God created it a little over 6000 years ago. All the evidence we need is in the Bible.
I agree. God exists outside of the time dimension, therefore he can insert anything within a period of 6000 yrs.
God did indeed create the universe. I love it when science seems to confirm something we already knew by faith.
For instance, the medical community agrees that the ideal time to circumsize a male is on the 8th day, just as God said. The kosher diet is another example.
Many pysicists are ultimately led to the conclusion that there must have been a creator.
Ho boy.
Christianity pretty much outlines the requirements to blaze a positive path into the afterlife.
Modern Christianity - Accept Christ as your personal savior, repent of your sins, and become born again—The assumed aftermath of which is to live your life in a way that glorifies God and honors Christ’s sacrifice.
Other Christianity - Same as above but due X amount of good stuff too.
Catholicism - Same as the above two, but don’t commit this sin or that sin and make sure you tell your Priest what you did wrong so you can atone for it.
I can’t think of any off the top of my head that says “Interpreting the universe as 6000 years old and refusing to accept the possibility that God’s word uses metaphor and analogy on occasion to make a point” as a pre-requisite.
Sure, the Universe could be only 6000 years old, but it certainly doesn’t look that way. Of course, an all-powerful God could have created the universe in-situ and already aged, just like Christ turned water into already-fermeted grape-juice, but it’s just as possible that He didn’t.
In the end, arguing over this is just like any other internet debate - And even worse in a conservative forum because what it does is takes a group of people who should be united in purpose and injects a scism. A reason to NOT be united.
And for what? Does God give you more stuff when you die if you argue an opposing viewpoint on the age of the universe into submission?
Believe what you want, let others believe what they want, and turn all that confrontational energy into restoring this great nation into a God-fearing one...Even if half of it believes in an 8 billion-year-old universe that exists by divine fiat and the other half believes in a 6000-year-old-one created in the same manner.
Where does the 6000 years come from?
Many are mistaken that tracing generations in Genesis to Adam yields the number of years to creation. It does not, it yields the number of years to Adam’s expulsion from the Garden, a place where he and Eve were immortal beings, perhaps for billions of years inside the Garden.
We have no way of tracing the number of years to creation via the Bible. Many who have tried have been grossly mistaken.
And some so-called Chriatian societies that have in the past espoused a 6000 year or so old Earth made wrong assumptions and were clearly wrong, as much as they were wrong about the Earth as the center of the universe.
Human folly, even those that profess a belief in Christ, is universal. It does not make the truth of Christ’s purpose any less real that his followers can be so deeply flawed in character and thinking, even in professing a 6000 year old Earth. In fact it is expected that humanity will continue to err regardless of religious convictions, and it is expected that those blessed with wisdom will continue to wake up to the truth of Christ.
God created it a little over 6000 years ago. All the evidence we need is in the Bible.
And who creasted God? I think its Super God
or maybe mans brain.
If you think the universe is only 6000 years old, you’re living in the Stone Age.
The only acceptable conclusion is that if you rely only on internal Biblical material you can never come up with 6000 years, or even 198 years ~ you must first draw upon "manmade" techniques, to wit, addition.
The timeline of the creation story is not to be taken literally. All the evidence we need is found all around us. Heck, you just need to look up at the night sky.
Well, unless you think those lights are pin pricks in a dark veil.
You joined FR to make fun of the Bible?
By taking the Bible literary and trying to make the Bible a book of science rather a book of faith you are only acting as a lunatic or as someone who is on purpose doing so to give Christians a bad name.
I agree.
Much Science supports a young Earth. No humans were there to tell us for sure.
I believe the Word of God over the guesses of men.
Both work for me, relativistically. Yet the picture (Hubble) seems pretty clear extending ~12 billion years, which makes God and His ways all the more interesting.
Biblical law in tension with Biblical narrative.
No.