How Old is the World?

How Old is the World?

If God created the world; as the Bible plainly states: How long did it take God to create the World? And how old is the world? Is it really billions of years old as the evolutionists insist? 

This question has been debated & theorized about for thousands of years.

Cosmologists insist that because of the vastness of space and the relative speed of light; that the universe must be billions of years old. 

In fact the great vastness of Space is due to the fact that God “stretched” out the heavens; and in so doing created the appearance of eons of light years.

Many theologians will suggest that the world is approximately 6-10,000 years old; and that God created it in just 6 days!

Still other commentators suggest that there was a Gap between the initial creation process and the finished product. 

Some even support the Big Bang theory and a type of Theistic Evolutionary oversight over a long period of time.

But all of these educated guesses miss the mark entirely. They do not take fully into account what the “Creator” himself has said about how long it took to make the world, and all the things that exist!

The simple answer is: It took God absolutely “NO TIME” whatsoever to make all that exists in our universe! Yes; you read that right, it took God No Time at all! None!

Psalms 33:6-10 indicates that by the mere power of the Word of God, and upon his audible pronouncements, it came suddenly and immediately into existence!

Hebrews 11:3 indicates that God did not even need pre-existing matter to produce his designs!

Oh, I know full well that Genesis One conveys the idea that God created the world in 6 days. But these 24 hour creation-modules that would later become designated as “Days” were pre-designed for mankind’s affinity for judging time.

Time did not exist until God finished his great 6-Phased construction project! 

In fact, God is beyond time and space; and in reality invented our concept of dimensional time! An in depth study in cosmology quickly reveals that all the stars, planets, galaxies and constellations were not only designed, but preprogrammed to follow a timed circuitry in space. 

God was not, and still is not confined to our dimension of time-progression, distance, nor even to our universe of matter and energy!

In fact, everything God brought into existence in his grand Construction Project was designed upon completion to be a perfect habitat and environment for mankind to Live in.

Isaiah 45:18 For this saith the Lord that created the heavens, (space) God himself that formed the Earth, and made it, he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited! (By man)

Only the Earth was so prepared! And God did all this outside of the realm of TIME!

Then just before God created Man, and planted him upon Earth, he formed the Sun, the Moon & the stars for Light, and also placed them perfectly for enabling the calculation of TIME by man.

Sir Issac Newton, the great scientist; once postulated; “the reason I know there is a Creator, is because “Motion” has been imputed into everything in the cosmos.” Everything moves with great precision and can be calculated in its circuits.

Thus, when God completed his 6-stage pronouncements of Space, Matter, Light, habitat for men and provided the Stars; he stepped back; inspected it all for accuracy and goodness; then He gave it all MOTION, MOTION! 

Motion begat Time! Then TIME began! Time has been ticking ever since; and Time will continue until God stops it!

How long did it take God to create the world? How old is the World? The only barometer mankind has for determining the answers to these questions is the Bible. 

And the Bible suggests that the age of the world can only be ascertained by the amount of time that man has been on it. And that’s just one reason why the “begats” of the preflood world are provided. 

The listing of begats throughout the book of Genesis suggests that there were about 1656 years from the time of Adam to the time of Noah’s great flood. 

From Noah to Abraham was about 300 years and from there to Jesus was about another 2000 years. We are now about 2000 years removed from Christ’s first coming; So, the world is not very old. 

These calculations serve to prove that God is not time distant from the world. He is very much attentive and involved in the affairs of mankind and the world that he created. 

How ironic it is that the Christian world actually measures world time according to the time of Jesus earthly lifetime  

How long did it take God to create the world? NO TIME AT ALL / HE’s GOD! He dwells in the non-dimensional realm known as ETERNITY!

How long will you be in the world? That’s the important question. A very short time! Perhaps; you should consider the hope of enjoying Eternity with God, when your time on earth expires.

Darrell G Young