How long did God wait before creating us?

[chris4243]

It is generally said that God loves us very much. What I'm wondering is, how long do you think God would have waited before creating us? A few years? A few hundred, or thousand? Or perhaps God waited an eternity before creating us? What do you think?

 

[Keachian]

does it matter? I mean even if we look at it from now God has seemingly taken 6000 years to create us if we take YEC. He also took 4000 years to fix up what we messed up, this seems to say to me that God doesn't seem bothered by time, what do you think?

 

[juvenissun]

It is generally said that God loves us very much. What I'm wondering is, how long do you think God would have waited before creating us? A few years? A few hundred, or thousand? Or perhaps God waited an eternity before creating us? What do you think?

Who is (are) "us"? Do you mean Adam? or You?
God loves you. Why doesn't He create you 2000 years ago?

 

[chris4243]

Who is (are) "us"? Do you mean Adam? or You?

Adam.

 

[granpa]

God created angels first

 

[juvenissun]

Adam.

5 "Days".

I think your OP should ask: why 5 Days? Why not at Day 1?
Yet, the answer is right in your question: because God loves us.

 

[Keachian]

5 "Days".

I think your OP should ask: why 5 Days? Why not at Day 1?
Yet, the answer is right in your question: because God loves us.

Why did he wait 4000 years before fixing it up?

 

[chris4243]

5 "Days".

I think your OP should ask: why 5 Days? Why not at Day 1?
Yet, the answer is right in your question: because God loves us.

5 days? You're sure it was not that God first waited an eternity, then He started creating our universe, and then 5 days later created us?

 

[Keachian]

5 days? You're sure it was not that God first waited an eternity, then He started creating our universe, and then 5 days later created us?

You can't talk about time outside of time, in this case God would have both waited an eternity and done it instantly.

 

[elopez]

It is generally said that God loves us very much. What I'm wondering is, how long do you think God would have waited before creating us? A few years? A few hundred, or thousand? Or perhaps God waited an eternity before creating us? What do you think?

I think the concept of time as we know and experience it does not apply to an eternal God, so the question itself is null.

 

[juvenissun]

5 days? You're sure it was not that God first waited an eternity, then He started creating our universe, and then 5 days later created us?

In fact, you are asking another question: Why would God want to create?

Are you suggesting that God does not think of creation until some moment when He starts to do it for some reason? May be that is the moment God starts to love us.

 

[chris4243]

What I'm thinking is that God couldn't have created us until an eternity had passed by first.

 

[juvenissun]

What I'm thinking is that God couldn't have created us until an eternity had passed by first.

You need to explain a little bit that illogical phrase. Do you mean there are eternity_1, eternity_2, etc. ?

 

[chris4243]

OK then. Suppose God was created on day 1, and then created us a year later or whatever. This is fine logically (except the God being created part of course), and we have a specific time that we were created. But of course God wasn't created; He has always been. If God has always been, and He created us a year after having always been, that just doesn't make sense... we'd have to exist a year (or whatever) after the start of eternity, which is a contradiction.

 

[juvenissun]

OK then. Suppose God was created on day 1, and then created us a year later or whatever. This is fine logically (except the God being created part of course), and we have a specific time that we were created. But of course God wasn't created; He has always been. If God has always been, and He created us a year after having always been, that just doesn't make sense... we'd have to exist a year (or whatever) after the start of eternity, which is a contradiction.

Assume the eternity is represented by a line made of infinite numbers of dots. Then God starts to create at one of the dot.

Why is this picture not reasonable?

 

[KrimsonDraegon]

7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Stop for a moment. Take a deep breath - not just any ol' deep breath... take the deepest breath you've ever taken in your entire life. Now blow it back out and try to fully empty your lungs. That's a fraction of the effort that the Father spent breathing into your nostrils.

But what is it that the Almighty One blows into us? The King James Version, the version of the Christian Bible I use when discussing Christianity with Christians, translates that the Almighty One breathes into us the "breath of life", yet a better translation from the Hebrew would be the understanding of the Almighty breathing into us a portion of His own soul. Isn't it overwhelming to imagine Him spending so much effort on each of us to impart upon us a portion of Himself? He loves us so much that He would entrust us with part of His Own Being simply to create us in His Image.

So, how long before the Father made us? Well, how long have we been a part of Him?

~ Shaeykh

 

[gluadys]

It is generally said that God loves us very much. What I'm wondering is, how long do you think God would have waited before creating us? A few years? A few hundred, or thousand? Or perhaps God waited an eternity before creating us? What do you think?

Why would he wait? God has been creating us since the first instance of the Big Bang; everything has unfolded in its own time, with the earlier steps preparing the way for the later. Nothing could be created before the world was ready for it. If it took 13.7 billion years for humans to appear, that was how long it took to make the world ready for humans. It wasn't waiting; it was making ready and it took however long it took.

 

[theFijian]

What I'm thinking is that God couldn't have created us until an eternity had passed by first.

So it's an infinite regress question?

 

[Assyrian]

Assume the eternity is represented by a line made of infinite numbers of dots. Then God starts to create at one of the dot.

Why is this picture not reasonable?

Juvenison is corporeal...

...He is linear, he doesn't understand.

 

[juvenissun]

Juvenison is corporeal...

...He is linear, he doesn't understand.

I was thinking of saying: a dot in a 3D body. But that would make you lost.