Here you go Christians, according to the bible the earth is less than 10,000 years old. You must believe this.
Bible time line, from Adam and Eve:
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
2007-10-18 10:17:20 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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.
2007-10-18 10:18:24 · update #1
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, and you get somewhere in the thousands. A great assumption would be 5000-8000 years. So unless people live on average 1000+ years the earth is not older than a million years.
2007-10-18 10:18:44 · update #2
Most Christians don't believe the earth to be less than 10,000 years old. Just wanted to make sure they start. I would be embarrassed to believe something that is so obviously wrong. No?
2007-10-18 10:24:01 · update #3
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hahaha, some of you are EXTREMELY stupid. If you hadn't noticed I am NOT a christian. Man, this question makes me a little embarrassed to even be an atheist.
2007-10-18 10:26:29 · update #4
The Earth is approx 4.5-6 billion years old. RECORDED history is only 6000yrs old.
You say you are an Atheist yet you spent a ridiculous amount of time on a ridiculous thing.
2007-10-18 10:26:54 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
About 4 1/2 billion years old. The sun will wipe it out in about another 5 billion.
2007-10-18 17:23:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Apparently you know everything, so why ask the question?
Secondly, you didn't read far enough. You didn't get to the part where they all died at VERY ripe old ages. Methuselah lived to be 969. What you did was quote the ages that they were when they started having children.
2007-10-18 17:28:03 · answer #3 · answered by kellygirlaj 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The earth is about 50 billion years old? Maybe the first 20 billion were the 6 days that the Bible talks about in which the creation took place.
One 24 hour earth day is not a day to God.
2007-10-18 17:32:50 · answer #4 · answered by colebolegooglygooglyhammerhead 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Methuselah was older than 187, plus, you didn't count how long it took for GOD to make the world. many religious people are now saying that what is a day for GOD may be millions of years for us!
2007-10-18 17:26:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Looks like you've started your research...keep reading until you get to Luke 11:23 and Romans 10:9
2007-10-18 17:38:57 · answer #6 · answered by JL 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Or you could ignore all that claptrap, and use actual physical evidence. Which indicates a date somewhere in the range of 4.6 billion years.
UPDATE:
Hey, I just noticed that according to this timeline, Methuselah couldn't have lived as long as is purported in the Bible, because that would have him living through the Flood. So either this timeline is wrong, or Methuselah wasn't as old as he claimed. So either way, the Bible is wrong. Cool, you just proved that fundamentalists are wrong either way.
2007-10-18 17:23:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
are u retarded, what about the diansours, and noah lived for more than 950 years, go get a life and search for what is far beyond that we cant see, not the things you read and get affected with
2007-10-18 17:24:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
That might be how long humans have been on earth but the earth itself is millions of years old
2007-10-18 17:27:47 · answer #9 · answered by M-S 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What's your point. Most Christians already believe the earth is less than 10000 years old.
2007-10-18 17:21:43 · answer #10 · answered by gumby 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋