why is the time line of humanity in the bible only a few thousand years?

Question

to me this doesnt make sense the bible clearly states the timeline of humanity and it doesnt match up with what scientests and historians know about the history of man

Answer 1

Friend,

The Bible is simply a book of legends for the first several books (the Pentateuch). Those books cover the creation, laws, and virtually all the rules that the remainder of the Bible is based on.

The timeline doesn't match simply due to there being no written history showing the truth. What they perceived as the truth (handed down from elder to child over centuries) wasn't necessarily that........it was their explanations of how we came to be, where we began, etc. Anyone who takes the Bible as Truth is blind to the obvious.

There are no mentions of dinosaurs (but there are mention of giants, which was their explanation for the huge bones they found). There are no mention of an actual location of the "Garden of Eden", simply because it was a story, not a real place. With today's knowledge, we KNOW that the actual location of the beginning of humanity was somewhere in lower Africa, but back then, they really believed it was in the Meditteranean area.

It doesn't make sense, friend....and anyone who thinks it does needs to learn to think for themselves.

Answer 2

Well technically what you are seeing is the difference between the Bible and what the world is saying, which of course are bound to conflict with one another.

The world uses 'carbon dating' and many flawed techniques that claim millions and billions of years ago for humans and various animals. The problem is...'estimating'. Just because you can 'carbon date' something and say it's 'x' years old; no person has lived that length of time to prove the carbon doesn't decompose a lot quicker after a certain amount of years. So what they claim as millions could be thousands...and nobody can truly prove that.

The Bible is a faith book, while the world can't understand because they go by 'science'.

Answer 3

I don't know. Perhaps it has to do with what kind of numbers the people of the Old Testament normally understood. Can you imagine someone telling a shepherd that some ancient fellow lived for over seven hundred years? Would the shepherd really grasp that number? Or .... as I suspect, would he just know it was a heck of a long time to live and leave it at that?

Kev

Answer 4

I think this can be chalked up to the fact that the timeline of man in the Bible actually does line up pretty well with the timeline of CIVILIZED man (writing, cities). This was an attempt at history, and shouldn't be taken as meaning to include prehistory, as many people erroneously do.

Answer 5

it doesn't make sense, does it ? it's not possible for the earth to have been created with some animals already in the earth could it ? it couldn't have been purposely made that way for a reason, could it ? why are men's mind so small and why are there so many atheists in the religion and spiritualty section ?
get a life. carbon dating has also been proven to be flawed, just like the rest of man's sciences. if you want to base your salvation on a scientific exeriment that's been around for 50 years, go ahead.

Answer 6

That's the way God set it up! he did not set it up to match human scientists or historians.

Answer 7

The bible also indicates that the earth is millions of years old. We don't have a problem with that. Next question.

Answer 8

The bible was written by a primative nomadic people who could imagine anything other than what they knew.

Answer 9

.A CYCLE OF TIME IS 7 YEARS/////THE GARDEN OF GOD IS 7000 YEARS THEN IT IS HARVEST.I SHOULD KNOW,FOR ONE DAY TO GOD IS A THOUSAND YEARS