Does the bible tell how long ago the world was created?
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appoximately 6,000 yrs. ago: From creation to the flood; then from flood to Jesus; then from Jesus to now.  Each dispensation was 2000 yrs or more.  the bible says the next dispensation will only be one thousand yrs ( the millenial reign)  when we live on planet earth with Jesus as king of kings.  He will rule out of Jerusalem.  We are looking for the rapture of the saved now (or the catching away as told in thessalonians)  then there will be 7 yrs tribulation before we go into the 1,000 yr reign.
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How about the fact that the entire scientific community accepts the age of the earth to be 4.6 billion years old?\n\nI have no idea what sources you're reading from or even if you just made all that up, but science is in no way "proving" the Bible. If anything, it's proving that the Biblical creation story is even LESS likely to actually have happened than we originally thought.\n\nAdam & Eve? Mainstream scientists laugh at that, man.
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One could say the universe was created in 7 days.  A day is one rotation of the world.  How is it that God created some of these things when there was no globe in which to register this amount of time.  The bible also says that 1000 years are not even a day to god.  If god was the only one around then time was mostly on his own watch, most likely that is.  So no I don't believe the whole 7 days thing.\n\nI like biblical literalist.  I wonder if the first guy believes the sun rotates around the world as it states in the bible.
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I believe it is about 6,000 years old, based on a plain sense reading of the Scriptures alone.  The Bible also explains dinosaurs very well. Dinosaurs are land animals. Land animals were created on Day 6, thus dinosaurs were created on the same day as Man, and Man walked with dinosaurs originally. The dinosaurs, like all the others, were vegetarian in their diet. There was no death before the fall, and all ate plants and fruits. The sin of Adam changed many things, and perhaps carnivory began after the fall. Two of each kind of dinosaur went up the Ark (the rest died in the flood waters), they left the Ark, and many went extinct like any other animal that has gone extinct. We have stories and legends of men dueling and killing monsters or dragons which are most likely based on the encounters with surviving dinosaurs. You won’t find the word “dinosaur” in our Bibles because it was a word invented in 1842, after the Bible was translated into English. Instead we have words like Behemoth and Leviathan which are descrined in detail in Job. And when dinosaur bones are being dug up, there are no tell tale labels about how old they are. In fact, scientists have found red blood cells and muscle tissue when they cut opened the T-Rex fossils. The implication of this finding is that the fossils aren’t millions of years old.
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gino_gg your not going to get a clear answer from creationists. They'll simply point to the bible and make a quote from the bible to be fact, despite the fact that the bible is inconsistent with some of the stories\nfor example\nGE 1:11-12, 26-27 Trees were created before man was created.\nGE 2:4-9 Man was created before trees were created.\n\nIt will be difficult to show creationists that evolution is factual
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Fools of faith.  I always enjoy asking devout Christians if they believe in dinosaurs.  When they say yes I ask them how long ago they lived.  When they say millions of years ago I ask them how that could be when the Bible says the Earth is only 6000 years old!  It's funny watching them try to squirm their way outta that one.
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The Bible doesn't specifically say. Some people have added up the ages of all the people and come to the conclusion that the earth is not very old. This assumes that every person who was said to have begotten another was the immediate preceding generation; when it could have meant 'the ancestor of'. \n\nThere could also have been a long gap between when God created the heavens and when He created the Earth. We are told that there was war in Heaven (Revelation) and that Satan was cast out of Heaven. Considering that Satan thought he had a chance against God, that must have been some fight. \n\nThe first description of Earth is that Earth was without form and void. How did it get that way? I figure that God had already begun to work but Satan tried to wreck everything. Then when God got back to work, things were not 'perfect', but He looked at everything that he had made and they were still 'very good', i.e., they could be salvaged. He didn't see the need to tear everything down and start from scratch.\n\nI don't have a problem with the universe being old or young. My eternal destiny doesn't hang on that. What bothers me is that people cling to such flimsy excuses for not believing in an all powerful, all wise, loving Creator, Who came in person to die for us and redeem us. I hope you won't let yorself be distracted from getting to know God by matters like this. They doesn't prove anything one way or the other.
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The Book of Genesis deals with the fact that God created the earth. It was written in a manner that could be understood by primitive wandering cultures. Now we can say that the Bible is wrong about creation or that science does not have it right as far as creation is concerned. I don't agree with either point. I believe the best way to look at this is God created everything. How God did this, is still a mystery to we humans that are His  one of His creations.\n\nEvolution is a theory that is still listed as unproven. This means that Evolution is our best guess at this time with the evidence we now have of how our world and the life within it came into being and now exists. It does not mean that it is the way it happened. As with the Bible we have to live in faith.
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Open your Bible to the very first page (not the title page).  There, it says on the 6th day of creation.
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according to the bible its only 6000 years old\nthen i though about it, roflmao, ha, yea right, not\n\ni would say that the evidence is that we can only see\nabout 13 billion light years away (ABELL 1835 IR1916)\nadd 400 million years to that (time for stars to form)\nand you get 13.4 billion years old\ni dont see that as young\nbut compaired to the age of the earth that isnt that old
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Scientific evidence suggests that the Earth is actually around 4 billion years old.  We have shown that many fossils are more than 6000 years old by using carbon-testing and other accurate tests.  We have used geological evidence as well.  Thus, that prediction of the Bible is probably incorrect, although that doesn't mean that you should disregard the Bible.
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If you use the bible as your history book. Otherwise there's just speculation of what could have happened 2000 years ago.
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depending on who you ask....\n\ni'm a christian, who's looked into and studied the past and how to explain the existence of dinosaurs and how it could correlate with the bible.\n\ni believe the earth was made in 6 days and adam and eve and the "dinosaurs" were made.  and like someone else said, basically back then the earth was like a huge greenhouse... everything was much larger than they are nowadays.  and also like someone else said, there has been proof found that humans coexisted with dinosaurs (that link above).  and there is also proof that carbon-14 dating can be highly inaccurate (they tested a bone and the skin attached to it... they came up with millions of years difference between the skin and bone of the same animal!!!).  so just because all these scientists say this stuff doesn't mean that the bible can be easily discounted...\n\nscience is what you make it and can be easily skewed... i know this, i'm a science major!!!!  also from all my science classes... i really really don't find the whole evolution idea plausible.... to me, personally, having a belief in a superior being creating everything is more likely than everything evolving from an amoeba.  but hey, that idea runs better with other people and they have no room for believing in a being and hey, that's their choice.\n\nso i personally think that when the floods came (also when that greenhouse effect i mentioned earlier ended) that maybe the dinosaurs habitats were too effected that they died out and became extinct?\n\ni do agree with animals and such becoming better adapted over time.  i mean, we have too... if the environment changes, we need to keep up, otherwise we'll go the way of the dinosaurs.\n\nand for reference, the bible puts the earth at around 12,000 years old.
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No. A day is a measured period of time and can be a thousand years or many thousands of years. The Bible's creative days allows for thousands of years of time each. Reasonably, each "day" of creation is the same length as the others, even as the days of the week are of equal length. So, the length of each of the seven "days" of creation is about 7,000 years, according to Bible chronology. Note, that Jehovah God proceeded to rest on the seventh day, and their is no indication the "day" had concluded. The "day" of God's rest continues now nearly 6,000 years. Also, their would be a thousand-year reign of Christ, yet to come.--Revelation 20: 1-6. For more information, go to this website: www.watchtower.org.
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Here is something for you to ponder.....\nScientists claim that the earth is millions of years old. They make this claim by studying the layers of the earth (example: The Grand Canyon) If you look at the walls of the grand canyon, you can see many different layers of sediment on the walls of the canyon. The heavier and most dense rocks and solid formations are near the bottom of the canyon itself. The softer, less dense earth materials are nearer to the top of the canyon. Now...they claim this took millions or billions of years to happen.\nHere is a simple experiement to prove that theory wrong. Take a large jar or clear glass container and fill it with water (simulating the great flood of Noahs time) next fill it with sand, rocks, dirt and other earthly materials of your own choice....shake it all up to make a nice mixture. Within mere minutes you will see that the heavier earthly materials like the rocks and clay will sink to the bottom and the softer less dense materials will remain at the top and all of this will occur within minutes, not years. To me, this simple experiemnt is proof that the earth is not billions of years old and that the great flood that God put on this earth happend only a few thousand years ago, just around the time Jesus walked the earth! Think about it! I personally do believe there is a God, but I believe that scientists are wrong when they contemplate the earths age and structure, God does exist, in what form I do not know, but he does exist in some way and I get the feeling he is pissed off at most of us...So have faith my friend....Scientists are not always right by any means, God walked the earth only a few thousand years ago....not billions like scientists claim.
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The Earth was formed around 4.57 billion (4.57×109)[1] years ago
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The biblical creation dates back about 6,000 years.  As we know, there are fossil remains of humanoids that are in excess of 1M years.  Houston, we have a problem!\n\nActually the problem comes from the translation of the Hebrew and Greek into the English language.  To find the answers to this and a lot of other questions, we need to go back and look at the meaning of the original words.  In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  And the earth was without form, and void…\n\nThe “creation” of the animals and Adam & Eve was not the first time that there was a creation.  We know this because the Greek word is not “created” but is “restored.”  We also see that in Genesis, Lucifer had already commanded cities and had been alienated by God.  One would surmise that the cities contained inhabitants.\n\nThe fact is, there is a whole lot of stuff that happened before Genesis 1:2 that isn’t dwelt upon very much.   It is apparently of no consequence to us or God would have elaborated on it more.  It isn’t going to affect your doctrine of salvation but it is rather interesting to think about.\n\nOther items of interest (but not of great importance)… People used to live to be several hundred years old.  Were the years in error?  Let’s take a look: \n\n Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel and Seth never saw the sun or the stars.  Why not?  Because there was a layer of water suspended about where the ionosphere is today.  This layer of water caused the temperature of the entire planet to me almost equal.  (and very humid)  The humidity allowed plants to prosper without rainfall because of the ambient moisture.\n\nAlso, the weight of the water caused the atmospheric pressure to be considerably greater than our 14.7 psi.  Some scientists believe it was at least 29 to 30. (It was discovered that astronauts healed of minor cuts & scratches much more quickly when they were kept in an artificially high pressurized chamber.)\n\nThe layer of water protected earth from the constant bombardment of cosmic radiation from the sun.  (We know what drastic effects are caused by just a thinning of the ozone layer.)\n\nWhen you read your bible, take note of when people lost their longevity.  Right after the great flood of Noah, there were some significant differences.  Noah and his family were apparently the first people to actually see the sun, moon and stars and to discover why there was day and night.\n\nJohnny