Subject: a B.C. date for creation? |
Bible Note: Well, a study of I and II Sam, I and II Kings and I and II Chron. give a continuous timeline of the reign of the kings of Israel and Judah. Beginning with 586 B.C. the last year of the reign of Zedekiah (when Babylon overthrew Jerusalem) the dates of the reign of Solomon king of Israel would be from 978 B.C. to about 1018 B.C. Then I Kings 6:1 shows 480 years from Solomon's fourth year as king to the exodus from Egypt (approx. 1495 B.C). Mt. Sinai took place two years AFTER they left Egypt 1494 or 1493 B.C. (Num. 9:1) They were in Egypt for 430 years - Ex. 12:40 (400 years as slaves 30 years as free men before they became slaves). Jacob was 130 years old (1926 or 1925 B.C.) Gen. 47:9. So Jacob was born about 2057-2055 B.C. Isaac was 60 years old when Jacob was born. So Isaac was born about 2118-2115 B.C. a year after the destruction of Sodom and Gommorha (2119-2116 B.C.). Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac was born and 99 years old when Sodom and Gommorha were destroyed (Gen. 17:24 through 19:38 and 21:5). So Abraham was born about 2219-2215 B.C. when his father Terah was 70 (Gen. 11:26). From there it was a simple matter to add the lives of the patriarch immediately after the flood from Gen. chapter 11 to each date to discover the year of the flood was about 2519-2507 B.C. Noah was then 600 years old (Gen. 7:11). Now read Gen. chapter 5. As far as I can tell creation took place between the years 4163 and 4183 B.C. The reason the discrepency of the dates grows from Solomon to Adam is because the Bible doesn't give the month and day of these peoples births - only the age of the father when the son was born. Consider if the father (let's say Terah) was born in December (or what we would now call December LOL) of the year 2285 B.C. and his son (Abraham) was born in January, when Tearh was 70 years old, it would have to be in the year 2214 (71 years later. For this reason the "range" of the dates grows by half a year for each generation (to cover the possibility that a year would "turn over" before the son was born). Giving a date for creation of 4183-4163 B.C. Course it might even be more accurate to say that creation took place in the year 4173 B.C. give or take 10 years. Does anyone else have any ideas about this. I know that some consider the life spans of the patriarchs before the flood to be allegorical and not the actual length that they lived. However Gen. chapter 11 shows their life spans growing less and less until Terah who only lived 205 years and Abraham was only 175 years old when he died. Moses was 120. Anyway (because of Gen. 11) I think that those before the flood actually had much greater lifespans than we do know. Shem (Noah's son) was about 98 when the flood came and lived for 502 more years after the flood (Gen. 11:10-11). So I believe the account of their lifespans is, in fact, an accurate account of how long they lived. |
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