When did God create the heavens?

Answer 1

GenesisHeaven was created approximately 4.4 Billion years ago. Genesis 1:1 " In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

Fact:

The age of the Earth is 4.54 billion years (4.54 × 109 years ± 1%).[1][2][3] This age is based on evidence from radiometric age dating of meteorite material and is consistent with the ages of the oldest-known terrestrial and lunar samples.

let's not leave out the dating process of dinosaur bones.

Surely no one believes dinosaurs didn't exist and that alone makes Earth a minimum of 100 Million Years old.

Answer 2

God made heaven (Gen. 1:1, first book of The Bible).

Answer:

The concept of a location for living in the afterlife is common in many religions. Greeks and Jews had a rather dismal afterlife of wandering around as "lost souls". The Vikings had a rtaher dull afterlife for most folks but a rollicing party for those fallen in battle, Hindus and Buddhists have a an afterlife (after many reincarnations) of non-self existence. Wiccans believe in Summerland a pastoral hHeavn of peaceful existence with nature. Christians and Moslems are alike in a rewarding Heaven. The major difference is that the Christian Heaven is celibate while the Moslem Heaven is not.

As to where this concept comes from, it is probably comforting to those friends and family left alive to imagine the departed to be available for a future meeting in a pleasant location. SO they invented it.

Answer 3

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. (Genesis 1:1, King James Version)

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To answer the question as to when God created the heavens".

Genesis states that it is in the beginning, but when there is no timeline?. Because there is none. However, 'the heavens and the earth' must be defined, based on my experiences with the 'divine process' and the Almighty bestowed in-depth 'wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of how the authors deliver their stories, "Heaven and Earth" are divine, and not physical.

Answer 4

If God created a heaven and hell for man, it must have happened after the Babylonian Exile, since the Hebrew people showed no awareness of their existence before that time. In the Bible, God seems to have told the people everything they needed to know, and until after the Exile they believed that the dead went to sheol, a place of neither reward nor punishment but of semi-consciousness, more like the pagan hades. Even today, Jews do not believe in hell, potentially calling its existence into doubt.

Jewish answer:

What others call "Hell" and Jews call gehinnom was created on the Second Day of Creation (Talmud, Pesachim 54a).

What others call "Heaven" and Jews call olam haneshamot or shamayim was in place not later than the creation of souls.

These concepts have different names in Judaism than in other languages, but the existence per se of the reward and punishment of souls is a fundamental Jewish belief, as expressed in the Prophets (Isaiah 66:24) and the Talmud (Rosh Hashanah 17a).

Answer 5

The universe (the heavens) is approximately 13 billion years old.

Genesis provides creation accounts that may suggest a more recent date of creation. There are two, quite different, creation accounts in the biblical Book of Genesis. Neither says that God created the Earth itself - the Earth existed before the first act of creation - but in the first creation account, Genesis 1:1 to 2:4a ( up to first sentence of 2:4), God created the firmament on the second day, and created the sun, moon and stars on the fourth day of creation.

If we take the biblical genealogies absolutely literally, as Archbishop James Ussher did, we could say that the Bible says that God's creation was in October 4004 BCE.

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Answer 6

There is no mention, in either creation account in Genesis, of the earth being created, although many English translations of the Bible tend to imply creation ex nihilo. In the usual English translation of Genesis chapter 1, verse 2 is ambiguous - was the earth without form and did darkness move on the face of the deep before the start of creation, or after? Did God create everything, or was the earth already there? As long ago as the eleventh century CE, the influential Jewish scholar, Rashi, said that Genesis 1:1 should be read, 'When God began to create' or 'In the beginning of God's creation '. Rashi sought to translate the opening statement of Genesis more correctly, while maintaining that nothing existed before the time of creation.

E.A. Speiser, in Genesis (Anchor Bible Series), goes further and translates the sentence as follows: When God set about to create heaven and earth - the world being a formless waste, with darkness over the seas... God said, 'Let there be light.' And there was light. The New American Bible translation is in basic agreement with Speiser, giving the first two verses as: In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters.
Genesis 1:1 assumes that a pre-existing watery chaos already existed - the ocean was present and a wind moved across the surface. And the seas rested on the dry land, which appeared when God gathered the waters together. So, the earth is uncreated - the land, the seas and the air already existed, but order was needed. Many experts in Hebrew have carefully examined the texts and confirm that this is what they say. The biblical creations were not ex nihilo.

In other words, the earth was not created . The firmament was created on day 2, which is the closest we get to a day for creation of heaven. The firmament was considered to be a dome placed just above the earth, to separate the waters above from the waters below, and the sun, moon and stars were lights that God placed in this dome - there was as yet no understanding of the vastness of space. Genesis 1:8 says that God called the firmament 'heaven', but it is not the spiritual heaven we often think of today, nor was it the universe in which the earth is merely one tiny planet.

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Answer 7

The Bible states that God created the universe on the first of the seven Days of Creation (Genesis ch.1), which means Saturday evening until Sunday evening.
According to tradition, God created the universe out of nothing (Exodus 20:11, Isaiah 40:28; Rashi commentary to Genesis 1:14; Maimonides' "Guide," 2:30; Nachmanides on Gen. 1:1).Note that the verses describing the Creation deliberately employ brevity and ellipsis, for a reason given in the Talmud (Hagigah 11b), which says that delving into too much detail in this matter can lead to heretical notions.

Answer 8

Tradition places the creation of the universe (including the heavens) about 6000 years ago. See also:

Is there evidence for Creation?

Can you show that God exists?

How many Creation-narratives are in Genesis?

The Torah states that it was written in its entirety by one author, Moses (Deuteronomy 31:24), to whom it was dictated by God (Exodus 24:12), including earlier events.
The Torah has one creation-narrative, which takes the form of a summary (Genesis ch.1) followed by an in-depth recap (Rashi commentary, Genesis 2:8).
When we see a newspaper whose opening headline is paraphrased in the detailed story, we don't ascribe the repetition to different writers.

But this kind of literary device, which the Torah employs to enrich its text, has been used by Bible-critics in an attempt to reassign and divide up its authorship.

The Jewish sages, based on ancient tradition, identified many of the literary devices used by the Torah, which include:

- recapping earlier brief passages to elucidate,

- employing different names of God to signify His various attributes,

- using apparent changes or redundancies to allude to additional unstated details,

- speaking in the vernacular that was current during each era,

and many more. While Judaism has always seen the Torah as an intricate tapestry that nonetheless had one Divine source, some modern authors such as Wellhausen (the father of modern Biblical-criticism, 1844-1918) have suggested artificially attributing the narrative to several unknown authors, despite the Torah's explicit statement as to its provenance (Exodus 24:12, Deuteronomy 31:24). This need not concern believers, since his claims have been debunked one by one, as archaeology and other disciplines have demonstrated the integrity of the Torah. No fragments have ever been found that would support his Documentary Hypothesis, which remains nothing more than an arbitrary claim:

Refuting the JEPD Documentary Hypothesis

The creation-narrative in Genesis (a Christian author)

The authorship of the Hebrew Bible

Answer 9

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Answer 10

Gates of Heaven was created on 1980-10-19.