Know what .....I am not the one getting hung up on a date, you are. Personally i adhere to the concept that in God's scheme of things there are more important things than whether the Earth was made 6,000 years ago (and I am still waiting for a biblical source from you confirming that), or whether it is much much older than that. And i find it intersting that you are saying it could be plus or minus some years (Whether it is 6000 or 6500 makes little difference ), but that is still being compared to a paradigm that states it took Billions of years. The disparancy between the two is prodigious, hence the 'rounding off' factor may be off by, who knows, several millenia, several thousand millenia .......there is a whole lot of spatial difference between 6,000 and 5-6 billion.
How many times have you read the bible? ----BibleWonk
Funny. I did tell Protest-1 that whenever i question someone about this, asking for biblical proof, they either say some smirky (or at times outrightly vitriolic) comment , or they hush. I guess you must be the former BibleWonk because i do not see how my reading of the Bible pertains to this. And to answer your question, I read it a lot. And not only in the normal translations but in the direct greek and Hebrew translations. And i have never found a place that says the world is 6,000 years old, nor have i found a place that says paying indulgences will lead to salvation, etc etc. And that is why i am asking if YOU have.
If your asnwer is to inquire how many times i've read my bible then i guess your belief in the 6K figure is also based on Archbishop Usher's calculations.
You seem to be the one with the attitude problem.
I read the bible every day. I've read it about 30-40 times. It never ceases to amaze me how many people read it much less and are quite qualified to tell me all about what it means and says.
I already told you where it says the age of the universe. If you are demanding where the number 6000 years is in the bible then you have a serious problem.