Is it true that some Christians think that the Universe was Created 6000 years ago?

Question

Because incidentally, the Sumerians invented glue 1000 years before that.

Answer 1

One Bishop whose name was James Ussher did his own calculation,and expect all Christians to trust him.

Answer 2

Yes, many do. I personally think it's a little older than that, but not a whole lot.

There's really no point to being a Christian if you're going to pick and choose which parts of the Bible you're going to accept. Scripture has convinced me of it's truth from beginning to end. Only the Holy Spirit can do that, science and reason can't. Just as I believe the virgin birth, the resurrection and everything else the Bible says, I also believe the creation account as it is written.

That being said, the Bible isn't intended to give an exact timeline. The 6000 year figure is about as short as you could figure. For those of us who believe that the Bible is the inerrant Word of God, most would probably put the age of the earth between 6 & 12 thousand years.

The basis for this is purely the Holy Spirit, as instructed by the Bible.

As a side note, even if you view the Old Testament as a human work, it still presents more historical evidence than anything that puts the Sumerian invention of glue at 7000 BC

Answer 3

purely an exceptionally few trust THAT. maximum folk say that the first 6 'days' of introduction were actually 'situations' or 'a lengthy time period' of introduction. Hebrew is kinda iffy that way. So we do not have a situation with a 12 billion three hundred and sixty 5 days old universe. Why do you've a situation with the concept the large Bang became initiated by technique of an sensible Entity large sufficient to carry close all about you, and loving sufficient to settle for you besides?

Answer 4

Unfortunately, it's true. And their rationale is that God could have created the world with age. But wouldn't that make him a user of deception? I thought Satan was the father of lies? But God can do one in his free time? Very bad theology. All this stems back to some Anglican priest in the late 1800's in a knee-jerk reaction to Darwinism who calculated the age of the world by using the chronologies of lifespans from Genesis.

Answer 5

Yes, it's true that some believe that. I don't understand it either. You can even go on Wikipedia and read about events in human history that happened four or five thousand years before they claim the world even existed, let alone all the events that happened millions of years ago.

Answer 6

It certainly is, and I have been having a discussion with an otherwise intelligent chap who argues for it. The fact that there are ice layers in Antarctica over 100,000 years old does not impress him. And he completely rejects radioactive dating.

Answer 7

Well. dates are debatable-not many over about 2800 years are verifiable. But yes, the bible dates do add up to about 6200 years. But besides Christians who believe it-there are thousands of scientist that believe it also.
The oldest known artifact that most all scientist agree on the date is about 5500 years. Everything older than that is very debatable.

Answer 8

Yes. They disbelieve any or all of the scientific evidence to the contrary. This is probably due to the fact that they are told to "just have faith" in what their church tells them to believe and not in logic.

Answer 9

Yes, some do which is so idiotic because you can find events that happened well before that time.

Answer 10

They do, but almost exclusively limited to the united states, for obvious reasons.