Biblicial sources for when life began/everything was created?

Question

Usually it's said it was 6,000 years ago. Where is this cited in the Bible? Please give the verses for reference.

p.s. I would just like the factual answer to my question; I don't want to be bombarded with any other information about religion or the absence thereof.

Gee, thanks to many of you for ignoring the whole "p.s." part of my post.

Answer 1

This is by interpretation by "young earth" creationists.
For views of "old earth creationist" Hugh Ross, a Christian astrophysicist, go to:

http://www.reasons.org/

Answer 2

It isn't directly cited in Scripture that everything is 6000 years old. Some fundamentalist Christians use various chronologies in the Bible, take them literally, and then try to do the math.
A common school of thought among thoughtful Christians is that there was a time gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2.
I personally think the phrase," And the evening and the morning were the ___ day.", is a poetic device used to separate creative events. I could be wrong.

Answer 3

Biblical sources for when everything was created:
Genesis 5:3 And Adam lived 130 years, and begot Seth
Genesis 5:6 Seth lived 105 years, and begot Enosh
Genesis 5:9 Enosh lived 90 years, and begot Cainan
Genesis 5:12 Cainan lived 70 years, and begot Mahalalel
Genesis 5:15 Mahalalel lived 65 years, and begot Jared
Genesis 5:18 Jared lived 162 years, and begot Enoch
Genesis 5:21 Enoch lived 65 years, and begot Methuselah
Genesis 5:25 Methuselah lived 187 years, and begot Lamech
Genesis 5:28 Lamech lived 182 years, and begot Noah
Genesis 5:32 Noah lived 500 years, and begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth
Genesis 11:10 Shem lived 100 years, and begot Arphaxad 2 years after the Flood

Add all these up and you get 1,654 years from Adam until the Flood + 2 years and Arphaxad was born. We continue in Genesis 11:12 Arphaxad lived 35 years, and begot Shelah
Genesis 11:14 Selah lived 30 years, and begot Eber
Genesis 11:16 Eber lived 34 years, and begot Peleg
Genesis 11: 18 Peleg lived 30 years, and begot Reu
Genesis 11:20 Reu lived 32 years, and begot Serug
Genesis 11:22 Serug lived 30 years, and begot Nahor
Genesis 11:24 Nahor lived 29 years, and begot Terah
Genesis 11:26 Terah lived 70 years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
(Abram's name was later changed by God to Abraham--see Genesis 17:5) So, if you add up these numbers, you get 290 years from the flood to Abraham.
Now, if you skip over to Matthew 1:17, you will see that it was 14 generations from Abraham to David, 14 generations from
David to Deportation to Babylon, and 14 generations from Bablylon to Messiah. This is 42 generations from Abraham to Jesus. If we make an ASSUMPTION of 36 years per generation, this places Jesus birth at 1,512 years after Abraham.
So, to summarize, we have 1,654 years from the beginning (Adam) to the Flood, then 290 years to Abraham, then 1,512 years (give or take a week) from Abraham to Jesus. Jesus was born in 4 BC, so from then til now is 2,011 years. This adds up to 5,467 years for the age of the earth; based on an assumption of 36 years per generation. You can rerun the figures with a strict Biblical 40 years per generation, but you don't get millions or billions. Those numbers are reserved for Congress and evolutionists.
You didn't expect it to be ONE verse, did you?
In His Service,
John the Baptist

Edit: The Hebrew word for "Day" in Genesis is "yome" which is ONLY used in reference to a 24 hour day. The answers to this: http://watchtower.org/e/20020608/article_01.htm AND THIS: http://bythebible.page.tl/Creation.htm IS THIS: http://www.christiananswers.net/evangelism/beliefs/cults.html

Answer 4

The only actual time we can be sure of, is from the creation of Adam, to now. Only the Creation since Adam's creation, & this we get by noting the ages of people through the years when they beget their children, for generations. This has nothing to do with the other creative days, & how long they were. That they were all much longer than 24-hour-days science has proven, but not just how long they were...

Answer 5

When you say 'life,' you are referring to the six creative days when the animals were created?

In that case, the 6,000 doesn't apply at all!

It is only thought to do so by people not applying themselves to proper Bible study.

The Bible shows that one creative day is at least, AT LEAST, 7000 years long. Thus do your own math, with us being in the seventh day, how many years does that make at a minimum?

Please see what the possibilities are scripturally:
http://bythebible.page.tl/Creation.htm

Several problems are discussed there.

Answer 6

This was put forth by an Irish monk, bishop USHER (sp) by counting backwards through the generations, to Adam. But you will get no date as to when He created Adam Y'know I once heard a preacher say it was 4004 B.C. at 9:30 in the morning. Yeah like God told him personally. This is one time you won't get any 'facts' on the creation account, sorry. Religions try,,,they LIE!

Answer 7

It was much longer than that. Noah alone lived to be 950 years old. People back in then lived to be 1000 years old. 9:28 Genesis. The bible shows several generations of ancestors of Noah and Moses, each living well over 100 years. Noah was 600 years old when he built the Ark.

(Another reason I dont believe in the bible, they didn't have dentists back then and teeth are not designed to last that long)

Answer 8

What they have done is add up the genealogy in the Bible. They added, for example, the ages of father and son... like this... So and so was 80 years old when their son was born... so there you have 80 years... then you take that 80 and add to it the age of the son when their first child was born... and so on... to get the total of the earth being less than 10,000 years old.

Answer 9

There aren't really Biblical sources apart from what we can make out from the Biblical timeline. We are making a scientific estimation and its actually much closer to the truth that 20 billion years of whatever the evolutionists say. (f.y.i evolution is a religion)

Answer 10

Here's a book you might like:
"Communication with the Spirit World of God - It's Laws and Purpose" by Johannes Greber (Amazon $12) (most libraries)