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Is earth only 6000 years old?
Posted on 3/31/20 at 10:48 pm
Posted on 3/31/20 at 10:48 pm
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The first genealogy used this way is in Genesis 5. It reports the age of Adam when he fathered his son Seth, then the age of Seth when he fathered his son Enosh, and so on down to Noah who is said to have been 600 at the start of the Flood. If one sees Genesis 1 as a record of six normal days, and the genealogies as relationships without gaps, then it appears one can calculate the time from Creation to the Flood.
The next genealogy using the same pattern is in Genesis 11. Noah’s son Shem is said to have fathered Arpachshad two years after the Flood. The names and ages continue through Terah, the father of Abram, thereby providing a way to calculate the time between the Flood and Abraham’s birth.
From Abraham forward, it is not as simple a process. There are no longer linear genealogies like the ones in Genesis 5 and 11 listing the father’s age at his son’s birth, so one must track down references to ages at significant events, cross-compare, then calculate together. This process takes one from Abraham to David; from David through the kings of Judah to the Exile; and from the Exile to Jesus’ day.
Once this Biblical timeline is established, specific people and events are seen to intersect with other calendars in the ancient world. These can then be matched to an ‘absolute’ astronomical calendar to determine an approximate age for the earth. For instance, the Jewish historian Josephus, writing around 94 A.D., used this process to calculate the age of the earth as approximately 5500 years from the date of his writing in the first century A.D.
Other men in the early church calculated similar ranges, with estimates provided by Cyprian, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexander, Julius Africanus, Hippolytus, Lactantius, Chrysostom, and Augustine. All of them put the creation of the world as less than 6000 years old from the date of their writing (with many approximating it at 5500 BC).
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Posted on 3/31/20 at 10:48 pm to Mud_Till_May
STAHHHHHHP.....
Posted on 3/31/20 at 10:48 pm to Mud_Till_May
Yes.
Posted on 3/31/20 at 10:49 pm to Mud_Till_May
So dinosaurs skeletons were put into the earth by the devil???
Posted on 3/31/20 at 10:51 pm to Mud_Till_May
Everyone knows this
Posted on 3/31/20 at 10:52 pm to Mud_Till_May
Yes. Dinosaurs are just the bones of Leviathan and the rest are fake. Also, earth is flat, heaven is above and hell is underneath.
ETA the fact that this is 6 pages is fricking sad.
ETA the fact that this is 6 pages is fricking sad.
This post was edited on 4/4/20 at 6:44 pm
Posted on 3/31/20 at 10:53 pm to Mud_Till_May
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It reports the age of Adam when he fathered his son Seth, then the age of Seth when he fathered his son Enosh
Who was Enosh’ mom?
Posted on 3/31/20 at 10:55 pm to Mud_Till_May
def closer to 5500 than 6000. 6000 is probably what it would have been ideally but God has to shorten it as stated in His word.
Posted on 3/31/20 at 11:10 pm to Mud_Till_May
Posted on 3/31/20 at 11:13 pm to Mud_Till_May
You serious, Clark ???
Posted on 3/31/20 at 11:22 pm to Mud_Till_May
Earth is 6,000 years old. Always has been, always will be.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 12:00 am to Mud_Till_May
There are a number of empirical proofs of a very very old earth. Certainly you are not serious
Posted on 4/1/20 at 12:03 am to Mud_Till_May
I believe the earth is some 6000 years old as we know mankind to be. I believe the earth to be countless years old...one which was inhabited by all sorts of beings as we know from archeological discoveries.
Mankind is the pinnacle of God's work and was created and placed in perfection...the earth some 6000 years ago.
The Bible is the accounting of God and mankind and not an accounting of God and all His works over the span of time.
Old earth and new earth can co-exist and it is the only rational explanation for those who believe in God and those who don't.
Mankind is the pinnacle of God's work and was created and placed in perfection...the earth some 6000 years ago.
The Bible is the accounting of God and mankind and not an accounting of God and all His works over the span of time.
Old earth and new earth can co-exist and it is the only rational explanation for those who believe in God and those who don't.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 12:21 am to Mud_Till_May
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In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth
2 and the earth was without form or shape, with darkness over the abyss and a mighty wind sweeping over the waters
This occurred prior to the First day. The below occurred on the first day:
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3 Then God said: Let there be light, and there was light.
4 God saw that the light was good. God then separated the light from the darkness.
5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” Evening came, and morning followed—the first day.*
After God created the heavens and the earth(the earth was without form-(not sure what this means exactly), THEN He separated the light from darkness-The First Day. One does not know how long God spent creating the heavens and the earth.
The 6000 years you describe would be how long man has been on earth from Adam/Eve to now. Man was the last creature created. Genesis does not specify the order God created the animals from dinosaurs to dogs. This could have taken an unknown number of years.
Did God create each section in one "earth" day? A day did not exist until light was created. When the heavens and the earth were created it was dark. When God separated the light from darkness, then a "earth" day could exist with a morning/night. God could create things in one day if He chose, but the "day" Genesis refers to could also mean a period of time, not literally one "earth" day.
In Genesis Chapter 1 God is speaking to humans in a way they can understand what he means. He also reinforced the desire He had for man to REST on the sabbath, thus on the 7TH DAY GOD RESTED.
As my young child asked me, "Why did God need to rest? He is God." Of course God did not need a "day" of rest. He was teaching man to rest and used his creation of all things as an example to show the importance of rest.
Physically, man's immune system needs rest. With this COVID19 going around a person must get rest so their immune system can get strong enough to fight the infection.
Fresh water reservoir affects carbon dating, thus since the planet was under water after the flood during Noah's time, carbon dating bones could be impacted. It is obvious that there is scientific data which shows all parts of the world were under water at one time in history. When scientists find archeological sites, they never say if it occurred before/after an earthly flood.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 12:32 am to Mud_Till_May
Posted on 4/1/20 at 12:37 am to Mud_Till_May
People will confuse the age of the earth with the creation of humans. God is not bound by time and Jesus explained a day to God could be like a thousand years. That said, the human population growth after the great flood can be easily proved. Just google human population growth and look for yourself. Most won't, they will only ridicule. Deniers can just post a few graphs to show us wrong.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 1:23 am to Mud_Till_May
In some of the oldest texts of Genesis it says God replenished the earth, not created the earth.
To replenish means something was here before.
To replenish means something was here before.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 1:50 am to Mud_Till_May
It’s 2020 year old duh
Posted on 4/1/20 at 5:37 am to Mud_Till_May
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Is earth only 6000 years old?
No....the period of time between verse 1 and verse 2 in Genesis is unknown
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