2007-12-15 17:19:53 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Of course not. If you're going to believe in god, that's one thing, but believing that the earth is 6,000 years old is just plain ignorance and gullibility.
2007-12-15 17:24:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
not all Christianity believes that the international is 6000 years old. i'm one that doesn't. i think of that the international became into right here long before that. It wasn't even initially utilized by using guy. If I even have it precise, the literal translation is ' a gathering place of clever creatures'. in case you seek for the hollow concept of Genesis a million:a million - a million:2 on a Google seek, you will discover an evidence of what the hollow concept of Genesis a million:a million - a million:2 is, and the justifications why Christianity does not settle for it. i'm not so classic, and that i even have translated the words decrease than question myself using a straight forward stable's Concordance - somebody can do it. What somebody can't do is settle for what the learn shows. custom makes maximum of Christians go through while it is composed of seeing actuality in this remember.
2016-10-11 09:30:02 · answer #2 · answered by pickford 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the bible is a collection of stories used to convey the teachings of jesus.
should everything be taken literally?
no, of course not
should the meaning and message be taken?
yes, why not?
the writers of the bible were not scientists,
and they did not have the technological means nor the intelligence to actually know the specific age of the earth (but what can scientists actually saw for sure about the earth now? esimations based upon findings that may or may not be specifically accurate)
if the writers of the bible said that the bible was really old, they meant it was really old
the didnt know how old
but 6000 years seems like a pretty long time to me.
so no, the bible is not a historical text, so it is not meant to be taken literally as a historical text
2007-12-15 17:27:49 · answer #3 · answered by jackie41190 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I do not believe that the bibles tells us how old the world is. There are genealogy lists in the bible, from Adam and Eve to the time of Christ. For instance it says that someone begat someone else. We do not know if that means that he begat him directly or that there were a 1,000 generations in between. Some people have assumed that all the begats listed were direct. Then they have assumed that a person was born and that 20 or 25 years later they begat his decedent, therefore the earth is so many years old, very unscientific thinking.
2007-12-15 18:42:42 · answer #4 · answered by Bibs 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Bible doesn't say that the Earth is 6000 years old, directly or axiomatically. Tradition might, but the Bible does not.
2007-12-15 17:29:53 · answer #5 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
One would think that in the Bible which is supposed to be the inspired word of god could at least be somewhat scientifically accurate. I mean honestly, if anyone knew the age of the Earth, then it should be god, so he could have at least gotten that part right, but nope, just one of the many things wrong in the bible.
2007-12-15 17:26:41 · answer #6 · answered by Pitchy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, and the Bible doesn't say that, man. That's a bizarre interpretation of 'God made the earth in 6 days'.
2007-12-15 17:23:16 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
no. the bible is wrong. just like how the sun doesnt revolve around the earth.
2007-12-15 17:22:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Its inbetween 6000 and 6500 years old.
2007-12-15 17:23:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
No, it is at least 4.5 billion years old.
2007-12-15 17:22:18 · answer #10 · answered by funaholic 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋