Where does the Bible say the Earth & Universe is only 6,000 years old?
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If you narrowly and mindlessly trace back the events in the Bible, and insist that a “day” is only a 24 hour period (which even the Bible says it isn’t), then yes, the Earth and the Universe is only 6,000 and some years old. I’m sure there are even more misguided calculations that say the Universe began on Monday, April xx, 6xxx BC. At 6:00 am, EST.
Pure Creationism is unfortunately misguided. Ken Ham did a horrendous job of representing the Biblical viewpoint in his debate with Bill Nye.
Read “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist” by Dr. Norman Geisler.
Intelligent Design (which is completely Biblical and completely scientific) is where it’s at. Which is why the unbelievers wanted to debate Ken Ham instead.
How old was Adam when he was created?
Or do you reject the idea that Adam was a real person?
God Himself comes down to Earth, chooses to speak in parables, and people STILL don’t get it.
“If you narrowly and mindlessly trace back the events in the Bible, and insist that a “day” is only a 24 hour period (which even the Bible says it isn’t), then yes, the Earth and the Universe is only 6,000 and some years old. I’m sure there are even more misguided calculations that say the Universe began on Monday, April xx, 6xxx BC. At 6:00 am, EST.”
Misguided calculations like the traditional Hebrew calendar, which gives nearly the same date range as Usher’s calculation?
I just find it funny that so many Christians seem so quick to scurry and line up behind the wisdom of the world if there might be a conflict with the Word of God, and the traditional reading thereof, when it comes to this one point.
You don’t see that reaction so much when it comes to other issues, at least not yet. Who knows, though? Maybe in a few years we will be lucky enough to have people coming around telling us that it’s only a narrow, mindless reading of the Bible that could arrive at the conclusion that two men can’t marry, or that murder is murder whether the child has been delivered or not.