Quote:It's possible because sometimes the Creator likes to do things gradually and sometimes He likes to do them more quickly. His plans are too subtle for us to comprehend.
Ah....and he told you this?
Perhaps you can tell me why Celsus, a second century Greco-Roman philosopher has a somewhat loftier view of 'god' than you do?
Quote:"God does not inflict correction on the world as if he were some unskilled laborer who is incapable of building something properly the first time around; God has no need to purify what he has built by means of a flood or a conflagration (as they teach)."