Christians think it's about 10,000 years and scientists think it's millions of years old . Why the differences? ( As a Christian, I especially want the Christian view ).
2006-09-11 13:13:15 · 7 answers · asked by Hope 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The belief of the age of the earth differs because Christians mostly believe in creation and atheists believe in evolution. With creation, the entire earth WAS created in six days and God rested on the seventh. But with evolution it would take so much longer for the earth to evolve, therefore atheists reason that the earth is that much older, because it is the only way evolution would work. So atheists believe the earth is millions of years old to support their theory. And Christian believe the earth is only a few thousand years old because the timeline in the Bible supports the age of the earth.
2006-09-11 13:22:44 · answer #1 · answered by girlshadow212 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Except in the United States, the above statement is false. Within the United States, it is only a small minority of Christians who believe the young Earth theory.
Literal belief in scripture is an untenable belief system. You have to be selectively literal to pull it off because the bible is factually in error in too many places. There are people who have spent quite a bit of time cataloging them. Gallileo was put on trial for proving the scriptures were false.
The doctrine of sola scriptura was invented in the sixteenth century. Not only would no Christian prior to that have accepted it, you can find many early Christians who would have vehemently opposed it. The literalism is not linked to Christianity, it is linked as the rational extreme of Protestantism.
Not too long ago, Scott Hahn a leading Protestant theologian began looking for support for sola scriptura and determined it did not exist. He ultimately became Catholic, the more he studied scripture.
The age of the Earth problem is a Protestant problem alone and only a problem of a small segment of Protestants. Catholics, Orthodox and the old Protestant churches don't have that problem. Without scripture alone as a doctrine, the problem isn't a problem anymore.
2006-09-11 13:38:15 · answer #2 · answered by OPM 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The scientists know that the actual evidence indicates the earth is much older than the biblical literalists claim. Christians who think the bible is the word of god are therefore obliged to close their eyes to the facts and disagree with people who actually know what they're talking about.
2006-09-11 15:01:23 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well there are many views
1 view is the world is but 6000 years old
2 view is the world is about 12000 years old
3 the third view is I'm not sure older than 1mil.
all three are christian views which is true!
I will not destroy the view of the Church, but
the first is weak, able only to understand as read!
the second is healthy, able to understand that a day to God is 1000 years to man
the third is deep, having wisdom, that between Gen1:1 and Gen 1:2 may be as much as 4 mil years!
2006-09-11 16:36:53 · answer #4 · answered by Grandreal 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Gen.1:1,2; All exist here and the time is not given, it is evident of billions in time.
John 3:16; For God so loved the world [ WORLD ]. that he gave his only begotton son, that who so ever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. John 17:3,5,24; Jesus was with God before the world was. Job 38:4-7 the angels saw it all.
Day one to day five and most of day six had passed when Adam was created.
Psm.77:5; Eph.3:4,5; Col.1:26,27 are of ages past.
Ages to come Eph.2:7,21; Rev.20:1-6;
The age of the earth [ after Gen,1:1,2; from 1:3-31 is 41,870 to Eden began age of world, age of earth continues, so the age of the world from Eden, is different from age of earth. 1Cor.15:22; As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. This is in reference to the world.
As far as Heavens and earth at Eden, 2Pet.3:13; Isa.45:18; 65:17; 66:1,22; Rev.21:1-5;
there will be a new heavens and a new earth. This is the bible information on the subject. Matt.24:3,7,14,15,22,34,36,-38 [ ONLY GOD KNOWS DAY AND HOUR ]; Satan is out and Jesus is in, at his second coming.
So Gen.1:1,2 billions and Gen.1:3-31 41,870 and Gen.2:2,4; Heb.4:1-11 to Rev.17:10-14[ #1 to #5, Rome #6 and Jesus, #7 and bible on soil and rule on soil never before is 8th of the #7 whole for Satan in world ]; ends 6,130 to Rev.20:1-6; 1000 year reign of Jesus ]; The bible does cover this 7,130 years to mean all is new and perfect at 49,000 years. READY FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
2006-09-11 13:20:38 · answer #5 · answered by jeni 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
because it took longer than 10,000 years for the earth to be formed and for life to first appear (by life i mean prokaryotic bacteria cells) and scientists don't believe that it was millions of years ago but 4.6 billion years ago
2006-09-11 13:21:11 · answer #6 · answered by crl_hein 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
The actual scientific data suggests a young earth age.
Christian scientists agree with the data.
It's not so much that Evolutionists can't agree with the data, it's that Evolutionists simply cannot grasp anything past the Natural.
"If it's here, it evolved!"
2006-09-11 13:19:15 · answer #7 · answered by azar_and_bath 4 · 1⤊ 5⤋