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I recently received some kid's educational materials in the mail and it had Noah's flood dated at 3500 BC. Most sources I have seen date it much later. Does anyone know the rationale for the 3500 BC date?
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Reps: 257,463,246,207,844,928 (power: 257,463,246,207,853) | | | You take Bishop Usher's calculation of the age of the earth as 4000bc or so, add up the dates in the Genesis genealogies and viola. Tho I've heard more along the lines of 3000 or 2500 bc.
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Reps: 438,424,544,228,374 (power: 438,424,544,231) | | Originally Posted by metherion  You take Bishop Usher's calculation of the age of the earth as 4000bc or so, add up the dates in the Genesis genealogies and viola. Tho I've heard more along the lines of 3000 or 2500 bc.
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Interesting. Do you have time to elaborate on how the geneologies show this? (fun video link not meant to make any point, just good times) |
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Reps: 257,463,246,207,844,928 (power: 257,463,246,207,853) | | | I'm not quite certain on exactly how they show the date since a literal worldwide Noah's Flood isn't an idea I subscribe to. I just know that they genealogies are generally how such dates are found. Um... if you have some time you might be able to just look and add up the ages when Adam begat a son, who begat another son at such and such an age, et cetera until Noah was begat and the Flood happened in his Xth year.
The would show how long after the Fall the Flood was.
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