Zone1 How old is the Earth in your opinion?

[Zebra]

There are different opinions about this.

I wonder what you believe.

 

[Oddball]

Literally older than dirt.

 

[Zebra]

Literally older than dirt.

how much older?

 

[Zebra]

about 4.5 billion years ....

 

[Cougarbear]

There are different opinions about this.

I wonder what you believe.

So far, your responses have been from atheists. My response is that it's unimportant in the grand scheme of things. We are here on earth for just a flicker and we are gone. So, it's more important to believe and have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and follow his teachings to love the Lord thy God with all your heart and then love they neighbor as thyself.
With that said, our fold of human beings began with Adam and Eve about 6,000 years ago. We do not know how long Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden. I know many Christians believe the word "day" in the Bible represent a 1,000 years. But, that's if all things are equal with our understanding of our earth today. After all, according to Genesis, the universe was not observable during the first three days. So, were the other galaxies in existence before the 4th day? "Heaven" in the first verse doesn't mean the galaxies. Heaven is the firmament. What is the firmament? It reads like the firmament or heaven was more a series of river-like structures of unorganized matter. Kind of like plains of energy. Did that any time?

 

[fncceo]

 

[toobfreak]

There are different opinions about this.
I wonder what you believe.

Actually, it is pretty settled science. Depending on what stage of accretion you use, the Earth formed about 4.5 to 4.7 billion years ago.

 

[onefour1]

All we know from scripture is that "in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth". The earth already existed prior to the seven days of creation spoken of in Genesis, Moses, Abraham, etc. So there is no indication of time in scripture of when the earth was created other than in the beginning.

Genesis 1:1-2
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Moses 2:1-2
1 And it came to pass that the Lord spake unto Moses, saying: Behold, I reveal unto you concerning this heaven, and this earth; write the words which I speak. I am the Beginning and the End, the Almighty God; by mine Only Begotten I created these things; yea, in the beginning I created the heaven, and the earth upon which thou standest.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and I caused darkness to come up upon the face of the deep; and my Spirit moved upon the face of the water; for I am God.

Abraham 4:1-2
1 And then the Lord said: Let us go down. And they went down at the beginning, and they, that is the Gods, organized and formed the heavens and the earth.
2 And the earth, after it was formed, was empty and desolate, because they had not formed anything but the earth; and darkness reigned upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of the Gods was brooding upon the face of the waters.

 

[JanetTheGreat]

Anyone who is peddling the 6,000 year old stuff is full of BS. The Earth's age is well confirmed at around 4.5 billion years.

 

[onefour1]

There is however, scriptural evidence that the seven days of creation are 1000 years each. The earth already existed prior to the seven days of creation so this does not include the creation of the earth.

In the Bible we read:

2 Peter 3:8
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

God told Adam that in the day that he eats of the forbidden fruit that he would surely die. According to our time of reckoning, Adam lived to be 930 years old (see Genesis 5:5). If one day to the Lord was 1000 years of our time, then Adam would have died in the very day of the Lord that he partook of the fruit.



Abraham 3:4
4 And the Lord said unto me, by the Urim and Thummim, that Kolob was after the manner of the Lord, according to its times and seasons in the revolutions thereof; that one revolution was a day unto the Lord, after his manner of reckoning, it being one thousand years according to the time appointed unto that whereon thou standest. This is the reckoning of the Lord’s time, according to the reckoning of Kolob.

Abraham 5:12-13
12 And the Gods commanded the man, saying: Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat,
13 But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the time that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Now I, Abraham, saw that it was after the Lord’s time, which was after the time of Kolob; for as yet the Gods had not appointed unto Adam his reckoning.

According to these verses, Adam had not been given his time of reckoning all the way up to the time he was placed into the Garden of Eden. Abraham verifies that it was after the time of Kolob which was after the Lord's time which was a thousand of our years being equivalent to 1 day according to the Lord's time. From all this scriptural evidence, the seven days of creation (which did not include the creation of the earth) was seven thousand years of our time.

 

[Zebra]

nobody voted for 7 days

 

[Zebra]

There is however, scriptural evidence that the seven days of creation are 1000 years each. The earth already existed prior to the seven days of creation so this does not include the creation of the earth.

In the Bible we read:

2 Peter 3:8
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

God told Adam that in the day that he eats of the forbidden fruit that he would surely die. According to our time of reckoning, Adam lived to be 930 years old (see Genesis 5:5). If one day to the Lord was 1000 years of our time, then Adam would have died in the very day of the Lord that he partook of the fruit.



Abraham 3:4
4 And the Lord said unto me, by the Urim and Thummim, that Kolob was after the manner of the Lord, according to its times and seasons in the revolutions thereof; that one revolution was a day unto the Lord, after his manner of reckoning, it being one thousand years according to the time appointed unto that whereon thou standest. This is the reckoning of the Lord’s time, according to the reckoning of Kolob.

Abraham 5:12-13
12 And the Gods commanded the man, saying: Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat,
13 But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the time that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Now I, Abraham, saw that it was after the Lord’s time, which was after the time of Kolob; for as yet the Gods had not appointed unto Adam his reckoning.

According to these verses, Adam had not been given his time of reckoning all the way up to the time he was placed into the Garden of Eden. Abraham verifies that it was after the time of Kolob which was after the Lord's time which was a thousand of our years being equivalent to 1 day according to the Lord's time. From all this scriptural evidence, the seven days of creation (which did not include the creation of the earth) was seven thousand years of our time.

if you think so, why dont you vote for it?

 

[Zebra]

Now where are all those who think that the world is 6.000 years old?

 

[Zebra]

Anyone who is peddling the 6,000 year old stuff is full of BS. The Earth's age is well confirmed at around 4.5 billion years.

That is common knowledge.

 

[onefour1]

if you think so, why dont you vote for it?

• 
  less than 6.000 Its not less than 6000
• 6.000 It is more than 6000
• 7.000 It is more than 7000
• many years more many years more than what?
• about 4.5 billion I don't know that it is 4.5 billion years old
• nobody knows God and Jesus certainly know
• I dont want to know I would like to know

 

[Zebra]

about 4.5 billion years ....

so say 9 of 11 now

 

[Zebra]

nobody yet voted for those 6000 years

 

[Zebra]

a satirical theory ... says, thebworld was created last Thursday

 

[onefour1]

Each day of creation was reckoned after God said, "let there be light". The light determined the evening and the morning from which each day was counted. The earth was created before light was introduced upon the earth and we don't have a record of how long before the light was introduced. I believe that the seven days of evening and morning were 1000 of our years each. However we still don't know how long before the light was introduced that the earth was actually created. I believe our temporal existence on earth (from the fall of Adam and Eve to the end of Christ's millennial reign on earth) will be another 7000 years. So right now I believe we are approaching the second coming millennial reign of Jesus. So the earth's seven days of creation was 7000 years and the earth's temporal existence is another 7000 years of which approximately 6000 have nearly transpired. However, this does not include the time from when the earth was created until the time that God introduced light upon the earth. After the millennial reign of Jesus on the earth, the earth will be changed to receive a celestial glory and become part of heaven. So I believe the earth is over 13000 years old but I don't know how much over the 13,000 years that the earth was actually created.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Genesis 1:1-2
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

The Gap Theory
the second verse is: And the earth BECAME without form and void.
There is an undisclosed number of years between the first and second verse