Why do Christians think the earth is Young were in the bible do you get the idea from?

Question

I am a Gap Creationist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap_creationism

I never said all Christians,but some Christians

Answer 1

SOME Christians get it from the massive genealogical records of the Old Testament. Then count backwards. But not all believe that way.

Answer 2

I don't think the world is either young or old, I just live on it and try to do God's will. You're asking, but you know that no one will give you even a slightly satisfactory reply. No man on this Earth(neither scientist or devout Christian) can tell you even the approximate age of the Earth. God holds the true age and we don't even need to know, quite frankly. You wanna hold a birthday party for the world, or what? There is more to worry about than this( like how many unsaved souls are running amok on Yahoo! Answers...)

Answer 3

Too many don't read the Bible for themselves, from a fresh viewpoint. They listen to traditions that are almost superstitious in nature, handed down generation after generation, from our scientifically ignorant ancestors.
An examination of scripture with today's knowledge can make a huge change in appreciation of those ancient texts.
Take Gen 1,1 for example. Gen. DOESN'T say God created every thing in six days. (For the sake of argument lets assume each "day" is a separate creative period with a beginning and an end, not 24 hours.)
Gen. 1,1 says the heavens and the Earth were THERE! Already created. Then the text continues to talk about each step that was taken to change and form the Earth into a planet that could be inhabited first by plants and animals, then by man.
The sequence is amazingly accurate if you assume you were here watching the process while standing on the surface of the earth.
No other ancient text comes close to being accurate.
I won't take the time here to detail all the questions that arise from that view, but it has to be something written by inspiration, because man, with the limited knowledge of the era, could NEVER accomplish it on his own.

Answer 4

Some Christians believe the young earth theory, but many more believe that some aspects of evolutionary theory are Biblically sound.

The biggest controversy was back when evolutionists stated that men descended from apes. Of course now DNA and genetics have proven otherwise, so in that case, Biblical adherents were correct.

Like many Christians, I do believe the Biblical account. But I also believe that our sense of time (6 days to create everything) is not the same as God's at all, so what WE call a day might be millions of years to a God who is eternal.

It isn't fair to lump all Christians into the same group. Only the most fundamentalist Christians completely discount all of the evolutionary theory.

Answer 5

Tracing back the generations in the Bible--they wrongly assume the Bible was the first Holy Book--when in fact Moses stole the Storm God Yahweh from a much earlier religion of the Kennites. Also the Hindu Holy scriptures out date the Jewish scriptures.

Answer 6

The earth was ages old when it began to be prepared ages for the inhabitants that were to live forever, so it would take long enough in time to have everything perfect and the only inhabitants to see this was in heaven as angels Job 38:4-7, 30-32; Gen.1:1,2; All exist when the book begans to be written.
Man from Adam is in year 6073, but in an ages old planet earth and all that surrounds it is age old including the angels.

Answer 7

I believe in a young earth, because I believe in the literal interpretation of Genesis chapter one. You know..."in the begining God created the heavens and the earth.." Then it is just a matter of following the Bibical accounts of ages and times, comparing that to other recorded world history timelines.
If you really are interested go to www.answersingenesis.org

Answer 8

why do you categorize ALL Christians into this belief? I have no idea how old the Earth is! And I don't claim to know that it's young. It must be older than 2,000 years though being that that's when Christ lived on the Earth.

Answer 9

They laboriously caculate the age of the earth by using the data on when people were born, had kids, and died that is given in Genesis (i.e "and so-and-so was 130 years old when he begat so-and-so, and he lived to the age of 367 years, and he died, etc, etc.") If you do the math you will indeed get a result showing the earth was created about 6000 years ago, so they are correct when they say that the Bible teaches that the earth is young. Unfortunately, the earth is in fact about 4.5 billion years old, as determined by science...

Answer 10

Unless all Christians are scientists, It's not only Christians who believe that, there is also a part of an elite, recognized, group of scientists. But yes, maybe some of them are Christians as well.