Question For The YECers.

[justlookinla]

Where do you get the 6000 year figure for the age of creation? From scripture, I mean.

 

[TasManOfGod]

Where do you get the 6000 year figure for the age of creation? From scripture, I mean.

By adding up the genealogies

 

[justlookinla]

By adding up the genealogies

Wouldn't that be indicative of when Adam began to age though, i.e., after expulsion from the garden?

 

[TasManOfGod]

Wouldn't that be indicative of when Adam began to age though, i.e., after expulsion from the garden?

And your point is........?

 

[justlookinla]

And your point is........?

The point is that Adam could have lived for quite a few years before the 6000 year clock started.

 

[AV1611VET]

Where do you get the 6000 year figure for the age of creation? From scripture, I mean.

I'm not a YEC, but Luke 3 gives us the first 4000 years.

Secular history does the rest.

 

[TasManOfGod]

The point is that Adam could have lived for quite a few years before the 6000 year clock started.

With a beautiful wife and having no children -mmmm let me think about this for a moment

 

[AV1611VET]

Wouldn't that be indicative of when Adam began to age though, i.e., after expulsion from the garden?

Genesis 5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

Adam probably died at the age of 950 or 960.

 

[justlookinla]

I'm not a YEC, but Luke 3 gives us the first 4000 years.

Secular history does the rest.

I guess the question is when did the 6000 year clock start.

 

[Oncedeceived]

I don't know where I read it but the generations listed in the Bible were not complete for some reason that I can't remember right now.

 

[justlookinla]

I don't know where I read it but the generations listed in the Bible were not complete for some reason that I can't remember right now.

Could be, I dunno.

 

[TasManOfGod]

I guess the question is when did the 6000 year clock start.

On the first day Adam lived

 

[justlookinla]

On the first day Adam lived

Scripture?

 

[AV1611VET]

I guess the question is when did the 6000 year clock start.

In 4004 BC.

 

[AV1611VET]

I don't know where I read it but the generations listed in the Bible were not complete for some reason that I can't remember right now.

If I remember correctly, Matthew's generations have a triad of 14 generations, a gap, 14 generations, a gap, then 13.

Or it's 14-13-14 ... or something like that.

Luke has 77.

 

[TasManOfGod]

Scripture?

Gen 5:5

 

[justlookinla]

Gen 5:5

What about before then?

 

[SkyWriting]

Where do you get the 6000 year figure for the age of creation? From scripture, I mean.

It is a man made number and concept from the Catholic church.
Other have come up with similar, but differing math totals.

That a "young" earth has no new testament support indicates
that people are "barking up the wrong tree" by adding a variety
of dates together to date the earth.

It is a false process and the numerology involved borders on heresy.

 

[DerelictJunction]

Wouldn't that be indicative of when Adam began to age though, i.e., after expulsion from the garden?

Were there no days and years prior to the expulsion?
Did time not move forward before the fall?

 

[justlookinla]

Were there no days and years prior to the expulsion?
Did time not move forward before the fall?

Yes, there were days and years before expulsion. There were days and years before Adam.