Does the Bible say the Earth is 6,000 years old?

Question

Do all Biblical literalists calculate the same date of creation?

Answer 1

Most if not all Biblical literalist will come up with a an age from 6,000 - 10,000 years old.

The Bible NEVER states or assumes the age of the Earth.

Answer 2

Let me start by saying I am certainly not a Biblical literalist. I see no problem with evolution and creationism. In the bible it says God created the world in 7 days. It doesn't say they were CONSECUTIVE days.... And who is to say that a "day" for God is a 24-hour human day? The other thing is, the Bible was written by PEOPLE... supposedly through divine inspiration. But maybe when God told those people certain things, there was a bit of human error in the translation.Maybe God told them, first I did this, then this, then this.... And they wrote down On the first day, he did this, on the second day, He did this.... see, just a matter of semantics between God and the authors of the Bible? I am fairly educated, and my father is a scientist, and neither one of us believes the Earth is 6,000 yrs old, it can't be... However, we do believe in God and the general precepts of the Bible. The Bible says God is infallible, but nowhere that I know of does it say that the authors of the Bible were perfect, they were human. Some literalists don't see the difference. So yes, there are some people who are blinded to fact by faith, but most Christians aren't literalists. And as I see it, no, the Bible doesn't say the Earth is 6,000 years old. One part of the Bible does say that "no man can comprehend the mind of God", so how could the writers of the bible have comprehended what God meant? And I don't know any specific part where it dates the Earth at any age, some people go just by the generations listed in the Bible, and the "7 consecutive days in the beginning" and come to a date of about 6000 years. To me, that seems foolish, but a very few people do actually do that. Bad at science, bad at math, bad at putting all the things in the Bible in context, and they come up with 6000 years. Go figure. But not even all literalists believe that hooey. Hope this helps. and may God bless you, in whatever way you want to take that.

Answer 3

Slightly longer or shorter 5800-6200 years and that covers any possible variance due to difficulty of translation. Even if you do the one day is a thousand years idea, you still are missing billions of years of the universe. Modern humans, as a species, are older than the oldest estimate of 12,000 years . You have to use biblical dating, combined with known historical events, but if you are picky enough and have the free time, you can calculate it yourself. It does not need to be estimated, except for a few tricky calculations such as the date of the equinox and so forth. However the bible is quite specific, estimation is a poor word. There are other historical datings, but 5800-6200 pretty much covers the scriptures literal translation (note the late septuagint translation would add quite a bit (1500 years) more but it isn't early).

The bible also clearly states that the Earth is flat. Gallileo disproved about 50 bible passages as strictly false, so don't get too upset that it got the age of the Earth wrong either. Gallileo went on trial for proving the bible is a false document. You can either side with those who tried him, or with observable facts.

Answer 4

It has something to do with counting backwards from the Exodus which is 5,800 years old. I've Read Genesis and these people HAVE to be using NEW MATH, because people lived 200, 300, 400 years so either Abraham was still alive when Moses walked the Earth or the world is a bit older than 6,000 years.

Answer 5

NO!

Genesis 1:2 clearly states that the Earth was already present (already created) when God decided to make it suitable for human life.

The Bible traces about 6,000 years of human history, and the creative days were each 1,000 years long, but nowhere in the Bible is the claim made that the Earth is a mere 6,000 years old.

*No one knows when creation occurred or how old the Earth truly is, especially since there was a gap of time from when Adam was first created to when he was ousted from the Garden with Eve. Could have been a week, could have been hundreds of years.*

Answer 6

It's about 6000 years from the creation of Adam.
There are some references to men before Adam in the old testament.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and that could have been billions of years ago.
The account we see in Genesis 1 is the recreation of the earth.

Answer 7

The 6,000 year date is used by trying to follow genealogies, etc backwards. As there are several examples of scripture where generations are skipped, it make it difficult at best to come to a date that way. Then you have to assume that your starting date is correct.

Plus, some try to make the six days of Genesis 1 into "thousand year" days, which doubles the length to 12,000 years.

As the Bible does not give a date (they did not use our calendar), we can only make "best guesses" at the date of creation.

But 6,000 and 12,000 are the most common.

Answer 8

No, the Bible does not say that. I take the Bible pretty literally on most everything except for some of the prophecy. Prophecy should be considered literally and figuratively, just in case. I don't think the earth or universe is only 6000 years old. I truly have no idea how old it is, but it just seems like it would be quite older than 6000 years.

Answer 9

No. But many creationists may use the following scripture to calculate earth creation time:

"But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day." -- 2 Peter 3:8 NIV

Answer 10

No, it does not, although a guy named Bishop Ussher calculated it to be about 6,000 years old. Science on the other hand DOES say that Earth is 6,000 years old. Evolutionists like to use the few examples that point to an ancient earth. Go to s8int.com, it'll help you on your way.

No, some try to bring Evolution into the mix, and say that God could hav used Evolution, but GOD RESTED; EVOLUTION is an ON-GOING PROCESS.

In Hebrew, when it says 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc... day, it literally means a 24-hour period; it's not symbolic