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Originally Posted by kevinvw
Not in excruciating detail, but according to Gen 2:1 and Exo 20:11 they were all created during the six day period. Job 38:4-7 says these angelic beings were here at the creation of the earth, so logic would tell us that they were created on the first day just before God created the earth.
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No, your assumption tells you that, not logic. Within your paradigm of belief you have God inhabiting eternity past by himself and without anything material existing. Then one day God decides to create a cheering section (Sons of God), then He decides He needs cheerleaders (Cherubim, etc), then immediately creates a whole physical universe of dark inanimate matter and water, spends the next 4 days getting the form and shape just right, then two more days populating it with critters, including "Man" who was made a "little lower" (see Psalm 8:5, Heb 2:7, & 2,9) than the Sons of God He just created six days earlier. He then throws in Lucifer and legions of Devils, who immediately turn evil and decide to trick and deceive the Man. And God said THIS was good? Nonsense!
But that is exactly what you are advocating, if you look at your "logic."
The Bible says in Matthew 25:41 "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire,
prepared for the devil and his angels:"
Hell fire was originally made for the
Devil and his Angels, NOT man. And the Earth was originally a place made for the habitation of the Angels. That world ended. Not immediately (when Lucifer rebelled and a third of the angels with him), but over the course of millions of years of death, violence, geologic upheaval, asteroid impacts, disease and starvation, the evidence of which history is preserved for us, in stone, by nothing less than God's will.
God created the present world for Man (who He made a little lower than those Angels).