In Christianity, the Earth is supposively about 2000 years old, but if that's true...?

Question

what was God doing before then?

Okay, 6000 years.
but still, does anyone want to make your answer relative to the question? What was God doing before hand?

Answer 1

Hold on, now -- the fundamentalist christians are wrong, but not that wrong. They say it's 6,000 or so years old, not 2,000. Still off by, oh, 4.5 BILLION years :) And not all christians believe that particular fairy tale, just the hard-core fundamentalist "every word in the bible is literally true" ones do, which is a minority of christians.

It's not true -- don't worry about it. There are literally hundreds of thousands of pieces of evidence from every discipline of science (geology, astronomy, cosmology, biology, archeaology, etc.) that show that the earth is 4.5 billion years old. There is NO evidence of any kind that shows it's 6,000 years old. There are in fact written records older than that...
Most of the old testament stories about "the beginning" are oral creation myths passed down among the hebrews for a couple thousand years before anyone wrote them down. Their written forms almost certainly don't even resemble their forms 1000 years before -- just like the game telephone, messages get screwed up and or embellished when they're passed orally. And they were just myths to begin with, not reality. They're stories meant to illustrate a point, nothing more.

Answer 2

1. FYI: "supposively" is not a word

2. i believe your thinking that the world was 6000 not 2000. I mean it's already 2007 for crying out loud. how could the world only be 2000 years old?!

3. actually since, according to the bible, God created the world in seven days. one could argue that a day is not fixed to 24.25 hours. It's only on earth that it's like that. since God supposedly knows everything, he knows that a day is relative. so it could be a million earth years = 1 day. that would make the earth 7,006,000 years old.

4. but you do raise a good point. since God was around forever, what was He doing before He created earth?

Answer 3

According to some,the Earth is about 6000 years old with the apperance of being older. As for what God was doing before then, He made tha Angels and was thinking about making you and what you needed to survive here.

Answer 4

To Christians aka me we believe that the Earth is 6000 years old and Before 2000 years ago, is all in the old testament, I'm sure you would have heard the story of Moses and Joseph and so on..yea well those are old testament stories, before Jesus came. God bless..x

Answer 5

Just wanted to clear up some of your misinformation: SOME Christians interpret the Old Testament of the Bible to show that the earth is 6000-10000 yrs old.

Answer 6

The estimation of the earth's age comes from adding up all the ages and years in the bible (Methuselah, Moses, etc) from the OT to the NT. It's not the actual age of the earth, but a rough estimate 'cause the bible doesn't reveal the ages of everyone that ever lived in biblical times.

Answer 7

Actually, we don't believe that. After all, Jesus was crucified About 2000 years ago. Nobody knows for sure how old the earth is.

Answer 8

Yes 6-10 thousand years old is the range for young earth creationists.

Answer 9

no to christians the earth is approx 6000 years old.

i dont think anyone thinks its only 2000 yrs old. it was 2000 yrs ago jesus came to earth, and they have much history before that.

Answer 10

It's 2007 years since Christ died, hence 2007 AD. There are all those years BC to consider (Before Christ). The Old Testament is the BC story.