why we are so sure about Satan being the first one who completes magnum opus? He is 500.000 years old but the universe is 13 billion years old and very huge. 13 billion years... what if there are other gods maybe more powerful, somewhere so far away from us?
Someone out there is a billionaire, but a child still loves their father who provided, instead of the "billionaire" that was wasting it on blow or is just sitting there looking at an LCD panel all day.
The 500,000 years old figures, are just children explanations for the utmost basic level that is presented in some parts of the JoS, to just give a perspective. 1 year in the developmental cycle of the Gods, can equal a million in our own, based on our present scale of evolutionary process.
6 weeks on the level of the Gods, would equate millions of years versus monkey level based evolution. Time is analogous and a metric for input, not for development. There is not even a comparison to compare to. The 500,000 years of an incarnated deity, are not 500,000 years of weed, netflix and limited perceptions.
In human terms, one might now be incarnated and be 50 years old. However, as a spiritual entity, they might be around for 3000 years. Given reincarnation exists in our case, this creates a gap between it all, but the Gods do not have that gap, since they are above the evolutionary level of having to reincarnate.
A virus, might be existing somewhere, for even thousands of years. It can be hundreds of years old, but that does not mean it surpasses an evolving human on earth for the same time scale. The 80 years of a virus and the 80 year cycle for a human are drastically different.
500,000 years for a God should be compared to the highest AI technology that has increased it's existence exponentially over a figure they just give us for linear referrence, ie, 500,000 years old. Granted our present day AI can absorb knowledge that a billion years of monkey time, wouldn't be able to do in 1 day of human time, that should give some perspective.
Lastly, the universe has no beginning or end, it's just the present "saga" as we materially recognize it that has an X amount of time, which is a form of speculation on our behalf, based on our limited means of scientific observation. The theory of the age of the universe is based on present day observation of the material universe, the stars and the cycle of the objects in the heavens, what we can see either with a telescope or speculate based on what we observe.
Everything I write above will become clearer to everyone as they meditate and expand their consciousness. Eventually in that context 500,000 years can be beyond imagination past a point, so numbers become irrelevant.
Some Eastern texts like those in Hinduism, mention things that the Gods are like 126,000,000,000,000 years old in "years". These extreme numbers are to show the impossible to comprehend level of difference. These are to expand the mind and make us understand that there are many more things in existence than what we see.
A human in the present day development cycle on earth, could live for 2 million years and still be nothing compared to another level of scale of evolution. It's all about how this relative form of time is used.