How Old Is The Earth?

Not so long ago, the universe was considered eternal by many non-Christian scientists. What really raised their hackles was the discovery that the universe is expanding. Why? Because it implies a beginning, suggesting that the Bible was right all along: ”In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”

They were desperate to come up with an explanation that avoided a beginning. Every attempt has failed. Now they postulate, metaphysically not scientifically mind you, an eternal Multiverse.

If instead of focusing on the age of the earth, Christians apologists would focus on the fact of the beginning and the metaphysical cop-out of a multiverse, perhaps they would make more headway in getting a hearing.

 

God says it is in His Word people know the truth. The point is not to change wills or minds.


You could hand out counterfeit 100 dollar bills all day and make many people happy. It will not last long though.

You could also tell them their world is going to be turned upside down within months, which is biblical truth. That has not even made a dent in faithful Christians.


Jonah walked through Nineveh 1 Day as part of a 3 day trek. He said Nineveh would be overthrown in 40 days. That is all he said. The Holy Spirit was already working. The whole city from the king on down repented and asked God for mercy. No one had a clue about an enemy or even God, yet they knew in their hearts and minds what to do.

Now days people know too much it seems.

Jonah was a Calvinist because he told God, "I told you so". Jonah knew that it was God's will, and it would have happened one way or the other. Really? Jonah should have kept running away to test that theory out. He was a terrible scientists.

 

I believe Jonah said more to the Ninevites than what was recorded in Scripture. Who would believe anyone just walking down the street of a great city hollering it'll be destroyed within 40 days ?

And at least some Assyrians likely knew of God from their Israeli captives.

While the Assyrians had a policy of not killing a madman, they were too smart to simply believe one whom they believed mad, either. So, Jonah musta spoken of God to them.

BTW, I believe Jonah was swallowed by a whale, not a fish, as a fish wouldn't have any air in its belly.

 

The earth is VERY old. The current arrangement of the surface is no older than the time of Genesis 1.

 

The earth is dated very old. The earth is only 7000 years young. The earth was not created to be young. It was create to "look" old. It was created from nothing, 7000 years ago.

 

No, the earth IS old. Why would God make something to LOOK old? That'd be a deception, which GOD doesn't do.

 

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say Jonah didn’t get bogged down trying to explain to the Ninevites the true age of the earth when God told him to proclaim his message to them.

My point stands.

 

It is not a deception. Did God deceive Adam by creating a 30 something old being without having grown up from a child? I put look in quotes. It is not a good description, since the earth does not look 4.5 billion years old. The earth only looks 7000 years old. It dates to millions and billions, because it was created to reflect a mature age. You will have to ask God why He picked the age He did. All we know is that God called it perfect. I am not sure why those who call themselves scientists, get to dictate an age that God does not record in the Bible. Most do not even accept Noah's Flood. Most do not know that this earth was perfect without decay or death for 1000 years, but it is in Genesis 2. So, yes it gives mature dates, when it should not. But why is that God being deceptive? There are many more accounts in the Bible that could be interpreted as God being deceptive. Is God deceptive? Is Satan deceptive? Is God in control of all Satan does? Calling God deceptive seems fairly easy to do, but I would not be one that accused God of deception. Would you? That was Job's mistake of self righteousness. That is Satan's lie, that God withholds information and deceives us, but it is only Satan who is allowed to decieve us.

 

I apologize for the derail. My point is that God can change the minds of thousands in a day, if God so chooses, because the Holy Spirit allows them to be willing to change. God could remove this veil of Satan's deception, and He will soon. The Bible still has the answer, because it is God's Word.

 

You have been saying that for millions and millions of years.

 

I think that that was just the way that it was and that the Hindus started all this millions and millions of years stuff. Americans recite it from the Greeks and the Enlightenment, an atheist movement of crackpot science. Remember that the American educational system is the worst in the industrialized world so people don't think things through but rely on experts, a doctrine of thinking advanced by John Dewey, socialist.

 

If we deny that God created other sons of God on day 6, what is the point in showing off a car to all his friends?

 

His car was how he picked up Eve after work, just sayin'

 

Of course, the age of the earth matters. The church fathers wrote about it 2,000 years ago. People were so evil before Noah's Flood that God had to destroy all but 8 people who believed God. But after Noah's Flood people again did evil and God forced them to scatter throughout the world. Some went to India and in contradiction of what Judaism taught started Hinduism and taught deep time or millions and millions of years as if there were no Adam and no Noah.

Now American Darwinists are teaching deep time as a necessity for evolution to occur. The earth was ruined by Noah's Flood after already having been cursed when Adam was expelled from the Garden of Eden forever. The curse extended to the entire universe.

What you also omit is that deep time and evolution are no longer good science if they ever were. The Greeks took the Indian ideas and sold them to the European pagans of the ancient world. Paul told them at Mar's Hill that they were superstitious. The atheistic Enlightenment revived Greek ideas and added their own crackpot science about deep time. The Enlightenment probably is aligned with the French Revolution but I don't know. The 19th century Brits pushed evolution and white supremacy as science. So yes it matters that the heathen believe the lies of men and Satan.

 

What work? Eve had to even pick the fruit he ate.

 

Ha!ha!

Adam was the first guy to tell a woman to fix him a sammich, just imagine.

 

In some ways, yes, in others, no.

Hinduism was an early opponent of the “Big Bang,” first because it estimates the universe to be far older than the 2 billion years Hinduism claims for an oscillation, and then later because an oscillating universe was ruled out completely, along with all other possibilities of an eternal universe.

Don’t be misled. Materialists need eternal matter, and a system that can self-develop into a perfect environment for life. Even with the “old universe” as currently understood, they are dead in the water. No matter its extent, time is not on their side. No matter how old the universe, no matter how old the earth, the fine-tuning cannot be explained by natural phenomena, much less life itself.