Can our universe be billions of years old and possibly have been created around 13,000 years ago?
→ Yes ←
(This riddle isn’t posted to create a debate. It is here to provoke new thoughts not often contemplated.)
A long time ago, I began wondering why I could not find mention of what seems obvious in regard to how old God created our universe. The focus has been (and still is) on how long ago God created His creation,¹ but NOT on how old He created it.
When God created man [Adam], He formed him from the dust of the ground. Why then is there such a lack of attention placed on the importance of Adam already being an aged man of years when God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life to make him a living soul?
When God created the heaven and the earth, age was built into the package right at the start. God is the author of life. An author of a book does the same thing with his story. He starts off with his characters being a certain age. In this example, both authors are above their creation. They both have the authority to decide how things shall begin and end.
Just because our universe can appear to date billions of years old does not mean that God could not possibly have created it about 13,000 years ago.
If you can’t understand this, then you must be looking at it from the perspective of mankind [natural/nature] rather than God Almighty [super-natural/creator of nature].
¹What exists had to come about somehow or else it wouldn’t exist. Whatever is responsible for creating what is cannot possibly be bound by the laws it created. Whoever makes the laws isn’t bound by the laws; whoever has the authority to create the rules also has the power change the rules.
