Christians, how old does your religion say the world is?

Question

some say 6,000 years. What proof is there? Do you think that is so? Comments from all are welcome.

Answer 1

The Genesis account tells nothing about the formation of the Earth itself. It says, "In the beginning the Earth was--without form and void"--shapeless, empty. There were neither mountains nor valleys, trees nor shrubs, rivers nor oceans, but the Earth was. How long before that it had been created, is not stated. The account of the Days of Creation given in Genesis relates not to the construction of our globe, but to the ordering of it for human habitation.

There are various theories regarding its formation. We follow the one most closely harmonizing with the Bible. It is called the Vailian theory. It assumes that Saturn's rings and Jupiter's belts illustrate Earth's development as a planet.
The Earth was once molten, as indicated by the igneous rocks of the Azoic period: so called by scientists, but not discussed in the Bible. When the Earth was molten, its water and minerals were thrown off a great distance in gaseous form. As these cooled and took shape, they constituted great rings at a distance from the Earth.
Gradually the motion of the rings became different from that of the Earth in proportion to the distance from the center of gravity. These rings of water and mineral gradually approaching the Earth would be kept off by centrifugal force, particularly strong at the equator. The "brooding" of Holy Energy developed a light, probably resembling the Aurora Borealis--not sunlight. The Sun did not appear until the Fourth Day.
"Let there be light! and there was light." Thus, briefly, is summed up the result of the 7,000 years, styled the First Day. Not that God's Word would not have been sufficient for any miracle, but because He prefers to work out His glorious designs along natural lines.--Genesis 1:3.
There are scientists who claim that the Earth still has one ring about it, an electrical ring which, falling, will in a few years destroy fermentation, microbes and parasites, and greatly assist plant and animal life.
The expressions "evening and morning" and "day" cannot be understood to signify twenty-four-hour days, for neither Sun nor Moon was visible until the Fourth Day. The Earth was swathed in impenetrable darkness.
The word "day" applies to any period, or Epoch, as for instance, the "Day of temptation in the wilderness"--forty years. (Psalms 95:8.) Note again, that we read of the "Day of Christ," evidently referring to the thousand-year Day in which Messiah is to be King over all the Earth. (Isaiah 2:11.) In the common affairs of life we use the word "day" similarly, when referring to Caesar's day, Napoleon's day, etc.
We follow the theory that each of the Seven Days of the Creative Week was a period of seven thousand years. This, seven times seven thousand, equals forty-nine thousand (7x7,000=49,000) years, ushering in a grand Jubilee Epoch.
As one after another the encircling rings of water and minerals approached the Earth they would spread out like a great canopy, but would not be permitted to fall upon the Earth because of the circumambient air, referred to in Scripture as a "firmament." Saturn's rings have not yet fallen.
God made the firmament in the second, or Palaeozoic Day, and separated the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. (Genesis 1:7.) The strongly mineralized waters above the Earth, held off by the "firmament" and centrifugal force, greatest at the equator, gradually concentrated at the two poles, where later they broke and then reached the Earth, forming layer after layer of mineralized earth deposited by the water which rushed from both poles toward the equator.--Genesis 7:11,18.
These rings, or belts, of water and minerals followed each other as great deluges upon the Earth--perhaps thousands of years apart. The Deluge of Noah's day was the last, of pure water only, heavier minerals being attracted first. Hence minerals are generally under several layers of shale and soil.
"And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land of the Earth appear; and it was so. And God called the dry land earth; and the gathering together of the waters called He seas. And the evening and the morning were the Third Day."
The beautiful simplicity of this statement might mislead us into thinking that the gathering together of the oceans and the erection of mountains were works of magic. While Divine operations are all great and wonderful, they are usually accomplished by reasonable methods, called the "course of Nature." And Nature's course must be marked out by Nature's God.
The ring theory of Cosmogony is that several rings had precipitated themselves upon the Earth during this Third Epoch-Day. These, according to the Divine intention, so increased the pressure on the crust of the Earth as to cause it to buckle or wrinkle. These depressions became ocean beds, and the upheavals became mountain ranges. Thus was the work of the Third Day accomplished. The waters were gathered into seas and oceans, the dry land was upheaved and began gradually to drain off in preparation for vegetation. This draining must have required a long time.--Genesis 1:9,10.
We need not assume that all the continents as we now know them were thrown up on the Third Epoch-Day. In all probability the American continent was thrown up much later than were Europe, Asia and Africa. Earthquake disturbances in our day have changed the surface of the land. They give us a reasonable conception of how the Divine command was executed on the Third Day, preparatory to Earth's vegetation.

And that's only the third day...you with me?

Answer 2

The temporal existence of Earth will be 7,000 years. We are currently sitting at less than 6,000 years. We do not know how long the Earth was around before Adam and Eve partook of the forbidden fruit. It could have been 2 hours it could have been 2,000,000 years or more we do not know.

Prior to Adam and Eve partaking of the forbidden fruit nothing aged there was no death. In the scriptures we have no record of what if anything was going on outside of the Garden of Eden. We should not assume that the lack of information about a subject implies that there was nothing happening. It may just mean that we do not need to know that at this time.

So how old is the Earth? We do not know. How long has the earth been around since the Fall? Less than 6,000 years.

Answer 3

In order for us to say how old Earth is, the sun and the stars must be created before the Earth. In Genesis 1:2, Earth was created first. Genesis 1:14-16 is where the stars, sun, moon, and planets were made. Thus, between 1:2 and 1:14, there is an account of no time. Time did not exist until the stars were made, Genesis 1:14 "let them [stars] be for signs, for season, for days, and year." We cannot say the age of Earth. If we go back as far as we can, we can see that humanity was created after Earth. The dawn of humanity was roughly 6,000 years ago (trace the lineage of humans through the Bible). The Earth was made about 4000 years before Christ. We are now ~1970 years after Christ's death. www.gotquestions.org and www.icr.org. hope that helps.

Answer 4

I am a Christian...my religion doesn't say how old the world is.
I am aware that some say 6,000 years, but I don't think they really have much to go on. The idea that God created everything in six 24 hour days just doesn't compute. The length of a "day" varies, even on this one planet...how do we know how long a "day" is for God? He could have done it in a blink of His eye, if He so desired.
The absolute truth is....nobody really knows.

Answer 5

oh the Old World vs. New World debate.

Theres a lot about it but I go with the Old World. You see in Christianity God exist in a seperate dimension. If a 3D person were to stick a finger into a bent 2D plane it would seem as though 1 figure is at 2 places at ONCE! That can be paralleled with how miracles are viewed to us 3D humans. This seperate dimension allows one to exist for eternity with what we see as a specific block of time. See 1 Day as described by Western Civilization and 1 Day in the bible could be different things. 1 Day in the bible could be whatever time parameter that God sees fit. The bible says that "God is above Time." Because of this, our time, the 6,000 years, could be streched out longer.

Answer 6

Billion of years old, my religion says that in the book of Genesis, between the 1st verse and the 2nd.
Many billions of years went by.
In Hebrew the term "was" should be translated "became"
The world became void, it was not the original created state, it does not make sense that God would create a world that is in chaos, this was the direct result of Satan's rebellion.
This world has had dinoursaurs and many billions of years of fossil history to say it is 6,000 years old is false.
Also in Isaiah it says the Angels shouted for joy when the earth and heavens were created, so by this we know that the angels were already here and it was created for a purpose.
Unfortanately Satan did not keep his end of the deal and rebelled against God.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

It doesn't. Some Christians mistakenly believe that the Bible claims the world is 6,000 years old, but this is (IMO) a misinterpretation. (It's also a relatively modern interpretation, as in within the last few hundred years)

Answer 9

It doesn't. Some guy added up the number of begats and claimed ages in the OT and came up with that number. No serious Christian thinkers actually claim an age based just on the bible.

Answer 10

It doesn't. The Genesis creation account was more about contradicting the Epic of Gilgamesh, which was being forced on them them by their Babylonian captures, then about historical fact. The ancient near-eastern societies always used metaphoric language, not literal.

Answer 11

If you do the math according to the number of years someone lived etc., 6000 years or so would be accurate. However, as I was not there and God has not spoken to me on this particular subject, I can not give you a truthful answer.