Hello,
I write mainly because I have a friend who has been struggling with his belief and I wanted to get some answered from other believers hoping maybe I could help him ease his mind.
He believes strongly in the bible and an old earth.
The problem is as follows..
Have humans been around 6000 years or 500.000 years?
Using the bible to trace back by using Biblical Genealogical records (If that is what it transelates too, I am not sure. it would for instance be used to say Noah lived about 4300 years ago which would have been about the time of the flood.)
And using the same methode dating back all the way to Adam and Eve at roughly 6000 years ago.
The problem being that I know and he knows that humans are quite a bit older then that, and the bible seems to disagree. We dont know how else to interprete the bible since it seems pretty straight forward, however I am fairly sure not all christians believe man was put on the old earth 6000 years ago.
So my question is how do you reconcile that in a way that actually makes sense?
I write mainly because I have a friend who has been struggling with his belief and I wanted to get some answered from other believers hoping maybe I could help him ease his mind.
He believes strongly in the bible and an old earth.
The problem is as follows..
Have humans been around 6000 years or 500.000 years?
Using the bible to trace back by using Biblical Genealogical records (If that is what it transelates too, I am not sure. it would for instance be used to say Noah lived about 4300 years ago which would have been about the time of the flood.)
And using the same methode dating back all the way to Adam and Eve at roughly 6000 years ago.
The problem being that I know and he knows that humans are quite a bit older then that, and the bible seems to disagree. We dont know how else to interprete the bible since it seems pretty straight forward, however I am fairly sure not all christians believe man was put on the old earth 6000 years ago.
So my question is how do you reconcile that in a way that actually makes sense?