This is a non issue—nowhere in scripture does it say how old we’re supposed to think the earth is.
Agreed. Although I might agree with Mr. Robertson on the age of the earth, as a “teacher” he should be more considerate of other Christians who have arrived at a different conclusion.
My wife is a young-earth Creationist and I am an old-earth Creationist that finds no reason that God couldn’t use any process he darn well chooses to create. My wife and I agree to disagree because this is not an fundamental element of the faith.
Exactly. Humans cannot even begin to fathom the greatness of our maker, the one and only God. I do not know if the Earth is 6,000 years old, 6 million years old, or 6 trillion years old. The only thing I do know is that this complex world did spontaneously combust and voila man was created. Only the hands of my God could have created this magnificent universe we live in and there may be many more thousands of universes. And my God sent his son to this Earth two thousand years ago so that I could be forgiven and someday live in the Kingdom of Heaven and then see the greatness of my God. And no one can convince me otherwise.
Was there death before sin?
Did sin enter the world through one man?
If you allegorize sin, do you allegorize salvation?
Amen. ANd i think there might be a place, maybe even two, in the Bible where lessons are taught thru parable. Yet people think the 6,000 year figure (which as you noted doesn’t exist) HAS to be true.
Adding up the generations from Adam, assuming there are none skipped, gives the 6000 year figure.
It'll be an issue after the primaries when everyone with an (R) after their name will field questions from the media on how old they think the earth is.
The "crazy creationist" strategy is designed to turn off educated, suburban voters from Republican candidates. Why do you think we've been hearing so much about creationism lately? Democrats were hoping for an easy Senate win in Georgia over the issue but it doesn't look like that's going to happen.