Is believe the Earth is 6,000 years old important to Christians?

Answer 1

Not a requisition for us. Salvation is important to Christians. Belief that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God and that He lived, suffered and died for our sins, and then rose again and is our Lord and Savior and that we must repent or turn away from our sins is what God requires for our salvation.

Some day when we come face to face with God, we will know then.

Answer 2

Half is true the man was created 6,000 thousand but was all physical creation accomplished in just six days sometime within the past 6,000 to 10,000 years?
The facts disagree with such a conclusion: (1) Light from the Andromeda nebula can be seen on a clear night in the northern hemisphere. It takes about 2,000,000 years for that light to reach the earth, indicating that the universe must be at least millions of years old. (2) End products of radioactive decay in rocks in the earth testify that some rock formations have been undisturbed for billions of years.
Genesis 1:3-31 is not discussing the original creation of matter or of the heavenly bodies. It describes the preparation of the already existing earth for human habitation. This included creation of the basic kinds of vegetation, marine life, flying creatures, land animals, and the first human pair. All of this is said to have been done within a period of six “days.” However, the Hebrew word translated “day” has a variety of meanings, including ‘a long time; the time covering an extraordinary event.’ (Old Testament Word Studies, Grand Rapids, Mich.; 1978, W. Wilson, p. 109) The term used allows for the thought that each “day” could have been thousands of years in length.

Answer 3

There are "young earth creationists" to whom the earth's age is important. Many of them consider compromise on the earth's age the first step down a slippery slope which can lead to compromise on doctrinal essentials. Most young earth creationists, however, remain somewhat flexible on the earth's age within boundaries of 10 - 12,000 years. These creationists generally try to reconcile science and Scripture through alternative interpretations of scientific data (such as the white hole cosmology of Russell Humphries).Tracing OT geneologies to determine the earth's age is no longer considered valid by any Christians except the most radical fundamentalists since even conservative Bible scholars recognize there are gaps in the geneologies. In addition to the above factors there are many "old earth creationists" who embrace various interpretations of Genesis 1-2 that enable them to harmonize their faith with prevailing scientific views of the earth's age. The bottom line is it seems there are very few Christians whose faith depends upon any given age of the earth.

Answer 4

Not to this particular Christian, although some of my fellow believers are pretty stuck on that number. I can envision a number of potential Creation scenarios, but I'm not about to claim that we've only been around here for 6,000 years.

Answer 5

It's important to the Creationist Christians.

Answer 6

Only the stupidest people on this planet could ever believe that the world is 6,000 years old.

Answer 7

Religion aside, any one can tell you the history of man is longer than 6000 years. Do some research, don't be afraid to think. God doesn't condemn you for thinking.

Answer 8

Surprisingly I find most Christians it is not important to.

Answer 9

Yes, It makes me think allot of scientists are telling a bunch of BS, stories and taking wild guesses when they say such and such is 394004 years old.

Answer 10

There are differences of opinion among Biblical creationists.
See for example: http://www.reasons.org/