My parents tell me the earth in 5000 years old; where in the bible does it say that?

Answer 1

It does not. If you add up all the dates, history, ages, and etc given in the Bible you end up with an earth about 6000 years old. That is what I believe. God said it and that settles it!

Answer 2

It doesn't. Some have tried to figure out how long man has been around by figuring out the genealogies in the Bible so that they can then postulate the age of the earth (especially if it was created in 6 literal 24 hour days), but it never works because unimportant generations are often skipped.
Then creation scientists who are committed to a young earth model repeat their findings most on Christian TV and people hold on to that because it seems to pull the rug out from under the evolutionists who need billions of years to make sense of their godless system.
Then there have been repeated estimations on the age of the earth from when it supposedly began to when it is supposed to end. Of course those dates set by Bishop Ussher and others have come and gone.
So, you might have another discussion with your folks and find out just how they come to their conclusion. The Bible doesn't demand any particular time frame to be completely true in what it affirms, so this is really a non-issue. If the earth is billions, millions, or thousands of years old, God still created it and us. We might look at what scientific discovery has found, and just see if some of that goes well with Scripture. Some may not, but there are plenty of Christians that hold to an old earth model without embracing anything of Darwin.

Answer 3

One thing you might consider...one of the oldest surviving history and culture in modern times are the Chinese...they have written history that goes back nearly 5000 years. So that would mean they have been continuing their culture since the Tower of Babel era. Perhaps the 5-6 thousand years should add another thousand to the estimate. Scientists don't really know the actual age of dinosaur bones, especially if they are relying on carbon dating...the flood ruined the effectiveness of carbon dating, because it introduced massive amounts of water into the world. They know that water drastically skews the way carbon turns out when using it for carbon dating. All of those things are estimates based on the presumption that Darwin's Theory is fact. Which has not been proven by their scientific method yet...after all, who can create a living thing, and allow it to evolve? So it hasn't been tested.

Answer 4

No, the Bible isn't a scientific treatise. additionally, the Bible make no declare to teach the life of God and directs the reader to look someplace else for such data. This being the case the Bible should not be seen probative in any way. The Bible starts off with this proposition" interior the commencing up God created the heavens and the earth" if the reader would not settle for that proposition he prefer not examine any further because of the fact the Bible does not something to objective to teach that proposition. in case you do not settle for it already - there isn't something interior the Bible for you.

Answer 5

It doesn't say that. It "says" it when someone cross-references the begats and counts up the ages of people. The most consistent count puts the beginning of creation on a Thursday afternoon in the autumn of 4004 BCE. So if you're a literalist, the Earth is 6011 years old. If you're not, there may have been some gaps in the count.

Answer 6

Here is the plain and simple truth about that: the Earth is more than 4 billion years old. And the bible does NOT contradict that.

The book of Genisis states that God created the heavens and the Earth in seven days but the sun was not created until several days into the duration of those days. Therefore, having nothing to rotate around the Earth would not have had 24 hour days not 365 days.

Meaning - quite literally - there is no way, biblically speaking, to quantify the age of the Earth.

Answer 7

It doesn't. That is a calculation that was made a few centuries less than two millenia ago based on events from the bible that roughly coincide with historical event, combined with heavy doses of astrology.

Answer 8

Civilization occurred first in the middle east around 5000 B.C.

Answer 9

The bible doesn't give the age of the Earth.

Answer 10

The bible states "In the beginning"

that means beginning, not middle, not sometime after the beginning.

It goes on to state. God created the heavens and the earth.

Now, it states that God did this in seven days, actually six days with one day of rest.
Now, we know that God could have spoken all this into existence, he certainly did not need to take six days to create all of this and us.

He did this in six days to give us the work week and the rest day. There would have been no need to do all of this billions of years before he created us.

Adam and Eve were created during this six days, and we have the years that Adam lived, and his geneology.

Now, we may not have the age of the heavens and the earth down to the day and hour, but we know that it is no where near millions or billions.

The more we learn, the more we know that we know less and less.