accroding to the bible how old is earth?

Answer 1

Genesis chapter 1 says the heavens and the earth were in existence BEFORE the fist day of creation started. The first day of creation began with God separating light from darkness, making day and night. But as the earth was already there, and no mention is made of how long it had been there before the first day of creation, the answer to your question is, 'The Bible does not say.'

This means there is no need for Christians to be 'at war' with scientists who say the earth is billions of years old. It could be. Can we all kiss and make up now, please?

Answer 2

Some claim to be able to know from following the lineage, births of different people in the Bible. I tried it once and got lost. But even if a day to God is literally 1000 years. (I think that is just an expression, not exactly 1000 years). The Earth would have to be older than when Adam was created, 6000 years ago, by many 1000s of years. As God made the Earth and the animals first.
So much for man and his thinking he knows everything!

Answer 3

The Bible doesn't say the age of the Earth.

It simply says God created the earth in six periods of time. The length of those periods is unclear. The original texts are written in Ancient Hebrew, using the word "yom."

Yom has 3 meanings-
a day

part of a day

long period of time

This Christian Ministry is made of PhD scientists, philosophers, engineers. They uphold the accuracy of the Bible and the age of the earth at over 4 billion years.

http://www.reasons.org/

Answer 4

I've been reading and studying the bible for some time now. I never saw an exact date in time for when creation happened. I have read that bible scholars estimate the account of Adam and Eve in the garden happened several thousand years ago. Some of my fellow christians live in fear of science that dates the earth in the millions of years. They also fear the theory of evolution.

While it's true that some people, including some scientists, try to use this science to support an agenda of discrediting christians, the bible and the object of our faith, I think those fears are somewhat misguided.

Like the rest of the bible, the genesis account of creation is God revealing himself to us as omni-everything and teaching us about our fallen nature. His message to us is unaffected by the actual sequence and timing of creation events culmunating in the garden of eden.

Science has it's roots in christianity. They were christians studying God's creation and this remains today. It is not the study of WHY things were created and how we should view God or each other.

If science says the rocky mountains were created millions of years ago then who am I to question. It doesn't shake my faith or threaten the existence of God. Were the 7 days of creation leteral 24 hour days or where they epics in time?

God could have delivered his account of creation using the language and knowledge of 21st century science but if he had, nobody would have understood what he was talking about. Isn't it reasonable to think that God has to communicate with his creation on terms that they understand?

I believe the bible to be the literal word of God. It is the authority by which I try to live my life and share His truth with other people. However, I know there is no such thing as a firmament and rain doesn't flow out of holes in it. BUT that was what the "scientists" of the time accepted as fact about our world and so he spoke in terms they (we) could understand.

Scientific knowledge and our limited understanding are the reasons for some of those so called "errors" in scripture. God wasn't wrong. Men were just too stupid and narrow minded to understand an accurate description of the universe beyond what they could see and touch. Isn't it ironic, now that we have expanded our range of sight and touch, that we now say God was stupid or doesn't exist at all.

Where have i read that at the root of man's problems is his arrogance and rejection of God? Oh yeah, now i remember. It's that book that was written thousands of years ago. Now that you think about it HIS book has stood the test of time better than any scientific records. Frankly the comparison isn't even close.

Game over, man loses.... unless you believe and turn your life over to His care.

Answer 5

Well, if you go according to the chronology given in the Bible, most agree it is about 5-6000 years old. The most controversy is whether God created in 7 human days or not. I know people who think it is possible for it to have been 1 million years in our time and one in God's time. Certainly He is all-powerful and we cannot understand everything He does completely.

Answer 6

Genesis1:1
In the BEGINNING, God CREATED the heaven and the EARTH (emphasis added) which means at the very start of the universe, God created everything in the space/time dimension of heaven and the physical earth....just read what it says with no interpretation necessary. If you add up the ages chronologically of some geneologies in the Bible, which has been done, you come up with an age for the earth of around 6000 years old or started at roughly 4004 BC.

Answer 7

the bible doesn't say

those who say 6000 or so get it by adding things up in the genealogies... but those tend to omit 'ordinary' folk, or those who have been really really bad and should be forgotten. even if correct, if still only would answer how long people have been here....

rather silly actually.

Answer 8

Several christians have calculated that time to be less than 10,000 years according to the bible.

Scientists have evidence to support the age of the earth to be around 4 to 5 billion years old.

Which do you believe?

Answer 9

It doesn`t say. It could be 6000 years or 65 million. There is no date of the beginning.

Peace & God bless from Lonestar Prayer Warrior. <><

Answer 10

IT DOESN'T SAY!

But there are potentially billions of years between Genesis 1 and 2.