where in the bible does it say the earth is 6000 years old?

Answer 1

The Bible doesn't directly say, "The earth is 6,000 years old." In the 1600's, James Ussher used the ages of different people given in the Bible to give the time of creation approximately 6,000 years ago (from our standpoint today).

Answer 2

You just have to count the years of each generations life span described in Genesis. This adds up to 2000 from Adam to the flood. You look at the same basic data from records and the Bible and you get 2000 years from the flood to birth of Jesus. Then we are at 2007 from birth of Jesus to now. The sum of these three periods gives you about 6000 years and that is the time from when the first created man and woman were banished from the Garden of Eden which originally was where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers start and which was at the time of the flood moved by God to heaven. BTW that was when the earth tiled on its axis and we started to have the four seasons. Originally there was no seasons, because the earth did not wobble on its axis, because it was not tilted. Taking the garden out caused it to tilt so many degrees to the side. What is it, about 15 degrees or so?

Answer 3

It doesn't, for the good reason that, when it was written, it only claimed the Earth to be 4000 years old. :P

However, from what I've heard many scholars have examined the various dates in the Bible, and by adding them all up have determined the time from the first part of Genesis to Jesus being born (the year 1 CE or thereabouts) fairly accurately, and it comes out to around 3700 years or so (according to biblical chronology the Earth will be 6000 years old sometime in the 23rd century).

Answer 4

The earth was created in the beginning .... it doesn't say when that was.
Before the first day the earth was already sitting there in the dark.
Then about 6000 years ago God made man.

Answer 5

6000 is calculated from the ages of people throghout the generations...their ages are given when they died and how old their fathers were when they were born etc.

remember people came after the earth was created, so this only describes time since Adam, not since the earth was created.

Gen 1:1 describes a perfect creation..Gen 1:2 says it became (hebrew says "became" , not "was") dark and void, so something happened between verse i and 2. We do not know the time frame for that. Man was created later

Answer 6

One needs to follow the chronologies down, and figure it out. Bishop Ussher came up with 5689 I think it is, but then someone else argued he had misunderstood some of the details. The "Jews" have a date on their calender, though I don't recall what it is. It also is slightly less than 6000.

Answer 7

It's 6000 Years since Adam.
Earth is very old.
Many Generations have come and gone.

Answer 8

It doesn't say. :-) But it does outline generations in Genesis, and in the gospels, particularly Matthew, that theologians use to ascertain how long it has been since Creation. The year 0 A.D. is supposedly the year Christ was born, which would be 2007 years ago (actually they say that He would have been born in 4 B.C. :-) And they use the generations from Adam to Moses... to Abraham... to King David, etc. to estimate how long it was from Creation to Christ, namely about 4,000 years.

Answer 9

Luke 3:38

Answer 10

Nowhere. Christians get that from adding up the generations in some books of the bible.