Where in the Bible does it say that the universe is 6000 years old?

Question

ok, so it's 13.7 Billion years old, but please give the Chapter and verse in the Bible, if you're refering to the "6" days (Or 6 yoms) thing, then a day does not necessarily mean 24 hours or 1000 years, In Arabic (And probably hebrew since both have things in common) a day means "Stage" or "Phase".

and please state verse and chapter.

Answer 1

I think it's calculated on the basis of the geneaology provided in the bible.

Answer 2

You're right. The Hebrew word is transliterated "yom." Even this creationist website I'm looking at right now admits the word is used in the Old Testament to mean a long period of time nine times. See below for a link to Genesis 1.

I think some guy in the Renaissance calculated that the earth was 6000 years old. But I don't think the genealogies that were used to calculate age were necessarily listing every person -- just the notable ones. Here's a quote from another website I found that explains who thought up 6000 years:

"This belief was given a boost in 1642 by John Lightfoot, a distinguished Greek scholar and Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University who got very specific and said that the moment of creation was 9:00 AM, September 17th , 3928 BC. Its hazy just how he arrived at this figure but it had something to do with adding up all those "begats" in the ancestries of people mentioned."

Answer 3

If you add up all the years that are mentioned in the bible, you get creation happening on or about 4004 BCE. The most famous biblical chronology was done by Bishop Ussher but a number of others have done similar work and come up with a similar start time.

It does, of course, require you to believe that when the bible says "day" it means 24 hours and when it says "year" it means 365 days. If you believe the bible to be literally true, as Ussher did, then his results seem sound. As no less than Stephen Jay Gould wrote: "Ussher represented the best of scholarship in his time. He was part of a substantial research tradition, a large community of intellectuals working toward a common goal under an accepted methodology."

Of course, if you believe the bible to be an ancient work which includes ancient misconceptions, ancient legends presented as fact, and millennia of errors introduce through oral transmission and written translation, then the 6000 year history of the universe is just another silly belief.

One should also note that many "young earth" creationists are backing away from this date despite its biblical basis because archaeology is pushing the provable dates of some civilizations dangerously close to 4004 BCE. They already have a situation where we have written records from countries such as Egypt which cover the time that the bible says the flood occurred. Curiously, they don't mention everybody drowning.

Answer 4

a imaginative day is a quantity of time not a literal day climate 24 hours or a 1000 years. that's indicated while describing that on the seventh day God rested, in this time while guy sinned and & the 6th imaginative day ended Gen 3:15, God's 1st prophecy is decreed. The exciting element approximately this 1st prophecy while examined is that a 1000 365 days reign could might desire to take place before the seventh imaginative day ends, this might point out a imaginative day is 7000 years. all of us be attentive to looking documented dates that 1975 could be understood as 6000 years considering that Adam grew to become into created, what we don't be attentive to is how some years grew to become into in touch between Eve's creation, Adam sinning and the commencing of the seventh imaginative day. yet permit's contemplate this, all the heavenly creation is familiar with of those dates yet Jesus himself stated no person is familiar with the day nor the hour while the tip comes, in basic terms the daddy, Jesus' Father is familiar with so no you are able to nonetheless use any sort of years as to what, why or while. A tension which could create the solar and each element else can't be scrutinized by imperfect guy as to "time spans" or the lengths of time, this isn't what's at concern yet as long as devil can save you arguing approximately dates and cases the weighty concerns of God's regulations escape you and while the tip does come you will say you have been in no way informed while all you rather might desire to do is pay attention to the message Jehovah's Witnesses are preaching from door to door for the duration of the inhabited earth(Matthew 24:14)

Answer 5

The universe and the earth are probably billions and millions of years old respectively. The bible is still true. I think the creation "day" is more a creative time period that could have lasted thousands or millions of years.

It is pretty obvious there wasn't even an 'earth day' until at least the fourth day (creative time periods) anyway....
Genesis 1
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

Answer 6

There is no such verse. That number was arrived at by Bishop James Ussher in the 17th century by calculating ages and genealogy of the characters in the bible. It's an irrelevant number, and is adhered to by few, other than those who feel the need to opposed things like Carbon Dating, etc. I see no reason to doubt that the "Days" of creation actually refer to distinct periods of time of indeterminate length. This does not change nor diminish the account of creation.

Answer 7

The 6000 year old idea is not from the Bible, per se, but from Bishop James Ussher's work "The Annals of the World" which was written in 1658. He took the "begats" as some have said, along with a whole lot of world history, and came up with a date when the world began. (1 a.m., October 23, 4004 B.C.)

There are other reasons we believe in a young earth, and not necessarily 6000 years, but as much as 10,000 years, but I won't go into that, since it is beyond the scope of your question.

Answer 8

It doesn't.

I believe theologians (I nearly put scholars but that seems too complementary) worked out the date by adding up the 'begats'.

I'm continually amazed by the religious peoples desire to believe in a small, young universe when surely anyone with a sense of wonder would appreciate the true scope and age of the universe.

Humans were painting in caves 50,000 years ago.

The city of Jericho is well over 9000 years old. Its really hard to accept some people think the whole universe is so young. Some people just want to be ignorant.

*Oh I hate the days argument - 'a day to god might mean 1000 years!' yeah but it would have to be more like 500,000,000 years, not 1000 and if he meant 1000 years why didnt he say so? Adam lived to 900 years supposedly they didn;t say 0.9 of a god's day, did they?! Does god not know the difference between a day and 1000 years? Why don't people just accept the truth. The bible was written by ignorant bronze age peoples.*

Answer 9

It doesn't. An Archbishop several hundred years ago reviewed the bible and calculated the age based on "begats" and life spans as stated in scripture. He came up with an age of about 6000 years. That would be years as we know them.
As for what constitutes a day in the bible, that is a subject for theological debate. The bible doesn't make it clear.

Answer 10

Christians can't have it both ways: if a day was indeed 1000 years then: Did it rain for 40 days or 40,000 years to make the great flood?
Did the Jews wander in the desert for 40 years, or 40,000 years? Did Jonah live inside the whale for 3 days or 3000 years?

Answer 11

Followers of creationism believe in the literal truth of the Genesis account in the Bible that God created the world in six days. Bishop Adoyo, Evangelist leader in Kenya, for example believes the world was created 12,000 years ago, with man appearing 6,000 years later. He says each biblical day was equivalent to 1,000 Earth years.

What the bible says is a matter of interpretation so your guess at this is as good as Bishop Adoyo's.

Apparently the good Bishop is not willing to conceed however that his "silly views" are not factual and are only one of the theories of Evangelistic believers.