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1 | How old is the earth scripturally? | Gen 1:1 | 101 | |||
There is no solid conclusive evidence in scripture to give a date of how old the earth is. It is possible to calculate the ages of Adam and his discendants and GUESS the date, but this is not conclusive either. Many have suggested that the earth could be as old as evolutionist say, justifying that answer by saying God could have created it that way or a day with God is like a thousand years to us. This dont stand either if you understand the Bible as Gods perfect Word...inerrant and infalliable, God Breathed...It says that a day is a day, morning and night and it was a day...period. Nothing in the text...which is where our answers have to come from...says that we should belive otherwise. Lets not limit God by suggesting that He would NEED billions of years to create the world and all that is in it. As far as scientist dating the earth by carbon dating and such, note...conclusively, one must first date an object that has a known age to be sure that your dating method is accurate. I dont think we have and witnesses to items billions of years ago. How can they be sure the date is correct. Is it accurate plus or minus a few million years. Think about it, a few million is a huge amount of time to be off. Also note... It does not require millions of years to form land masses like the Grand Canyon. Scientist know for certain that massive gorges were formed in just hours when Mt St. Helens erupted. Evolutionist have a real hard time with events like a world wide flood. It messes up the Geological column...ie. fossils are stirred up and settle in a ramdon order, not in the approiate strata layer like they need... For a really good argument to give and evolutionist, ask they How do scientist date fossils? They say by the strata layer that they are found in...Then ask How do you date the strata layer then? The answer is in any Encyclopedia...strata is dated by the fossils found in them! This is a circular argument. These types of Evolution break downs are limitless. Consult the Institute for Creation Research, ..ICR.. on the web for more. By the way, The THEORY of evolution is not even a theory. The scientific method requires a theory be something that is testable and retestable with reasonably close results...evolution is not testable first of all and definately not retestable. It is only a hypothisis or maybe better said a scientific guess. Last, as you try to find out how old the earth is, keep these thoughts in mind...1.God does not need millions of years to create. 2.In the beginning God created the heavens and earth...and not once after that did He feel it necessary to prove it to anyone, nor do we bare that burden. 3.ONLY, evolutionist NEED the earth to be a certain age, and that is very, very old. Else their guess would not have enough time to make all of those mutations. How old is the earth? Im not really sure. Not billions for certain! The Biblical guess is somewhere between 6 to 15 thousand years. My answer is ..it is not as important as many think.. Did God create all of it just the way He said He did?...is a more improtant question. If you dont believe Genesis chapters 1-11 to be totally accurate and literal, then the rest of your Bible is of no use to you. God does not need a human justification or scientific explanation of His ability to create. | ||||||
2 | How old is the earth scripturally? | Gen 1:1 | GBzones | 206359 | ||
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" The confusion comes from the misdirection most versions give by putting heavenS instead of heaveN. Sowhen you ocme to gen 2 vse 1 which all say heavenS.You are misled to think that gen 2 and gen 1 are the same heaven. The EARTH was without form and void. Not HEAVEN. and from gen 1 vrse 2 The scriptures speak about the EARTH! Till it comes to the firmiment which was called HEAVEN! Thus there is a heaven of 'earth' and there is the HEAVEN where Gods throne is from which the devil was cast down by lightning. etc asnd which w epray as it were thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Moreover the scriptures say the "the foundations of the earth are established forever" So albeit an earth might eb destroyed andlaid waste in judgement(see jerimiah)or in a flood. The foundations are not moved. The age of the earth therefore is a lot longer than the age of man(6000 years aprox) Thus even as the waters covered the deep before the light. So it would seem the waters covered the deep after the flood. The evolutionists beleive a lie. and" so called science"(pauls words not mine)has bene forced to concede that all things began from one point. But their idea is of a balloon it seems (hot air?)going bang! Rather than an almighty God creating soemthing out of nothing. "Calling those things that are not as though they were." After the fist billion or so the mind goes fuzzy at the edges then the devil slips in . The question is not did God create it in six dasy is WHY He took so long? There are reasons then why He did so. and we should forget about trying to answer ignorant men who rerfuse to beleieve the truth.and who will not unless God shows them mercy. But rather seek god as to WHY he took 6 days . Now that is a better question! gerald |
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