What did God do before he created Earth?

Nothing. Nothing. Since the world was created out of nothing (ex nihilo), nothingness prevailed. Therefore God was idling, just existing, perhaps contemplating creation.

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What did God created before the first day?

in the beginning - God started creation. the first day - light was created. the second day - the sky was created. the third day - dry land, seas, plants and trees were created.

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What was created by God in the beginning?

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

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Does God have a beginning?

"It is very hard to understand how God can have no beginning and no end," says Marci, 9. "But here's the trick: God is everlasting. He can keep on making the days and live through every one of them. He can never die."

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Who created the God?

No one created God. God got created as the universe grew and changes. God is the cumulative energy of the universe. So, infact universe created God.

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What was God doing before He created the Universe?

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Who is the 1st god in the world?

Brahma is the first god in the Hindu triumvirate, or trimurti. The triumvirate consists of three gods who are responsible for the creation, upkeep and destruction of the world. The other two gods are Vishnu and Shiva. Vishnu is the preserver of the universe, while Shiva's role is to destroy it in order to re-create.

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Who is the 1st person in the world?

ADAM1 was the first man. There are two stories of his creation. The first tells that God created man in his image, male and female together (Genesis 1: 27), and Adam is not named in this version.

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What is the age of God?

They could tell us at least when figurines of gods and cave paintings appeared. I guess not earlier than 200,000 years ago. I'd even say there was no God before the end of the Neolithic age, and that means God is roughly 7,000 years old.

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Does the Bible say about dinosaurs?

There are later descriptions of creatures in the Bible that could be referring to dinosaurs. One example is the behemoth of Job 40:15-19. Even in fairly modern history there are reports of creatures which seem to fit the description of dinosaurs.

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Why did God created all?

God brought the world into existence and as the capstone of this good work, he created people in his image so that they could share in his overflowing love, grace and goodness through their relationships with the Trinity. God did not need the world or need people because God has no lack.

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What did God think of his own work?

God rejoices in his works because his works are an expression of his glory. This is what Psalm 19 makes very clear: The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.

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What language did Jesus speak?

Most religious scholars and historians agree with Pope Francis that the historical Jesus principally spoke a Galilean dialect of Aramaic. Through trade, invasions and conquest, the Aramaic language had spread far afield by the 7th century B.C., and would become the lingua franca in much of the Middle East.

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What year was God dead?

Is God Dead?: TIME's Iconic Cover at 50. Don Hamilton remembers the day well. This was back in 1966. He was 12 when a classmate asked him the question: “Does your father think that God is dead?” Hamilton had to admit that the answer was yes.

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Who is Gods wife?

God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshipped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar. In 1967, Raphael Patai was the first historian to mention that the ancient Israelites worshipped both Yahweh and Asherah.

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How tall is God?

This looks like one of those unanswerable questions, but it turns out that the Mormons – and the leaders of the American "Prosperity Gospel" movement – believe they know the answer: God is about 6' 2" tall.

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How long is a year for God?

Discussion. In scripture, Prophetic Years of 360 days instead of normal years of 365 days has been interpreted as being equal to prophetic months of 30 days or years.

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How many years old is Jesus?

Jesus died at the age of 33. For us that seems rather early and at the prime of life for many. Have you ever wondered why 33? Numbers in the Bible usually have significant meaning.

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What year was the first person born?

The First Humans

One of the earliest known humans is Homo habilis, or “handy man,” who lived about 2.4 million to 1.4 million years ago in Eastern and Southern Africa.

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How old is the first person on earth?

The oldest skeleton discovered of our species Homo sapiens (so far) is from Morocco and is about 300,000 years old. This ancestor of ours would have lived at the same time as other members of the human family, including Neanderthals and Denisovans.

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How did the first person get on earth?

The first human ancestors appeared between five million and seven million years ago, probably when some apelike creatures in Africa began to walk habitually on two legs. They were flaking crude stone tools by 2.5 million years ago. Then some of them spread from Africa into Asia and Europe after two million years ago.

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