If god has always existed does that mean that when people first started believing in him 3,500 years ago ?

Question

That is the beginning of time ? What about the written history before then that never mentions him ? Perhaps he has a Tardis ?

Answer 1

I used to work at a bank and people would get mad when I asked for their identification (it's required for withdrawing funds). Once I had a lady say she had an account with us "since the beginning of time" so she should not have to provide ID.

I checked her account and said, "The beginning of time was in 2001?"

Answer 2

If you studied scripture more closley you would see that the earth is 6000 years old.

Answer 3

Please provide some sources for your claims.  You do not believe our Bible is God's Word and it has been around for millenia, yet we are supposed to take your word on these statements.

Job is older than the Pentateuch, incidentally.

Answer 4

Romans 1:19,20; ' ... because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse'.

Answer 5

Adam and Eve started believing in God the moment He gave them conscious existence, and we really do not know when that was.  it is obvious to any reader of at least Junior high education that Moses used older source materials to write about creation.  

  Where in h**l did you get the 3500 years?  Actually, that is where you got that number, or from some other dark place. The current Scriptures may be that old, but no one knows how old the narrative of Job is or the early narratives of Genesis.  

Your argument if of the weakest sort, it is an argument from silence, but don't worry you make up for it with a blistering prejudice and passion.

Answer 6

It was not 3,500 years, it was over 6000 years ago when God Created this earth and mankind.

God walked in the garden of Eden with His newly created man and woman, so they definitely knew Him 6000 years ago.

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Answer 7

No matter how you phrase it, nearly all religion, which all started near the beginning of mankind, has been wrapped around the idea of a main god.

Answer 8

Lots longer than that, but where christianity is concerned and Judaism it is about 4,500 years ago.

Answer 9

If a tree falls in a forest with no one around, does it makes a sound?

It wasn't that there were no gods but that there was only one God. This is what the prophet Moses states in five books 3500 years ago. There were other religions that worshiped gods, but Moses limits the children of Israel (Jacob) to the one God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob: A God who has no beginning or end, an eternal being who created everything that we can observe.

From the earliest of record mankind, you will find men/women dealing with things they cannot observe knowing in the end that all men/women will die. From birth to death is a time given to each person, and with each moment that passes, that moment will never be again. Religion guides us to for the duration and prepares us for the afterlife, if there is an afterlife. Man/woman longs for longer duration and hope for an eternal duration like the God (or gods) that created them.

To say that there is no god requires as much as faith as to say there is a god. Both sayings have no evidence to confirm or deny them.

Answer: Man is a finite being who can understand/imagine the infinite even if the infinite doesn't exist. The past is no more, the future may never be realized, only the present within a finite duration that define our lives exist until we die. Man did not create man, so why would you think man could create God? Remember God is of the living not the dead.

Answer 10

i don't believe in god i worship the earth and believe in witchcraft i am a wiccan and I'm proud of it. but i do believe he existed because roman history records prove it.

Answer 11

the bible says that God is the beginning and the end .. he knows you before you were born . he created the earth and man in 6 days simple math  

Answer 12

so people had to believe in him for him to exist?

since when has the world been like that? I didn't know about the law of conservation of energy til i was 12, so i didn't believe it, but it still existed.

Answer 13

Nobody but God knows the beginning of time.  Was there a beginning of time or has time always existed?  People have a hard time believing in infinity.  Always was, always is and always will be.

Many people chose instead to believe that there is no creator and that there was a massive explosion on this earth and then there was life.

The earth was a giant lifeless junkyard full of rocks and minerals and then there was a big explosion.  When the dust settled there laid a working wristwatch.  That wristwatch crawled out of the dust and over time evolved into a living and breathing clock.  Hard to believe??  

If we evolved from apes, as mans written word says, Darwins, and the small three toed horse, with fossil records, evolved into the large two toed horse that we know today, then why aren't there any three toed horses?  Why are there still apes, of the same species, that we evolved from??

The word,not the written word, started many years ago before the Romans, Greeks, Catholics, Baptists, caveman existed but maybe there was no need for a written word because the people who were here actually walked and talked with God.  

The bible tells you what you need to know for your time here on earth.  The written word says that when we are with him all things will be made known.  

Just for the sake of conversation, forever as far as we know, God could have had many earths before ours always allowing man to have a free will to do what he wanted even though he had talked and walked with him and knew he exsisted.  Man probably destroyed himself by eventually believing that there is no God.  No creator.

In the beginning of our world they knew he existed, but they slowly forgot about him and did or believed whatever they wanted to.

As far as the 12 other deadbeats that were walking around with him, why would the Romans want to mention then in their writings?  They went against the order of things.  Against mans law.

If you read the written word of the bible you will find out that they spent their time doing good for the people and not bowing down to the Roman government.  

Why should the Romans write, into history, about a man and his 12 deadbeats trying to buck the system that THEY had established.

Answer 14

You are a bit generous with the 3500 years, Hebrew culture did not appear in the archeological record until around 3300 years ago and the first books of the Bible were probably written around 2700 years ago.

Edit:

Yes, there have been various deities for over 40,000 years (the earliest evidence of ritualistic behavior is a cave used for ritual in Botswana, dating to around 40,000 to 65,000 years ago.)  However, until fairly recently, humans believed in multiple gods, monotheism is a relatively recent development.

Answer 15

He exists with or without your belief, and has done so for ever. We discover, we don't create.

Answer 16

yeah the people was created more than 3500 yrs ago so it is logical that the people started believing Him on that time...

but the bible mentions that the angels are praising God for uncountable years before adam and eve were created..

Answer 17

If God has a Tardis, that would imply that he also has 2 hearts....hm

Answer 18

people believed in God about 6000 year ago

Answer 19

It was a lot longer ago than that. People have worshiped deities since the beginning of the human race. Oh, and for most of that time, God was a woman.

Answer 20

I'm afraid you are sadly mistaken and only a complete fool would make such a statement without stating His/her source!   I can give you absolute proof though scientific and historical sites that prove you wrong!

Answer 21

People have had some kind of concept of a supreme being for far longer than 3500 years.  Recent archeological findings indicate that so-called cave men had a sense of the divine.