Christians: Do you believe?

Question

Really believe the Earth is only 6,000 years old? I am a Bible-believing Christian, and it is more than a little embarrassing that some of us defend that, and how silly and uninformed it makes us look.
The Bible says it was a "day" in each step of creation - but please don't be so locked in that only means 24 hours. Other scripture says that "to God a day is as a thousand years" - and his creative day could be thousands our millions of our years - don't you get that? It doesn't lessen God or his creative ability (creation) any at all.
There is proof that any person, believer or non-believer, has that the Earth is 4.4 - 4.6 billion years old - no problem! Carbon dating isn't wrong, not are the fossil records. Nor is micro-evolution... we just lose tons of credibility with non-believers when we dispute what really is provable, legitimate evidence of the Earth's age.
God did it all! But not 6,000 years ago.

I am non-denominational...

One day has to be 24 hours? Didn't people also used to live to be 800 years old?
This is the locked in part some believers have - God could maintain the grass if he wants to also... just push the provable evidence aside because it doesn't fit my box?

Hi - Janean - He can, you are making the evidence fit your beliefs.

Answer 1

Standing ovation for you my friend.

Evolution theory doesn't explain it all and I do sometimes think God intended for species to be flexible and change over time. I am glad there are people like you out in the world defending Christianity and God with logical arguments. Thank you.

Answer 2

I am a Christian who believes in the basic ideas of the Gap Theory of Genesis 1:1 - 1:2. Perhaps you will Google that. The main part of the Christian world does not believe in the theory, but I differ with them as I am not bound to tradition, but also I have done a search of the concordance as to the words which are used in those verses.

Lean on the Holy Spirit and search it for yourself. How many ways can Genesis 1:2 be translated from the Hebrew? Give it a try. I find that tradition does not typically offer a good enough translation in controversial issues.

http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?new=1&word=Genesis+1%3A2§ion=0&version=str&language=en

Answer 3

I've seen this question asked so many times in Yahoo Answers, as religious people try so desperately to come to terms with the true hard facts of science and their own beliefs.

The Bible quite clearly says a day "and the morning and the night was the first day". Are you going to say that milleniums have "mornings and nights"?

This is where you have to decide if, the core of your beliefs are flawed, or the bible is flawed, or whether volumes of evidence and documentation is wrong.
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I also find amusing, as your subsequent response, when confronted with another obstacle, "morning and night were the first day", how you come up with another fantastic theory to make your own beliefs fit. That's just uneducated desperation. Like the contributor below stated, you can believe in Science and be religious, but you WILL have to admit that the Bible is flawed.

Answer 4

All days would HAVE to of been 24 hour, regular days. He created plants and vegitation before night and day. Say you believe each day was 1000 year periods. If he created plants throughout the earth, and they sat on the side of the earth that was dark. they would be in the dark for 1000 years, they would surely die.

Also, animals came after the plants and night and day. Plants couldnt go for 1000 years without carbon dioxide.


Hope this helped a little,
Janean

edit-- How do you know god didnt put all this so called "evidence" on earth to test our faith. God is cool like that, so he can do that kinda stuff.

Answer 5

Well it not only disagrees with science on the time scale. Genesis has plants being created on day three and the Sun and stars on day four. So what you are saying is that plants were around thousands of years before the Sun that feeds them.

It is fine to believe in both science and the Bible, but you are saying that parts of the Bible are totally wrong if you do.

Answer 6

It depends on how you want to interpret the bible: (1) as a historical, factual account of the times or (2) a parable with some factual evidence. That is where your faith and your asking why have to come to an agreement. Then you will no the answer. Good luck.

Answer 7

I have no issues with evolution, it does not change for me the fact (faith based fact, LOL), that God created everything. I honestly think we do not know enough to come up with an explanation that ties in what Christians believe. I don't know if you have watched Indescribable by Louie Giglio, he says it there too, its like God is just waiting for science to prove him, that day may not be today, though. I just don't believe in the Big-Bang theory, but evolution is plausible to possible.

Answer 8

I'm a Christian who find the idea of a 6,000-year-old earth ludicrous. I'm also a science teacher.

Answer 9

I do not believe the Earth is 6,000 years old - I think it was Larissa who told of an explanation a Rabbi told her, that each day was actually a stage of evolution - that's what i believe.

Answer 10

Why does it say in Genesis "So the evening and the morning were the first day." and "So the evening and the morning were the second day." and "So the evening and the morning were the third day." and "So the evening and the morning were the fourth day." and "So the evening and the morning were the fifth day." and "So the evening and the morning were the sixth day." Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made." ?? EVENING AND MORNING- He said it that way to make a point. To show us it was actually ONE DAY.