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Old-earth. There just seems to be too much scientific evidence that this is the case. (For example, the stars are millions to billions of light years away, so in order for the light to have reached us, the universe has to be at least that old, or God created the light already in transit, which seems weird–it’s not like he’s on a time crunch or anything.)
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I don’t care too much either way. It’s not important to the Gospel or to proving the Bible.
The Bible implies a young Earth but doesn’t explain it outright. The Earth scientifically looks like it’s old but there are inconsistencies.
Jonas pointed out starlight. God wanted the lights to appear on the fourth day. Could the fourth day represent billions of years? Sure, but God can easily make the light reach Earth in a day anyway. There’s no way to know how he did it, just that he did it.
I don’t see why God couldn’t have made everything to look developed (or ‘evolved’) to an extent. So I believe in young-Earth. But whether you believe in young or old shouldn’t have any impact on your Christianity.
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I tend to lean towards global flood as well. That’s something I hadn’t considered regarding rock layers.
My dad says that there are a lot of generations skipped in those genealogies, and that they only recorded the more important people, so that’s why he doesn’t think that they are a very accurate way to calculate the age of humanity.
I understand what you’re getting at. XD Yeah, earth age beliefs are definitely not worth dying for. But it’s an interesting topic.
So I probably should have clarified, I’m still a creationist. I just think that the days in Genesis weren’t literal 24 hour days. For one thing, literal 24 hour days weren’t a thing until day 4. Also, somewhere in Hebrews it mentions that we are still living in the seventh day, (though my dad thinks it’s the eighth day now since the temple’s been destroyed), which leads me to believe that they were ages.
I probably should have clarified, I’m still a creationist. XD
Exactly. There’s a physicist my dad said to read more on the subject, but I forgot his name. Hugh something or other.
But whether you believe in young or old shouldn’t have any impact on your Christianity.
Yeah, there are definitely more important issues to argue about. It’s an interesting topic though.
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My dad says that there are a lot of generations skipped in those genealogies, and that they only recorded the more important people, so that’s why he doesn’t think that they are a very accurate way to calculate the age of humanity.
The Bible doesn’t say ‘and there were many more generations before…’ Therefore there were not. If you believe there were, then you doubt the accurate truth of God’s word, and if you doubt one part, you can doubt the rest. If there were many unmentioned generations just because they weren’t important, God would have said so. I’m sorry I 100% disagree with your dad and find his stance unbiblical.
Okay, okay, I’m banishing myself now…
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#AnduthForever (💕)To be fair, the Hebrew might allow for a something similar to fathering a nation when it says ‘this guy fathered this guy.’ Which would then not be dependent on time. I’m curious about this so I’ll have to ask my dad, he’s the Hebrew nerd.
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