How long has man been created.

[Blue sapphire]

Just interested if anyone has tell me how long since Adam was created, according to the Bible....I believe this can be worked out.

I know it is close to 6000 years....but exactly how many years, was what I was interested in.

 

[Dark_Lite]

Modern humans have been around for approximately 200,000 years or so.

If you're trying to calculate the "age" of man from a literal reading of Genesis it adds up to somewhere betweeen 4,000 and 6,000 years. They get this number by adding up the ages of the various people and tracing it through the genealogies.

 

[theVirginian]

The age of Man can be traced back to the fall, around 6000 years. We run into a snag going further back since the time between Adam's creation and his fall is unknown.

 

[Teluog]

We can't tell. Biblical geneologies often skip over names and often only include important figures in genealogies. So it could be 6,000 years, could be 10,000, could be 50,000......

 

[Codger]

Just interested if anyone has tell me how long since Adam was created, according to the Bible....I believe this can be worked out.

I know it is close to 6000 years....but exactly how many years, was what I was interested in.

Dear Blue,
I use the Chronology study of one Frank Klasson who wrote a small book titled "The Chronology of the Bible" which is now out of print. It is the best source that I have found as it is totally complete through the time of Jesus. Klassen was an engineer - an Architect as I recall. In the 60's and 70's he drew out graphically bible timelines on his drafting board - it took him 10 years to do so. Most all of these were taken from the Bible itself. He basically worked backward in time since history is well documented beginning about the time of Alexander the Great.

According to Klassen's research - Adam was created on Friday April 1st (Who says that God doesn't have a sense of humor) in the year 3975BC. Jesus was born on April 1st 5BC. Jesus was baptised around Oct 1st 25AD almost exactly 4,000 years after the creation of Adam. So to today time, since the creation of Adam, is 5984 years. So we have 16 years yet to the 6,000 year mark. Ussher is close by a few years. So it looks like 2025 is the year 6,000.

His work is available on the net among the used booksellers. He also has a "Klassen Calendarized Study Bible" which is still around. I found one for only $8.00 (KJV) - but I was lucky on that one.

Some think that the Adam and Eve story is just a myth. However there exists a geneology of Adam part of which is in Matthew. Some people claim that they can trace their ancestry back to Adam. Consider Athiesm, which claims to be "scientific" - no such geneology exists for anyone. How much more scientific can you get than having a list of chronological names of generations.

Larry

 

[Blue sapphire]

The age of Man can be traced back to the fall, around 6000 years. We run into a snag going further back since the time between Adam's creation and his fall is unknown.

The Bible gives us a starting point in Genesis 5:3. ....when it says that.... Adam was 130 years old when Seth was born.

 

[Blue sapphire]

Dear Blue,
I use the Chronology study of one Frank Klasson who wrote a small book titled "The Chronology of the Bible" which is now out of print. It is the best source that I have found as it is totally complete through the time of Jesus. Klassen was an engineer - an Architect as I recall. In the 70's he drew out graphically bible timelines on his drafting board. Most all of these were taken from the Bible itself. He basically worked backward in time since history is well documented beginning about the time of Alexander the Great.

According to Klassen's research - Adam was created on Friday April 1st (Who says that God doesn't have a sense of humor) in the year 3975BC. Jesus was born on April 1st 5BC. Jesus was baptised around Oct 1st 25AD almost exactly 4,000 years after the creation of Adam. So to today time, since the creation of Adam, is 5984 years. So we have 16 years yet to the 6,000 year mark. Ussher is close by a few years. So it looks like 2025 is the year 6,000.

His work is available on the net among the used booksellers. He also has a "Klassen Calendarized Study Bible" which is still around. I found one for only $8.00 (KJV) - but I was lucky on that one.

Some think that the Adam and Eve story is just a myth. However there exists a geneology of Adam part of which is in Matthew. Some people claim that they can trace their ancestry back to Adam. Consider Athiesm, which claims to be "scientific" - no such geneology exists for anyone. How much more scientific can you get than having a list of chronological names of generations.

Larry

Thank you Larry.....2025 was the answer I was looking for.....if that is correct.

 

[Codger]

Thank you Larry.....2025 was the answer I was looking for.....if that is correct.

Well, only the Lord knows for sure. But this is the most intelligent and complete study that I know of.
Larry

 

[Gary51]

I find it interesting that no man-made structures or writting systems have been found that are older than 6000 years.

 

[Blue sapphire]

I find it interesting that no man-made structures or writting systems have been found that are older than 6000 years.

Sure....and to get off the point a little.....I also find it interesting if man evovled...how is it there are no species of apeman still around....or all sorts of weird evolutionary beings that led to man.

No.... all men and women on this earth have that superior intelligence that animals do not have....the ability to reason and communicate with each other and also communicate with their Creator.

Just another nail in the coffin for the evolution of man.

 

[Dark_Lite]

Jericho is a settlement far older than 6,000 years.

And evolution is a common descent model, more like a tree than anything else. Not "if man evolved from monkeys why are there still monkeys?"

 

[fwwid]

Haha, I know many of you don't WANT to hear this but Homo sapien sapiens have walked the earth for nearly 500,000 years. This overlapped with cro-magnon subspecies, Homo heidelbergensis and neanderthal man (not of our same species). Before then was Homo erectus/ergastor. Before that, Homo Habilis, and before that (appx. 5 mya) the autralopithecenes. Adam represented the first hominid of God's elect people and was the first created in the image of God to the greatest degree. As far as trying to pinpoint the exact time the quintessential "Adam" was created through biblical geneological studies, or any other for that matter, is simply wishful thinking in my opinion. Enjoy the cognitive dissonance this post creates.

 

[Ohene]

Jericho is a settlement far older than 6,000 years.

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Reaaally? What archeological evidence do you have for the existence of Jericho let alone this 6,000 year old dating convention.

 

[starbrite]

Perhaps i am in error here....But there have been anomalous things turn up from time to time which belie the current christian thinking along biblical lines...
Ie.
1)Many finds of scientists have been judged to be much older than six thousand years....africa,europe,asia etc....
2)footprints have been discovered in sedimentary rock strata which coincide with the footprints of dinosaurs found in the same rock....
3)fortean phenomina of all kinds too(as in a solid gold chain which was broken out of a lump of solid coal taken from a mine deep underground in europe)(a stone doll brought up from great depth in america by a well digger)etc etc...
Ruins which predate the chinese history still dot the pacific rim.....
4) evidence of many other finds go back at least 80 thousand years.....some way further........

 

[Codger]

Haha, I know many of you don't WANT to hear this but Homo sapien sapiens have walked the earth for nearly 500,000 years. This overlapped with cro-magnon subspecies, Homo heidelbergensis and neanderthal man (not of our same species). Before then was Homo erectus/ergastor. Before that, Homo Habilis, and before that (appx. 5 mya) the autralopithecenes. Adam represented the first hominid of God's elect people and was the first created in the image of God to the greatest degree. As far as trying to pinpoint the exact time the quintessential "Adam" was created through biblical geneological studies, or any other for that matter, is simply wishful thinking in my opinion. Enjoy the cognitive dissonance this post creates.

Where would Darwinists be without their scientific pseudo jargon and the cover of nacht and nebel of huge periods of time. Who knows what might have happened in millions of years past. Darwin himself admitted the chief weakness of his theory was the total lack of intermediates in between these morphing species. God made the first beings as adults with a reproductive system. I think the male and female aspect of most life on earth blows the whole theory of evolution.

 

[Teluog]

I think Jericho is said to have dated as far back as 7-8,000 BC, but no older city has been discovered. There could be some older cities that archaeologists just haven't stumbled upon yet. No one knows, except. Wouldn't be surprised though to learn that it was one of the first cities made after the flood or something like that.

 

[fwwid]

Where would Darwinists be without their scientific pseudo jargon and the cover of nacht and nebel of huge periods of time. Who knows what might have happened in millions of years past. Darwin himself admitted the chief weakness of his theory was the total lack of intermediates in between these morphing species. God made the first beings as adults with a reproductive system. I think the male and female aspect of most life on earth blows the whole theory of evolution.

Eh, the whole male/female thing isn't that great an evolutionary acheivement in the biological sense; even primitive species have gender differentiation. One could argue that microbial transduction is one of the most ancient forms of gender. Though different, the principles is the same; genetic material being transfered from one moity to the next by means of a "pseudopod".

Any "lack of intermediates" can be accounted by the fact that fossils are hard to find (depending on the species) and it's only been as of late in human history that technology has allowed for extensive excavations in search of said "intermediates". The term "intermediate" itself is ambiguous and really makes no sense biologically. In actuality, there really are no intermediates, only slight morphological changes with time dictated by the environment. Being as it were, your quintessential "intermediates" will all arrive in time and the fact that you will flinch each time the media broadcasts their arrival into our homes is undeniable. Any rebuttal of the evidence is laughable at best. There is absolutely no evidence which would suggest that man was created on earth in a geological blink of an eye. The evidence demonstrates that evolution is responsible - with or without the hand of God, depending on what you chose to believe.

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[Blue sapphire]

Well the question about evolution is for another thread....for those of you who wish to pursue it.

There are scientists who believe in Creation and evolution....it is for the believer to do their own research....to establish what is the truth....asking their Maker to lead them.

Debates about this subject do not make us better sons and daughters/parents//husbands/wives/employees or employers.

There is much information to be sourced if one wishes to seek it out......debating it when you hold a set view, leads nowhere.

 

[fwwid]

Well the question about evolution is for another thread....for those of you who wish to pursue it.

There are scientists who believe in Creation and evolution....it is for the believer to do their own research....to establish what is the truth....asking their Maker to lead them.

Debates about this subject do not make us better sons and daughters/parents//husbands/wives/employees or employers.

There is much information to be sourced if one wishes to seek it out......debating it when you hold a set view, leads nowhere.

What was the title of this thread? I thought it had something to do with how long man has been around or something? I'm sorry if you're offended by my beliefs but different strokes for different folks, eh? When a question is asked about the existence of man, then, according to my belief, evolution has everything to do with any legitimate answer given to said question. You may not like it, but the truth will never change, irrespective of your emotions - sorry, this was not the intention of the post. FYI, I am one of "those scientists" who believe in the creation and evolution - to the fullest extent. Cheers.

 

[An Arch Angel]

wrong thread