As for the creation part I get where you are coming from, but that's always been a small issue to me. There are countless theories about what you're talking about. Scientist believe the earth is billions of years old while most Bible scholars say thousands right. Here's a few theories to that.
Day age theory- It mentions in the Bible that to God a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years a day, meaning the time scale we get of 7 days could just be a metaphor for the different phases.
Pre- aged theory- self explanatory the earth seems older than it is because God made the earth pre aged.
Garden theory- My favorite of these, while adam and eve were in the garden they had access to the tree of life and thus did not age, the Bible doesn't specify how long they were there for. For all we know they spent a million years in the garden.
As for the order of creation, yes it says God made light before the plants, so that would sustain them as for the sun coming after like you said, they would have to, light itself did not exist before then, what would the stars be without it, the sun is merely a big ball of concentrated light, there was already light for the plants sustenance.
As for God knowing everything and creating things He knew would fail, that's a question that we've all pondered and I suspect will forever, the best response I can think of is this. When you decide to have children, you know they are going to make mistakes, break your heart, ect.. but you still want them because you want something to love, to teach and watch grow and to love you back. When existence began God was alone, this is just my thought, I don't presume to know God's mind but perhaps he was lonely.
Personally I thinks while His mind is on a level infinitely beyond ours his emotions mirror our own. We were made after His image, and the Bible makes numerous references to God being angry or jealous, just like a person would be. We're the same we get angry when our children misbehave even when we know they are going too. So if he has these emotions like us it stands to reason he can experience loneliness too.
I'm not sure if I answered your questions properly or not, let me know, I hope it helps.
I'm questioning my faith and it's driving me insane
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As for the creation part I get where you are coming from, but that's always been a small issue to me. There are countless theories about what you're talking about. Scientist believe the earth is billions of years old while most Bible scholars say thousands right. Here's a few theories to that.
Day age theory- It mentions in the Bible that to God a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years a day, meaning the time scale we get of 7 days could just be a metaphor for the different phases.
Pre- aged theory- self explanatory the earth seems older than it is because God made the earth pre aged.
Garden theory- My favorite of these, while adam and eve were in the garden they had access to the tree of life and thus did not age, the Bible doesn't specify how long they were there for. For all we know they spent a million years in the garden.
As for the order of creation, yes it says God made light before the plants, so that would sustain them as for the sun coming after like you said, they would have to, light itself did not exist before then, what would the stars be without it, the sun is merely a big ball of concentrated light, there was already light for the plants sustenance.
As for God knowing everything and creating things He knew would fail, that's a question that we've all pondered and I suspect will forever, the best response I can think of is this. When you decide to have children, you know they are going to make mistakes, break your heart, ect.. but you still want them because you want something to love, to teach and watch grow and to love you back. When existence began God was alone, this is just my thought, I don't presume to know God's mind but perhaps he was lonely.
Personally I thinks while His mind is on a level infinitely beyond ours his emotions mirror our own. We were made after His image, and the Bible makes numerous references to God being angry or jealous, just like a person would be. We're the same we get angry when our children misbehave even when we know they are going too. So if he has these emotions like us it stands to reason he can experience loneliness too.
I'm not sure if I answered your questions properly or not, let me know, I hope it helps.