Why Did Christ Wait So Long to Come Into the World When Men Had Been in the World For 200,000 Years? A Catholic Article About This

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If you look at Traditional Church teaching, Church Fathers, Doctors and Scriptural clues, you’ll find that it’s actually more like 6000 years.
 
There have been other ages .
This is the current humans age.
And the scripture describes how it will end.
 
A literal interpretation of genesis is just ignorant of not only science but the text itself. I mean the first two chapters tell two different creation accounts
 
That’s your opinion. However, I contend that it’s separate. Perhaps that’s where we exited? Like I said, Elijah and Enoch were translated to Paradise as to not see death until the appointed time.

Genesis 3:24

After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

Hmmm… Sounds like a portal.

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Must be something to my theory… You keep coming back for more of my genius 🤓
 
PJH_74 said:
In my view, if you select what parts of Genesis you want to believe and partially or completely reject others, you open yourself to believing somethings might have been added or are fantastical. T
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I don’t reject any part of Genesis. I just think there are issues of interpretation. The account was not composed by 21st century scientists, and was not done in the style typical of our time. That doesn’t mean any of it was lies or fictions: but it does mean we moderns sometimes have trouble understanding it.
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A literal interpretation of genesis is just ignorant of not only science but the text itself. I mean the first two chapters tell two different creation accounts
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No. They give the same account from a different point of view and with different emphasis.
 
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Sometimes entering the spiritual realm is like doing mind altering drug.
Having known people “slain” in the spirit for hours.
When they return its like a NDE

Just saying
 
I don’t think you have to be a Creationist to scratch your head at some things… even without even mentioning the Bible. Human beings have less genetic diversity than chimps. That kind of blows my mind. We’ve managed to become the dominant species on earth, and apparently are genetically, more or less, the same. It takes species many mutations to just carve a niche for themselves and dominate a small type of habitat. Yet humans conquered just about all of them (other than breathing underwater), without as many mutations. And it spread like wildfire, once we created civilizations 6 or 7 thousand years ago.
 
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There’re definitely mysteries yet to be solved. Not everything can be explained yet. We must continue to think outside the box 📦
 
IF the church fathers had access to scientific analysis and geological records today they’d come to a different conclusion on the interpretation of the first eleven chapters of genesis
 
Not necessarily.

There is actually geological and scientific evidence to support Creationism. It isn’t very common though, as it has been pushed away in favor of the Big Bang pseudo-scientific ideology.
 
If that was the case, the church fathers would have already valued other cosmological points of view then. The Eastern churches especially didn’t. They hated Hellenizing their teachings. Scripture was sufficient for them.

It really wasn’t until Aristotle was rediscovered anyways that the church dabbled in that nonsense, in a systematic way. So I’ll agree at least that the Middle Age churches may have been led astray. They proved that they valued the opinions of men, as it is. But the “church fathers” did not.
 
mdgspencer said:
A question of Faith: Why did Christ wait so long? – Catholic Telegraph

This article has many things to say, and one of them is that after Christ died, he descended to all the dead who came before him to preach to them and offer eternal life, even to Adam and Eve.
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Re: 200,000 yrs,

NASA supposedly says the universe is 13.7 billion years old +/- 2%. It’s that +/- 2% that I find interesting 🤔

Anyway, Peter said to God, 1 day is like 1000 yrs and 1000 yrs is like a day. IOW being like something, it’s also possible as an analogy to change 1000 to a billion yrs. It’s all outside of time anyway. Which is the main point. God is outside of time. Therefore, when He incarnated, was known by Him, before anything was even created by Him.
 
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Big Bang theory is creationism.

I just have a problem with young earth creationists who deny overwhelming evidence just to support a narrow interpretation of the bible
 
The origin of the Universe seems pretty solid. However, the origin of life is much murkier. Constant mass extinction events and calamities, it’s any wonder we’ve progressed this far. There’s definitely more to the story…
 
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It isn’t very common though, as it has been pushed away in favor of the Big Bang pseudo-scientific ideology.
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The Big Bang theory was the work of a Jesuit Priest from Belgium…it is as spiritual as scientific…God said, “Let there br light,”…and KABOOM, there was light from the explosion so gigantic that it (the Universe) is expanding to this day!
 
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