Do Chistians really believe everything began 6000 years ago?

Question

I'm not a Christian myself but out of curiosity I heard somewhere that Christians believe that everything, like Adam Eve, the universe etc, started 6000 years ago.. is that true? That's like saying the earth is flat... do they really think that?? I always had high regard for Christianity but if this is the case I'd have a whole different point of view

Answer 1

Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth is therefore as old as the heavens, including the universe. The 6,000 years are reckoned from Gen 2:2. The Bible is silent about what happened before 6,000 years. The earth is more than 6,000 years old as explained herein.

Answer 2

Well, I don't believe that everything started 6000 years ago. Obviously, God is eternal, so that's not when He started. And He had to live somewhere before that, so that must not be when heaven started. Nor even did the earth start then, for, as it says in Genesis:

"And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Gen. 1:2

This is BEFORE God spoke anything new into existence on the earth. So the elements, the water, was there already. However, life did not exist here on this planet before that. That is why the text says the earth was "void" meaning empty. No creatures were here before creation week.

If you study the time line carefully from the Bible, it becomes clear that creation week could not have been much over 6000 ago. I have heard that scientists who are studying DNA also have confirmed that at some point in recent history, they say about 4000 years ago, I think, that we all have a common ancestor. That's about when the flood happened, though. So science can often be right, but the interpretation of the science is where errors can be introduced.

Answer 3

uhhh

You "heard somewhere".

Scholars and Science used to believe that the Earth started 6,000 years ago...

I don't think many Christians believe that the universe started 6,000 years ago, but it isn't an essential point of the religion. It is a matter of opinion. Since no one empircally knows anything about the beginning of the universe, anyone could be right.

So it isn't a CHRISTIAN MATTER.

The Bible doesn't say how long Adam and Eve were in the Garden or how long it took Adam to name the animals and when eve was made... So in fact it could have been a really really long time.

Also, it isn't as if science is always right, the veiws and understanding is always changing, so let's not set them up as being more correct than anything or anyone else has been.

Answer 4

If you take the Bible literally, that is the dating that you come up with. Why would God need any more time than that? IT is evolution that needs more time. You think about it, what real proof do you have that the world is billions of years old? Evolution starts out with the assumption that it is, and so they say that fossils are that old, but what real proof do they have. To prove something you need two independent sources of evidence. If you don't have that your reasoning is circular always going back to the same source. So evolution uses dating methods which they relate to Darwins charts, but he based his charts on theory. So you say these rocks are x years old, because we find certain fossils in them, and the fossils are x years old because we find them in these rocks. And all of it is based on preconceived charts. You don't really have the evidence that you think, but you have been taught this since you were born, and obviously no one has ever taught the creastion account since you are just finding out about that now. Take a look at the creation perspective before you condemn it as another "earth is flat" idea.

Answer 5

Actually, it is more like 11,000 years ago, as one day for God equals 1000 years for man.

Evolution is still a theory based on theoretical models. Even Radiometric Dating is based on a theory, but not on observed facts. It is ineffective on anything claimed to be less than 1 million years old. How is it that we have fossils from 1 million years ago, but not 6000 years ago? As for the close to human skulls, they can be as likely the skulls of the children of the fallen angels, who were born from the combining of genetic material of an energy based being with a human being.

Answer 6

Yes, some christians do believe that the world is only 6,000 years old. They believe that the world was created in 6 24 hour literal days. They are a bit comfused. But they aren't in the majority.

Answer 7

funny thing is a freak/monk actually decided to go hell with carbon testing by computing the years according to the Bible (the Holy Book of Christians). and so came the 6000 BC crap. But it's like an eon ago that that crap was formulated. Now no such sane 2007 Christian would believe such crap. and i believe that the person who formulated the carbon testing procedure (the thing they do to determine the age of a living or was a living thing) was a Chritian himself.

Answer 8

Arguing about how old the earth is evades the real question. The question is: Who is Jesus? Is He Who He claimed to be??? What you gonna do about Him???
That is the question.
But it is also time for you to take off the blinders. What real evidence is there for this "billions" and "billions" of years old earth??? Look deeper. Where and how did it all start. Big Bang??? What was before Big Bang??? Even scientist admit that the is no scientific explanation for "before" Big Bang (not that it is true science either.) So, you got any answers???
I now refer back to the first paragraph of my answer. What you gonna do with Jesus???

Answer 9

No. I'm a Christian and I don't believe that. To be perfectly honest, I don't know when things began. I wasn't there. It could have been twelve billion years ago, or it could have been 20,000 years ago. Who cares WHEN it started? All that should matter is HOW it started.
We'll never know exactly when it began.

Answer 10

in accordance to scientists the worid is 14 billion years old and the panorama exchange into formed over thousands and thousands of years .this would not contrdict the bible ,besides the undeniable fact that which says that the international exchange into created in 7 days.Stephen Hawking, accepted with the 'vast bang concept' reported that element is non-linear.He recieved an award from the previous due Pope for bringing technological know-how and faith nearer mutually.The bible additionally states in the eyes of God "one thousand years have been as the day earlier in the present day".that's manifested in the vast bang concept.