43. I replied, “But couldn't you have created all human beings, those of the past, the present, and the future, so that they would all live at the same time? In that way, you could have had your final judgement sooner.”
44. He answered, “The creation cannot move faster than the Creator. And besides, the world wouldn't have been able to hold all the people if everyone had been created at the same time.”
45. “Why, then,” I asked, “did you tell me just now that one day you would bring back to life at the same time every creature that ever lived? If the world can hold them all then, it can hold them now.”
46. He answered, “That would be like asking a woman who has given birth to ten children why she didn't have them all at once, instead of one at a time.”
47. “That would be impossible,” I answered. “She can't have them all at once.”
48. “In the same way,” he continued, “I have made the world like a womb so that it produces human beings at regular intervals.
49. The rule that neither a young child nor an old woman can give birth to a baby also applies to the world that I have created.”
50. Then I said, “Since you have brought up the subject, may I ask if the world you have been talking about is still young or is it approaching old age?”
51. He replied, “You can learn the answer from any woman who has given birth to several children.
52. Ask her why her younger children do not grow as tall as her older children.
53. She will tell you that those born when she was young and healthy are much stronger than those born when she was getting old and becoming weak.
54. You will notice that you are smaller than people of earlier generations;
55. those who come later will be smaller still. This shows you that creation is already getting old and losing the strength of her youth.”
56. “If you please, Lord,” I asked, “will you show me the one through whom you will bring judgement on your creation?”