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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).
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 10:50 pm to 1BamaRTR
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So dinosaurs skeletons were put into the earth by the devil??
They were buried in the flood is my understanding.
Posted on 3/31/20 at 10:51 pm to 1BamaRTR
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So dinosaurs skeletons were put into the earth by the devil???
According to the ark museum, Noah brought them on the ark
This post was edited on 3/31/20 at 10:52 pm
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 10:56 pm to Mud_Till_May
quote:Many of them, probably most. the rest wound up there probably after man became meat eaters.
They were buried in the flood is my understanding.
Posted on 3/31/20 at 10:56 pm to Esquire
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Who was Enosh’ mom?
Probably your mother considering shes put out for so long.
This post was edited on 3/31/20 at 10:57 pm
Posted on 3/31/20 at 10:57 pm to red sox fan 13
I know you’re kidding but the thing about this place, it’s hard to tell if the rest are actually being serious
Posted on 3/31/20 at 10:58 pm to arcalades
If it were 6000 and each generation lived to be at least 100 that means there is only 60 generations of man living here on the earth right?
Posted on 3/31/20 at 11:07 pm to Mud_Till_May
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If it were 6000 and each generation lived to be at least 100 that means there is only 60 generations of man living here on the earth right
Yes, assuming everyone birthed their offspring at the age of 100
Posted on 3/31/20 at 11:13 pm to Mud_Till_May
You serious, Clark ???
Posted on 3/31/20 at 11:20 pm to Mud_Till_May
Why does God hate the T-Rex?
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