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Why did God take so long to create everything?
Kat:
Well to me the physical existence is for the experience we gain from it. Something that happens quickly may soon be forgotten, but when you have to experience it for a length of time it tends to stick in your brain more. So I think it is taking so long so as to make this all a more memorable experience.
But then again with the idea of eternity this creation is not really a long time. Even in the time that there has been a creation (13.75 billion years old) the human race has been here only a very short part of that time. Here is something I found on the internet that help you understand how long the human race has been here.
Here's an example to demonstrate the length of time that human beings have existed when compared to the time from Earth's formation:
Observe the length of your arm from your shoulder to your fingertips. This will represent geologic time; the time from the formation of the Earth. Run a fingernail file across the end of the fingernail of your longest finger. You have just erased the period of time in which Homo sapiens has existed.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
levycarneiro:
--- Quote from: Kat on November 30, 2012, 06:59:18 AM ---
Well to me the physical existence is for the experience we gain from it. Something that happens quickly may soon be forgotten, but when you have to experience it for a length of time it tends to stick in your brain more. So I think it is taking so long so as to make this all a more memorable experience.
But then again with the idea of eternity this creation is not really a long time. Even in the time that there has been a creation (13.75 billion years old) the human race has been here only a very short part of that time. Here is something I found on the internet that help you understand how long the human race has been here.
Here's an example to demonstrate the length of time that human beings have existed when compared to the time from Earth's formation:
Observe the length of your arm from your shoulder to your fingertips. This will represent geologic time; the time from the formation of the Earth. Run a fingernail file across the end of the fingernail of your longest finger. You have just erased the period of time in which Homo sapiens has existed.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
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Wonderful example! Thanks! :)
Dennis Vogel:
IMO, if God has a natural way of doing things, He uses it even if it takes billions of years (remember how Ray talked about God being patient?).
But sometimes He needs a miracle.
God cannot lie. So what you see in the universe and on this planet is the truth. It took billions of years to get here.
levycarneiro:
--- Quote from: Dennis Vogel on November 30, 2012, 02:30:55 PM ---IMO, if God has a natural way of doing things, He uses it even if it takes billions of years (remember how Ray talked about God being patient?).
But sometimes He needs a miracle.
God cannot lie. So what you see in the universe and on this planet is the truth. It took billions of years to get here.
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Got you, this must be God's natural way of doing things. It took billions of years, I believe that.
What do you mean by needing a miracle sometimes?
bluzman:
--- Quote from: Craig on November 30, 2012, 03:23:39 AM ---Perhaps time is just a figment of our physical existance. What seems as ages to us is nothing to God.
Craig
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I agree, but I do wonder if what we think is just the opposite of how God is sustaining all.
Bluzman
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