Do people ever wonder how long in our time did it take God to create the world?
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everybody is coming up with the same stupid stuff on creation again and again. instead of thousand years why cant you make it 1 billion years. so that your problem is solved. bible is happy and the scientists are also happy. because it is closer to thier estimate of the age of this universe.\n\nthe calculations mentioned in bible are taken literally out of the "book of Dzyan". ofcourse with a little changes to suit to thier tastes so that it looks very different. going by the events in history all biblical characters were of recent origin, 3000 BCE. this has been confirmed many times. firstly by believers of bible initially and later on by scientific evidence. on that count there is no difference of opinion.\n\nneither during early days of genesis nor till recently anybody was bothered about the age of universe. everything revolved around what is written in genesis. genesis has a strong basis to believe that thier world was created about 6000 years ago. that is true. that part of the world, around israel, middle east there were lot of geological changs happened. lot of people displaced and when the new race came into the land they needed a fiction. so it fits perfectly well with genesis. no doubt genesis is correct on the accuracy of begining of human settlement in israel and surrounding middle east areas around 3800-3600 BCE. when a new faith is started,  it needs a new look, its just old wine in new bottle with a little changes while serving it.\n\nthe cosmos has seven rounds/phase to reach the pinnacle, so whoever wrote genesis just took it for seven days. infact we are in the four round/phase where the human beings evolved. by seventh everything will be returned back to god and the next cycle/round/phase will start again. currently we are in the middle of the cycle. around  4-5 billion years. the cosmos keeps expanding and new things & beings will evolve over time. then the contraction & collapse will be much faster. only to expand again. doesnt it looks like a play? yes, god loves to play. he enjoys the play and so he plays it.\n\nnow your question: how long does it take for god to create in our time. nothing. my answer is NOTHING. because he did not create. he was evolving himself into all kinds of beings.  he is everywhere, in everything. that is the beauty of god. he keeps churning everything. cosmos is so vast. we human beings are not able to understand what the earth properly. so thinking in cosmic proprtion is difficult for many. yes, there are human beings who have achieved this cosmic alingment with god. god just attracts everything like a magnet, some attract much faster than other. we have to be intune with nature, god.\n\ncreation/evolution are not different. they are two sides of the same coin. religions unnecessarily created this one sided theory and scientists continue to hold on to thiers.\n\ni do not find anything difficult in understanding this cosmos. with or without god. because everything is divine, godly.
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when god decides it's time
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Absolutely! The bible says that “God created the heavens and the earth” and that he did this in 7 days. As I understand it, the original text really said something more like “7 periods of time”. Even if you take the literal 7 days, just how long is a day for God?\nIt also does not say how. \n\nAs I read the story of creation, I soon realize that when God created man, he created mankind not just a single man. This is illustrated when Cain killed Able and was sent away. He said that the others would recognize him. If you were to read the story literally, then there would be no others. There was Adam, Eve, Cain and Able. Cain was killed.\n\nI have always interpreted “God created man in his image” to mean that there were already people on earth, however God gave man a soul. First man then women. Before that men were more like animals. \n\nThe bible does not spell out much about creation; it just simply states it happened. It does not really define how or over what period of time. Who is to say that God did not create man by evolving primates? Isn’t that really the whole basis of the new “Intelligent Design” theory? The why of course is not spelled out either. Maybe so that there would be the debate…\n\nI’m going to leave my religious believes out of this discussion, they are not important to this discussion. Just suffice it to say, don’t jump to conclusions about my believe system based on the answer above.
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yes, in a way it already has.\n\nthere is a missing day in the history of the world.they went back an did all there cauculations and found there was.\n\nin the Bible there is one part were Jashua is fighting an he asks God to make the sun an moon stant still.\nand He did until they won.\nanother place a man was asking God if he would live to be older, an as a sign , the shadows would go backwords for a certain amout of time.\n\ntheologists have found that the time in both of these incodents have added up to exactly 1 day.\n\nCoincedence?
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MEIGHAN2006,\n\nIt is interesting that God created the whole universe and all the animals and plants, etc. by just speaking a word. When He made man, He got down in the dirt and planted a garden and then formed Adam from the dirt and breathed life – the eternal part – into him. Then He made Eve from one of Adam’s ribs.\n\nIt is amazing that God was able to make man and woman with a word, yet He showed love from the very beginning as He served His creation by planting a garden and then fashioning them similar to Himself. He has a heart to love and to serve and His rules for us are the same as the way He lives. He wants us to love and serve each other.\n\nIt is also interesting that He made water originate in the garden. The water didn’t flow through the garden, but came up from the ground in the garden and then formed 4 rivers leaving the garden. The garden was probably similar to heaven where there is water that flows from under His throne.\n\nIn my humble opinion, the living water in us is figurative of this water that flows from God’s throne. When we put ourselves on the throne, the flow is restricted or the water becomes stagnant. When God is enthroned in our hearts – when Jesus is our Lord, the living water flows freely. That is the abundant life.\n\nGod bless.
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Your question assumes God is "in time".  He is not.  He is outside of time and space.  He created time and space!  So it doesn't make sense to ask "HOW LONG was God alone".  He just existed\n\nIn addition, he was not alone.  He has always existed as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.\n\nWrap your mind around that one!
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It's more like - the people of the world created god.
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4.6 billion years but creation speeds up as time goes along so a year 10,000 years ago could have lasted 100 years to us in present time, there are scientific theories on this phenomenon. This also explains why people lived so long, it's not that they lived longer but time was moving slower.\n\nAdam and Eve left the Garden of Eden 6000 thousand years ago.
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you already answered your own question.  not as long as religious zealots roam the Earth!!
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God made the first humans over 160,000 years ago and he made a lot of them, both male and female. Look around - this is the world that God has made, including evolution. God made evolution to carry his creation forward. Some of those humans, both male and female, don't have children, and some of them do. It's all part of God's creation. Isn't it great?
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Who created whom ?  Did God create man, or did man create God ?  Forget timeframes and other distractions, this is the real question.
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No, God was not bored. He wanted to make the world and to complete all of that, he made Humans. Humans, are of course, the most proudest creatures that God had made. God also made humans to take care of other of His creations (like plants, animals, etc.) while He looks after the Humans and see what they are doing.
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No. A day is a measured period of time and can be a thousand years or many thousands of years. The Bible's creative days allows for thousands of years of time each. Reasonably, each "day" of creation is the same length as the others, even as the days of the week are of equal length. So, the length of each of the seven "days" of creation is about 7,000 years, according to Bible chronology. Note, that Jehovah God proceeded to rest on the seventh day, and their is no indication the "day" had concluded. The "day" of God's rest continues now nearly 6,000 years. Also, their would be a thousand-year reign of Christ, yet to come.--Revelation 20: 1-6. For more information, go to this website: www.watchtower.org.
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Somewhere around 4 or 5 billion years. Or if you choose the biblical version, around 6,000 years, depending on which religion you subscribe to.
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It is an eternal question that we'll never know the answer to until we are dead.  I'd sit there when I was younger and think who made God and who made the being that created God and who made that being.  I think our sense of beginning and end is not in line with the big picture.  Our minds aren't ready for the truth.
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Yes. Many scientists are Christians, who are former atheists. \nGenesis 1 talks about how God made the universe and everything in it (specifically, the earth) in six days. What many don't think about is that it doesn't say six consecutive days, people just assume that. God could've just as easily made it in six days as he could have in 6 million years (Once every million years He did one more thing or things.) It may say, there was light, and then the fifth day, but we also do not know how long the days were, because God did not create humans first. I mean, Venus's day is longer than it's year, why couldn't have Earth's day been 1 million years, while it's year be a year?
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it took you so long to come up with this question?