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There is no "Hebrew Bible". There are several textual families. The Massoretic text (earliest copy is from the 9th century AD), The Septuagint (a Greek translation of an earlier, pre-massoretic text, having also several variants - Theodotion, Old Greek ...) and for example DSS (Isaiah from the...

Both are pre-scientific errors defended in the church by abusing the Bible (using it for another purpose than for which it was written).

Neither concordances or lexicons can give you understanding about the Bible as such. Concordances only give you places in a specific translation where words are used and lexicons tells you what those words mean in English. They only refers you to the text itself. Your dismissive stance towards...

When a text says that God said something that is provably wrong, then its the text that is wrong. Neither God nor reality can err, by definition. Bible can err and errs in many places, also provably - because - voila! - it was not written by God and inspiration is not dictation.

I am rather not interested, because my point is not that you cannot find any YEC outside the USA. However, they are not "visible", they are not active in public space, they do not take it to court, to schools etc like in the USA. They are a minority and they know it and behave accordingly...

Ok, so it cannot be used for the age of humanity. Humans are here hundreds of thousands if not millions of years, not 10,000 or 6,000 years.

I said nothing about leaving jobs or shutting down businesses. But you posted several times a harsh criticism of the "rich" western Christians, because you are poor and you think its more Christ-like.

None. The universe is neither 6,000 nor 10,000 years old. Biblical genealogies cannot be used for such task. They had cultural meanings, not literal ones.

Its what I get from your posts, not from any church.

Feel free to refer me to any French, German, Italian, Swiss, Dutch, Spanish, Norwegian... baptist church that teaches the YEC and was not influenced by some US material. Sad for Britain, if its in the same anti-intellectualism and anti-science as the USA. Not my point. Before science, church...

A useless post. I do not care what you bet about me. Focus on the topic.

Again, you do not know enough to have such conversations. There are several textual families and they yield different number if you sum them "in the Ussher's way". Get some good Bible dictionary. Or study these things a bit, before shooting posts about them. Your personal beliefs cannot make...

For example, geocentrism in the 1st century is one thing. Geocentrism in the 21st century, after we discovered the Earth is not the center of the universe, would be the "modern geocentrism" - its not based in the lack of knowledge like before, but on some kind of fanatism/conspiracy.

It seems you do not understand what the Septuagint is. Its not a bad translation of a masoretic text, if this is what you propose. Its a translation of a different textual family. Its not "baffling", you just do not know enough about the Bible to have these conversations.

19th century, Seventh Day Adventism Do you know that the Septuagint and the Massoretic texts have different numbers when you sum their genealogies? By thousands of years different. Science can correct itself, but how can you correct two different Bibles? Ussher is irrelevant, just one guy who...

Oh mine, the error again. Cannot you even see that the Genesis 1 is written in the third person? "God did..." not "I did". So the text cannot be God's words, even just grammatically.

Feel free to name denominations teaching the YEC outside of the USA.

Oh, sorry, so the 16th century. Sad. Not sure what you mean by "when". Yes. Does the Bible have an agreed figure now?

The YEC is taught only in very few denominations and most of them are in or from the USA. Regarding the rest, you have a habit to be very imprecise in your representation of what I say. Also, definitions differ. God's words or inspiration can mean various things for various people. Do not...

I mean the modern era YEC, after we know the scientific age of the universe. Not in the middle ages. Where did the idea that you should ignore our modern information and stick to the literal reading of Genesis come from to you?