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Question

ok, im a total christian and i was wondering how old you all thought the world was. im positive that stuff they are teaching in school that its over 45 billion years old isnt true, i just wanted to see what you guys thought. thanx!

Answer 1

4-6,000 yrs old as the Bible states. I use to believe that stuff from school when I went, then as I aged and did more homework as an adult, the truth came about. Science actually led me to the Bible.

Answer 2

If you add up the genealogies in the Bible up through Abraham you get about 2100 years. From secular and Biblical history we know that Abraham died about 1900 B.C. He was 175 when he died. So, 2007+1900+175+2100=6182 years. Actually I think the number is more like 6230 years. I had some information on that at one time, but I have misplaced it. If I can find it I will post it.

But, we have no real evidence that the earth is any older than that. I know that evolutionist teach that the earth is 4.5 byo, but that is not true. They are estimating that date. Those old dates are based on the assumed ages assigned to the different layers of the geologic column over 150 years ago. They are assumed-not known. It is all pure speculation-nothing else.

Answer 3

The Bible doesn't specify how old the earth is as of today. Anything that is said in there (6000 years old?) is what people believed back then.
a) it has been thousands of years since even the most recent parts of the Bible were written
and b) science wasn't nearly as advanced back thne as it is now, so their estimation of how old the earth was could have been slightly off.

It's not 45 billion years old, something like 4- 5 billion.

Answer 4

In the first few chapters of the Bible, the age of the fathers is given when their son was born. If you do a little math, you can see it was about 2000 years from Adam to Abraham. History can fill in the blanks from there. It was about another 2000 years from Abraham to Christ, and it has been about 2000 years since Christ. Add these up, and the earth is a little over 6000 years old (2000 + 2000 + 2000).

So, why does the Earth LOOK so old? In the Bible when something was created miraculously, then many times it looked older than it actually was. There was a real age and an apparent age.

In the first century, it took quite a while to gather the ingredients and then prepare them to bake bread. (It took hours or more if you consider the time to grow the wheat.) When Jesus fed the thousands, he made new bread that looked like the bread that took hours to make. He also broke a fish and made more pieces of fish without the time it would take a fish to normally grow to a size that they would be large enough to provide meat.

Jesus made this food instantly, but it looked like he had spent all day baking bread. This bread had a real "age" of only a few minutes, but it looked like it took hours to make.

When God made the Earth, he made it in a mature form, able to support life. Likewise, He made the animals and man mature, able to reproduce.

One day after Adam was created, he was only one day old, but he was mature in form. He looked like he was several years old. He was able to "be fruitful and multiply".

There was "real age", but the "apparent age" made the creation "look" much older!

Answer 5

Okay, the earth is about 4 POINT 5 billion years old. The Universe is about 12 billion years old.

And did you notice that practically NO ONE said the world is 6000 years old? So much for the atheists' assumptions!!!

Answer 6

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Answer 7

I am catholic and I don't just believe, I know the earth is billions of years old, for one to believe the world is only 6000 years old is absolutely asinine, there is absolute fact that man walked this earth 40 thousands years or more ago, some say 100,000 years, so for us Christians to believe that Adam & Eve were the first humans we really need to give our heads a shake.

Answer 8

You are correct. The stuff they are teaching in school is isn't true. The earth is 4.5 billion years old, not 45 billion years old. What a difference a decimal point can make.

Answer 9

Personally I do not think it matters but, .If I had to chose, it would be 6000.Because that is where Jesus went in his explanation. If you read ENOUGH you will find that the scientists contradict each other a lot. About almost everything.I do not think our faith hinges on that question. And a lot of people say "God would not do this or that" I say "how do you know what God would or would not do" It is what the people teaching the old earth theory say that irks me. Trying to pawn theory off as fact. And the kids in school just absorb it like sponges. Sad.

Answer 10

I don't know how old the earth is. I believe in the "gap theory" that says there was a whole history we are told nothing about between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. This is the time period of which satan was cast out of heaven and 1/3 of the angels fell with him - war in heaven and then the earth was left without form and void. Then God restructures everything and then creates man. It could have been any amount of time between those 2 verses. There are even some who believe there was a whole pre-Adamic race on this planet before satan fell from heaven and destroyed everything. Who knows? God does not say - what concerns us however is our "own" history of the "current" human family and what God did to restore our fellowship back with Him. THAT is what is really important.

Answer 11

1. The first earth created from nothing by God. No one knows the age when this was done.
2. The second earth was reformed, brought forth in the chaotic earth and the flood, swooned over by the Holy Spirit.
3. The current earth was restructured over the old chassis of the first earth. This was perceived to be done almost 6000 yrs. ago.

Since the Hebrew word for day doesn't give an exact timeline, it can be assumed it wasn't a literal "day," since light and darkness wasn't separated until later.