Bible Discussion Thread

Does the KJ Bible tell us or give clues as to how old the Earth is? Or maybe how long between Genesis 1:1 and the birth of Jesus Christ?

I tried researching the topic on the internetThe general consensus of Christianity I found was as follows:

1.God creates everything (including earth, the heavens & all living beings) in 6 days then rests on the 7th.(Genesis)

2. Jesus is sent from heaven to earth (approximately 4000 years later)& lives approximately 33 yrs. After resurrecting from the dead 3 days later, he ascends back up to heaven. This event (1-A.D.) marks the beginning of the calendar we currently use today.

Using the above references3

4000+33+2021= 6054 years since creation.

Does the Bible actually say anything to contradict the (30 minutes of) research I performedor possibly interpret the passing of time differently?

Archaeology, carbon dating show us earth is older than 6000 years. Scripture too. Use the Search Box and type: Conies. When earth was hit with an asteroid, scientists say little Coney type creatures were underground and survived. It's interesting.

Astronomers today have seen LAKE BEDS on every planet. All are dry lake beds except earth; we have abundant fresh water for people and creatures.

Some scriptures say God turned the world upside down. You need study Reference Bibles, to track connecting references to other scriptures of a same or like, event.

What would kill all living creatures (like dinosaurs all at the same time?

Where did preHISTORIC people remains come from?

I mean no offense when I say: what is wrong with us starting at Genesis 1:1. Flip to Romans 1:18-25

For Genesis students, the first thing God created is TIME. It's well hidden, but original Hebrew said: In Beginning

Writers, inserted THE, so our English minds could follow the thought.

God said, LIGHT BE.

Rather than debate it, fight and confuse others with proper english_observe what God is saying and doing. He wants us to know.

Genesis 1:1

The Father purposes

The Word (Jesus) speaks. ( John 1:1)

The Spirit (Holy Spirit) executes the spoken word. Action.

FOUR THINGS scientists seek to explain:

TIME, FORCE, ACTION, MATTER

They've never proved TIME. Who told me? The Holy Spirit. I went through a lot of Hebrew books till I found one that said: in beginning. That's Word enough for me. If the Holy Spirit says it; it's truth. He was there.

I truly hope this will free us, to move along to all of the books of the Bible. We're are in the events Christ spoke of In Matthew 24 and Luke 21; 2 Peter 3; Revelation.

Time and this Bible is totally about JESUS CHRIST. It's his story. We will be judged according to how we've lifted Him up and told others His Story.

It's controversial but I honestly believe the Earth to be over 7 Billion years old. Someone had mentioned pre-gap and I do believe there was a prior creation (dinosaurs and other beasts). I also believe that Lucifer was cast down from Heaven eons before God created man. In archaeology, similar have stated that after the cataclysmic event that killed the dinosaurs...there was darkness open the face of the deep. Clouds blocked out the sun around all the Earth, the land masses were flooded (possibly by the comet that struck what's now Mexico) and there was no life. Again, I am not encouraging anyone partake whether this is truth or not as that's your prerogative this may be something we don't know for certain until we can ask God Himself.

About the 6,000 year old Earth dating comes from the Angelican publishings of James Ussher in the 14th-century. It's not suggested in the Holy Bible and I'd ask any one to try to date Genesis. I imagine Moses (during His life) may not have known how old the story of the garden (Adam & Eve, the Garden of Eden) was but the writings were giving to Him by God. Read about the council of Ussher and it seems there was a debate going on during that time about the age of the Bible related to the Earth. Long story short, Ussher won the dispute and they published his dates. One of those things that I consider equally as controversial as those on the side of pre-gap.

Good afternoon Daniel,

I think that we may never know if there was actually a gap of time between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. Perhaps God does not want us to know. But again, maybe we will find something out scientifically to show evidence of such a gap.

When I get to heaven I will enjoy finding out the whole story. I am sure that learning this will make me praise God even more!

God bless you today! It is good to have you posting here.

Well today (April 2022) in Israel the date is 5782 (the month is Nissan) since the creation of the world. So this gives you the answer for what the Masoretic text says about it .

Dear Patrick

Modern interpretation of the book of Genesis states that the periods of time that are called "days" in Genesis were actually millions and billions of years. God used the term days just for simplicity. God's intention was not to give a scientific account of the happenings in the beginning of the world but a general idea for what happened. Don't forget that the Bible was also read by people in the prehistoric era with no knowledge at all about those things. This is also my opinion. Now from Adam's time till nowadays is about 6000-6500 years roughly, depends on which Old Testament you read. There is i think. a 500 year difference between the Masoretic text and the Septuagint text. Some theologists teach that the first years of mankind written in Bible are symbolic, so the actual time was considerably longer, thus trying to compromise the Bible with the "scientific foundings". Wrong in my opinion.

GBU

2Peter 3:8, Psalms 90:4,

Genesis 7:11, Exodus 12:1,2,

Matthew 1:17,

Hopefully these are helpful