When were they created?

There are difference of opinion on the time of the creation of the sons of God.  While it is certain that they were created prior to Adam it is not sure whether it was done during the seven days of creation or prior to it.  One group believes that this creation was before the Human Age which started with the recreation of an already turned sour. 

The basic teaching of the Bible is that we create our own cosmos.  New laws of material nature bringing in the disorder, decay and death were the result of the evil that came into the lives of Adam and  Eve.  So Paul says:

Rom 6:23  For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (It is on this premise the whole gospel hinges)

 1Co 15:21  For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead

Jam 1:14  but each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.

Jam 1:15  Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin; and sin when it is full-grown brings forth death.

 

Now going back to Genesis creation story Young’s literal translation reads like this:

 

Gen 1:1-2 YLT  In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth--  (2)  the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness is on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters,

 

The implication here is that the story of creation in Genesis was not the original creation but a preparation for something new.

 

Gen 1:1-2 KJV+  In the beginning7225 God430 created1254, 853 the heaven8064 and853 the earth776.  (2)  And the earth776 was1961 without form8414, and void922; and darkness2822 was upon the face6440 of the deep8415. And the Spirit7307 of God430 moved7363 upon5921 the face6440 of the waters4325.

The numbers are Strong’s dictionary numbers which will give the insight

1961  hayah  haw-yaw
a primitive root (compare 1933); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary):--beacon, X altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, + follow, happen, X have, last, pertain, quit (one-)self, require, X use.

 

This clearly points to an earlier fall.

 

1961  hayah  haw-yaw
a primitive root (compare 1933); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary):--beacon, X altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, + follow, happen, X have, last, pertain, quit (one-)self, require, X use.

 

922  bohuw  bo'-hoo

 from an unused root (meaning to be empty); a vacuity, i.e. (superficially) an undistinguishable ruin:--emptiness, void.

 

 

 

Issiah declares that when God created the world he did not create it a chaos.

 

 

Isa 45:18 KJV+  For thus saith559 the LORD3068 that created1254 the heavens8064; God430 himself that formed3335 the earth776 and made6213 it; he hath established3559 it, he created1254 it not in vain8414, he formed3335 it to be inhabited3427: I am the LORD3068; and there is none else.

 

8414  tohuw  to'-hoo

from an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain:--confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.

 

The argument is that between the initial creation of the cosmos and the recreation of it starting in Gen. 1:1 something must have happened which caused the chaos of the cosmos.  Since God could not create a chaotic cosmos, it must have been forced onto by the onset of Sin by the Sons of God.

 

The alternative approach of others assume that the Gen 1:1 is the beginning of the creation when God was forming the cosmos and the initial voidity does not refer to a chaos or to deficiency of the nature.  But he created so that the cosmos will go from order to a higher order.  In that case the creatures within the heavens were  created during the seven day creation. 

 

Gen 2:1-2 RSV  Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.  (2)  And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

 

Hence in this interpretation the heavenly host were also created on the sixth day and the final creation as the  crowning glory was Adam.

Whatever the time of creation of these Sons of God  was they were there already when man came into the scene.