According to the Bible, how old is the earth?

Answer 1

There's an example that Richard Dawkins uses for this question. The Biblical claim is that the earth is roughly 6,000 years old; the scientific claim (you know, the accurate one) is that the earth is 4.6 billion years old. To demonstrate how that's not just a mere error, that's the equivalent of saying that the distance between New York and San Francisco is something like 90 yards. I might have that figure wrong but it's something like that. That's how ridiculous that estimate is.

Answer 2

Wow! The bible lists the lineage from Adam and Eve to Jesus. If you add up all those begettings and ages listed it will equal about 4,000 years and that was 2,000 years ago. -

However, that does not tell us how old the Earth is. The creation story came in the 1st 5 stages before Adam and eve. Moses used the term days, which was clear in those days because it meant stages or periods of time.

However, today people think of a day as a 24 hour period. So they say that the Earth is 6,000 years old plus 7 days or plus 6 days.

The Bible does not deny that there were hominids before during and after Adam and Eve were created by God. Nor, does it say that they were the first human like people on this earth.

In fact do you remember that the sons of Adam married the daughters of man (Hominids).

To understand the creation story you need to think:

What words could God use to explain to Moses how God made this Planet inhabitable and implant a soul (free will and abstract reasoning into a hominid and call him Adam (Adam in Hebrew mean small particles or "atoms") ... and then to clone Adam and create Eve.

Oh well, the Bible is a lot of things, but it is not a way to determine the age of the Earth.

PS: In my day, I was a good dancer. Does that mean that I was only a good dancer for 24 hours sometime in the past.

Answer 3

Genesis 1:1 In the Beginning GOD created the heavans and the earth. The Key word is beginning, sure the bible only records since adam and eve, because there was nothing there before them. And when someone claims that Genisis covers Millions of years because one day to GOD is like a million to people, that's bogus! The bible says: the morning and the evening were the first, or second, or third, etc. day! According to factual biblical timeline most would believe the earth to be 6,000 to 10,000 years old. In Genesis in the Garden of Eden, There was no evil. It was a wonderful, pure world, until the serpent tricked Adam and Eve into disobeying the LORD, then Sin, death, suffering, and all sorts of other stuff entered the world. If you say you believe the bible then say that genisis wasn't from the beginning of time, but in fact before genisis was when the dinosaurs roamed the earth how can you justify that the dinos were all killed off before the garden of Eden

Answer 4

The Bible says what it says; and it is not trying to answer that question. A better question to ask of the Bible is; Why the earth? Why us? Is there a reason for this life? We know its here, we know that we did not make it but; What should we do while we are here? This seems to be a really good question to me and the Bible has some good thoughts on the subject.

By the way, do you mean the earth as it is today, or as it was when it was a molten puddle in space, or the particles that formed it out of a gas cloud. In some sense the earth is as old as time itself and in another sense its as new as the last germinated seed.

Answer 5

The Bible does not directly address the age of the Earth. Many people take the Genesis story literally and believe that everything was created in six twenty-four hour days and they begin counting the age of the Earth at that time. Others choose to believe that the six days are a metaphore for the way God created the Earth. Either way, there is no real mention of the actual age.

Answer 6

It doesn't say. The oldes thing you can calculate using the Bible is Adam, he's 6031 years old this year. Even Eve you can't tell except he's younger than Adam.

Genesis 1:3-31 tells how God prepared the already existing earth for human habitation. It says that this was done during a period of six days, but it does not say that these were 24-hour days. It is not unusual for a person to refer to his “grandfather’s day,” meaning that one’s entire lifetime. So, too, the Bible often uses the term “day” to describe an extended period of time. (Compare 2 Peter 3:8.) Thus the ‘days’ of Genesis chapter 1 could reasonably be thousands of years long.

Answer 7

The Bible doesn't actually make details about a number. Indeed, the estimation about how old the earth is was estimated by a priest a long, long time ago. Then, some time later, some other priest managed to find an actual date (sometime in October). I am a Christian, but I honestly don't want to make justifications about when God created the world...

Answer 8

The Bible only records the date from the Birth of Adam.

It says nothing about the date of the Earth

Answer 9

Actually, the days in Genesis were literal 24-hour periods. See, the word yom in Hebrew means most commonly day, but it is true, it's used in over three hundred other parts of the bible as specifically an "extended period of time." But in Genesis, yom was used with a word-phrase, yomeched, which means "The first day." There's also a word-phrase for the second, thirt, etc. days. -EVERY- other place in the Bible where the word-phrase "the first day, the second day, etc." is used, it refers to a literal 24-hour period of time. From the rising of the sun, to the setting and rise again. Genesis days were literal 24-hour periods of time. The earth is a little over 6 thousand years old..I think around 7500 though.

Answer 10

The Bible doesn't tell us how old the earth is. The Boble says God created the earth on the first creation day, but we have no idea how long that day was. A day was not necessarily a 24 hour period. Often on the Bible a day refers to a long period of time.