Do Semitic religions believe that creation happened 6000 years ago as other adherents claim ?

Question

Or is it only a few who believe this ?
St. Augustine recognized in about A.D. 400 that the literal interpretation of the Genesis story of creation taking place over six days involved a theological error requiring reinterpretation. He realized that if the creative act of God brought time and space into being, then the act of creation of time could not be in time and the act of creation of space could not be in space, but must transcend them. Then by this logic, how would anyone interpret the Bible as saying creation happened 6000 years ago ?

Answer 1

If they "KNOW" that Jesus is "GOD" and Jesus was on the earth for 33 years, then we know about how long the Genesis day was, or else it would have been mentioned somewhere in the NT. They add up every name in the OT. With Average Life-spans -- say 40-60 years. They then estimate that it is about 6000 years old.

When anyone reads GEOLOGY, we read the universe is 13.7 billion years old, the Earth is about 4.5 Billion years old, but Geology isn't accompanied by Genesis. How could anyone still believe in the OLD and OLDER testament, it was written by man.

Fuzzy Logic doesn't work.

I find each new discovery of primative human fossils in Africa interesting. Most prove that the human species 1. Evolved 2. that humans have been here longer than 6000 years.

Answer 2

Young Earth creationism is a religious doctrine which teaches that the Earth and life on Earth were created by a direct action of God relatively recently (about 6,000 to 10,000 years ago). It is generally held by those Christians and Jews who believe that the ancient Hebrew text of Genesis is a literal account of historical events, that evidence for a strictly factual interpretation of the text is present in the world today, and that scientific evidence does not support Darwinian evolution or geological uniformitarianism.

Many of its adherents are active in the development of Creation Science, a creationist endeavor that holds that the events associated with supernatural creation can be evidenced and modeled through an interpretation of the scientific method. There is no support for a "young Earth" theory in professional science journals or among professional science organizations.

Some young earth creationists claim that this view has its earliest roots in Judaism, citing for example, the commentary on Genesis by Ibn Ezra (c. 1089–1164), who believed the Genesis days were 24 hour periods.[1] The first-century Jewish historian Josephus may also have accepted a six-day creation and young earth. Dr. Shai Cherry of Vanderbilt University points out in his Introduction to Judaism class that Jews traditionally have not viewed the creation "day" ("yom") of Genesis as a solar day. Philo of Alexandria also indicates that the days were considered to be other than solar days. Although the Reformation hermeneutic inclined some of the Reformers and later Protestants toward an ordinary day, younger-earth view, the majority of the early Church Fathers including Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Origen, Augustine, Eusebius, and Basil did not believe the Genesis account depicted ordinary solar days.

For much of the history of Christianity, the majority viewpoint in the absence of scientific evidence to contradict it was that the universe was made by a rational Creator; this viewpoint was held by many of the founders of modern science, such as Copernicus, Kepler, Faraday, Galileo, Maxwell, Newton, Boyle, Pascal and Nicholas Steno. However, the development of scientific methods of enquiry, and the discovery that geological strata and fossil sequences provided no evidence for a universal deluge soon produced a decline in the scientific belief in Young Earth Creationism.

So yes only "young earth creationists" believe that.

Answer 3

Eons ago (can't find the number -- if you know, please answer) the age of the earth was 'determined' by adding up the ages of people from the Torah and Histories. It was a reasonable attempt at science/history to the best of their cultural capacity AT THAT TIME.

Since then, most Jews no longer see the 6000 year as literal. You'll find much more of that in some sects of Christianity.

Answer 4

What seems like a day to us could actually be millions of years. God knows things we don't. Just because things appear a certain way to humans does not make it so. Here's an example: from Earth when you look up at the sky the sun and moon look like they're about the same size but in reality the sun is way way way bigger.

Answer 5

Islam does not say that creation happened 6000 years ago.

Answer 6

I think it's actually only a few who adhere to the young earth belief...

Answer 7

I am Christian and I know the earth is 4.6 billion years old.

Answer 8

There are actualy allot of proof for the earth being 6000 years old, but its being surpressed by science because of that stupid evolution theory claiming the earth is BILLIONS of years old

Answer 9

take a look at this you may get your answer

Answer 10

no