Many people are religious yet understand that the world wasn't created 6000 years ago?

Question

Many people are religious yet understand that the world wasnt created 6000 years ago. How do they come to terms with the direct contradiction to what the bible is telling them? How do they accept a blatent lie from the bible yet go on believing all that other garbage?

Answer 1

it is time we as a species recognize our innate need for spirituality without having to attach the (obviously inaccurate) mythologies of our primitive ancestors

Answer 2

How do they come to terms with the direct conradiction to what the bible is telling them. What is the boble telling them? That the world was careated 6000 years ago. For the bible to be a blatent lie means that you have conclusive proof of the beginning, in other words you have had to been there. I doubt it.

I don't know what other garbage you speak of. Whenever the earth was created whether 6000 years or 6,000,000 mjillions years I know this. That in the beginning My God, the true and living God, created the heaven and the earth. Nothing else matters.

Answer 3

Hi,
Just so you know, the Bible doesn't claim to state that the Earth is 6000 yrs. old. In fact it states that the Earth is of old. Which means that it is in fact very very old. I believe that our measurements come pretty close to the presently held belief that it's in the billions of years. What you read in Genesis account is the recreation of the Earth after the rebellion of satan. There are many places in scripture that speak of a total destruction of the Earth by water where great cities were laid to waste, and where absolutely no life was left. This is not the flood of Noah's day. This was a complete destruction of the Earth with absolutely zero life left. Not even on a very large boat. You can learn more about this debate when you study the Gap Theory.

Answer 4

I consider myself to be spiritual. I also consider myself to be smart enough not to take the Bible too seriously. Yes, it represents a good set of ground rules upon which to base your life, but it is not infallible. Believing that it is is just plain gullibility. It was not "written by God", although God probably had a hand in inspiring it. It was written by men, a transcript of oral traditions that had been passed down for generations (in the case of the Old Testament, the New Testament has more first hand accounts, of course).

With so many people, it's all or nothing. They never stop to seriously consider that there might be validity in other points of view, too. Just like they never stop to ask "Why do I really believe this?" before they start touting it as the truth. (For the record, I also believe in both creationism and evolution, and I've never found them to be directly contradictory.)

Answer 5

It's ignorant people like you that PISS ME OFF. Of course, there is scientific proof taht the world was created over 6000 years ago, and yet i still believe in the bible. Why? Because the bible never says that a certain amount of time passed since it was written and, say, Christs birth. For all you know, the bible could be figurative anyway, and it operates on FAITH. Perhaps you should actually read the bible before you go shooting your mouth off.

Answer 6

1. The Bible is not always taken literally. Not all religious people are fundamentalists.

2. There are other religions that don't say the world was created 6000 years ago.

Answer 7

Our innate need for faith stems from our innate predisposition to paranoia. Everyone in the universe is paranoid to some degree. For many this paranoia would drive them absolutely insane if they did not believe in some greater power to counteract it. Unfortunately some have discovered they can use these facts to control others through large scale religious entities. It's a sad state of affairs. Truly and in all honesty even atheism requires a level of faith. But you really wont see the atheists declaring war on other religions any time soon.

Answer 8

First of all the creation story was made up in 500 BCE when the Jews were captive in Babylon to compete with the Babylonian creation story. I don't take the Bible literally. I see it as a guide to life. I also tend to follow the New Testament more than the Old Testament.

Answer 9

Look, I am just glad that some of them are starting to realize that the Earth is more than 6,000 years old, and that it only took 6,000 years the get some of them to understand that.

If you read creationist sites definitely be sure to check their sources. Creationists are quite famous for misquoting researchers and telling quite outrageous lies. They are also quite adept at only presenting the parts of research that support them and ignoring everything that does not.
Make sure you research creationist claims, I can not stress this to highly.

And for the bible deniers that say the bible does not say the Earth is only about 6,000 years old the number comes from adding up the dates in the geneology from Adam who was created during creation week. The hebrew calendar actually starts from that date. Give your heads a shake folks.

Answer 10

where did you come up with the statement that the world was created 6000 years ago? It wasn't from the Bible. Show the exact chapter & verse where the Bible contradicts itself. Read Genesis chapter 1 more closely and get back to me with your timeline.

Answer 11

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