time, and as the first poster stated, there is no time in eternity...
He didn't wait at all. Our finite minds have difficulty processing this, considering we'd have to first master the ability to ignore time. If we ignore time, in the linear sense (not Stephen Hawkings sense...wow), then God didn't wait at all, He started at the beginning of time.
2007-10-23 02:59:55 · answer #7 · answered by tcjstn 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because he was having a long rest after creating the universe and cosmos...........wouldn't you?
2007-10-23 02:59:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Time isn't measured in eternity.
2007-10-23 03:05:48 · answer #9 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well time really is irrelevant because God created Time. He is outside of time.
2007-10-23 03:01:10 · answer #10 · answered by : 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋