the biblical record shows an earth roughly 6000 years old. The proof for that is here tp://home1.gte.net/bridavis/timeline.htm. I know the reasoning behind that old, old. misnomer. Don't believe everything you read, my friend.
It assumes that Adam & Eve were the first people on Earth. The Bible clearly states in Genesis that on the sixth day God created "all races"
(And no, a day isn't one of our days and it isn't a thousand years. think of "day" as a time period. Read ALL of 2nd Peter, ch2, I think it's vers 2 & 3, and also remember that thousand was the largest difinitive number they had in those days)
On the eigth time period he created Adam & Eve. Which answers the question: Where did Cain get his wife? Clearly stated he went to the land of Nod, east of Eden.
but if you believe that website, how could that be?
Hope this helps.
The Bible clearly states in Genesis that on the sixth day God created "all races"
No, actually, the Bible states in Genesis 1:27 -
So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 'Man' can be interpreted as either mankind (in which case, it doesn't specify how many humans God created at first. Could have been 2, could have been 1000. It would refer to the start of the being called 'man'). Or it can be interpreted as the first man, Adam, a distinct human. Is there any context further on to provide a more accurate distinction of what, or who, God created? There is, in Genesis 2:7-8 -
7: And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. 8: And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. Note verse 7 provides the event of man's creation. It can be taken as general mankind, or specific man. Verse 8 however provides us with the clue we need to intrepret it correctly:
.. and there he put the man. It tells us that 'man' is a very specific being, literally Adam. So what, or who, did God create when He created man? The answer would be a single man, Adam.
think of "day" as a time period
We could do that, but each 'time period' in Genesis is augmented by a very specific time span, and each 'time period' recieves the same time span:
And the evening and the morning were the first day. In the passage, evening is
`ereb [Strong's 0615], which means a literal evening/night/sunset (as in, after the sun's gone down), and has no other stated meaning. Day is
boqer [Strong's 01242], and means the end of night, comming of daylight, etc., which is a literal day (when the sun is up), and has no other stated meaning (except for
of bright joy after night of distress, which has no context here).
So we have 7 time periods, with 6 distinct seperations, all of which have the same seperation (evening and morning), which terms specifically, and explicitly, denote a time period of no sun, and sun (24 hour days). How do you get your interpretation of anything different (which the passages leave little (or no) space to work around)?
-The Hajman-