My answer is …yes (one or the other) what is yours based on the information below.
Okay God most certiainly could created the world 6000 years ago. God can do anything. If He created it 6000 years ago, He would have by need have created it old. Because a new planet would not be hospitible to life. It would have to be CREATED Old. with fossils in place, erosion in place. the light we see from other stars would have been created in place 6000 years ago streaming into us at speed. So universe could most certainly be only 6000 years old. This is not beyond God’s ability to be sure.
OR
It could be 6 Billion ( or 4.5 or whatever the number du jour is)
Genesis 1:2 allows for an old earth that was restarted new.
2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was[a] on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
That word was, is actually not there in the original Hebrew, it a preposition that is implied by the tense used in the noun . In the some places in Genesis that same tense implication is translated as became so you could have:
And the earth WAS – BECAME without form and void
Implying that at the time of the narrative the earth was without form and void because it became that way….God in essence cooked the world for a few billion years getting it ready for man, and then wiped it out and started over. This would also explain all the gaps in the fossil records
Either way it was created, with an purpose and design. It did not blow out of an unexplained ball of mass, that magically spun in circles, that magically glomed together in stars which then fused the base hydrogen into every other element which then blew up again spewing this inorganic elements into space which again glomed together this times to form planets, in which these elements magically glomed together to form materials such as water and carbon dioxide, which formed in a puddle of in organic primordial ooze from which magically sprang (abiogenesis) a life for that survived to mutate into increasingingly more complex creatures for no apparent reason and no apparent environmental pressure to do so, surviving magically to form every kind of beast until one day its Pinnacle ..man was formed…who btw fills no ecological niche, has no enivromental function except to predate on all other enivornments and eco-systems….i think that is a fairy tale we can dismiss out of hand
So Christians what do you think? 6000 or 6 Billion?
Personally I am good with either.
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Christians, Is The Earth 6000, Or 6 Billion Years Old…based On The Bible?
Posted on May 5, 2011.
The Earth is NOT 6 billion years old!!!!!!! No true Christian would believe that!!!!
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In fact it is 4.5 billion years old. Based on empirical scientific evidence, may i add
Neither. It is 4.6 billion years old.
However valuable the Bible may be, it is there to tell us about God, not to be a source of scientifically accurate information about the age of the earth.
It is older then 6000 years and allot younger than 6 billion.
Well the building blocks used to build the earth (atoms) may be millions of years old. But the earth itself is not.
An example,
I built my house with river rocks. These are very, very old, and would be dated as such. But my house itself is only ten years old.
It is ridiculous to even try to say how old the earth is. god did not tell such things. Genesis one has not one thing to do with god creating our earth or universe.
those days have not one thing to do with our week.
No person knows one thing about the age of our earth or anything else out there. anyone who claims they do is deceiving their own self.
God did not tell it nor did he ever speak about it. carnal minded people, trying to interpret a spiritual book has led to all these silly delusions.
There is nothing in God’s word saying he restarted anything. He does not need to redo things. He is perfect and all his works are perfect, first time around.
Try to find true faith in God and do not waste time on such things as how old is earth. Eternity is in this equation and not one human being can begin to comprehend eternity.
Do not belittle God and his work in such a way.
Hint>> Genesis one is about the life of Jesus Christ and his Apostles, even down to our day right now. We are still a firmament in the heavens, dividing waters from waters.
that is what the truth I teach is doing…separating tares from wheat.
Only God knows. “Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth.” Colosians 3:2
6 billion. Based on the Bible? Well the Bible doesn’t say one way or the other…