It is also modified by an ordinal number first, second, etc. Elsewhere the six days of creation are equated with the six days of our work week Exodus , a formula incorporated in the fourth of the Ten Commandments regarding the Sabbath rest.
We should mention that the use of a numeral to modify "days," in this case "6," is again reserved for a literal day in Hebrew, as is the use of the plural word "days. Suffice it to say that no one could conclude that Scripture specifically places Creation any longer ago than a few thousand years, and to my knowledge no one does.
Many do hold to an older position, but not for Scriptural reasons. They are convinced by radioisotope dating, perhaps, or maybe the molecular clock of mutation rates, or some other line of thinking, but not from Scripture.
Scripture teaches a young earth, and the time has come for Christians to stop twisting Scripture to fit the evolutionary and uniformitarian speculations of some scientists about the unobserved past. We suggest it's time for such Christians to stop calling themselves "Bible-believing" Christians and start using some such name as "world-believing" Christians. Cite this article: John D. Morris, Ph. Skip to main content. More Days of Praise. God My Personal Savior.
Ussher's methodology was simple: use the genealogies provided in the Bible to construct a timeline. Barr identifies three distinct periods that Ussher had to deal with: the early times Creation through the reign of King Solomon , the early age of kings Solomon to the destruction of the temple , and the late age of kings Ezra and Nehemiah to the birth of Christ. The early times were likely the easiest to deal with, as the Bible provides an unbroken male lineage from Adam to Solomon, complete with the age of each father at the birth of his son, the next patriarch.
Genesis alone provides genealogies from Adam to Jacob. However, the same ages are not presented by all versions of the Bible.
For instance, the Septuagint the pre-Christian Greek translation of the Old Testament provides considerably longer ages, adding another years to the Creation date. Ussher avoided this problem by relying on the Hebrew Bible the Masoretic. The early age of kings is a bit more complicated to deal with, as the lineage breaks down; instead, the Bible records the lengths of kings' reigns.
Additionally, overlaps and ambiguities in the text complicate the picture. Thus, Ussher relied on cross-referencing the Bible with other known dates of events and people to create this part of the timeline. The late age of kings complicated matters even more, as no information pertaining to lengths of time is provided whatsoever in the Bible. Thus, it was necessary to use other writings from other cultures to link the later events to those of the time of Christ.
In doing so, Ussher arrived at a date of B. After an error by Dionysius Exiguus, the creator of the Anno Domini numbering system, was discovered, Ussher readjusted accordingly, putting Creation firmly at B. Thus, an age for the creation of humanity is given. One of the key issues in interpreting the Biblical account of creation is the interpretation of the word "day.
Biblical literalists interpret "day" as a literal hour day. Potential support for the young-earth interpretation is provided by Boyd in his analysis of the statistical distribution of Hebrew verbs. Boyd begins by pointing out that there are three possible ways to read the Biblical Creation account: 1 an "extended poetic metaphor, which communicates truth but in the plain sense of its words does not correspond to reality"; 2 a "narrative, which purports to be the truth when it is in fact in error"; 3 a "narrative, which accurately portrays reality" Boyd Boyd sets out to use verb distribution as the means by which one can determine the genre of the Creation account.
He evaluates the verbs present in various parts of the Bible such as 1 Kings, or 1 Chronicles , in which the text is unquestionably of the narrative genre, and then compares them to the verbs present in Biblical poetry, such as that found in the book of Psalms. Using this data, the Genesis Creation account is a narrative, with probability between 0. Therefore, it is "statistically indefensible" to argue that the text is poetry Boyd The Bible timeline real age of the earth is 6, solar years in October of AD according to the numbered dates in the Biblical text.
The Bible chronology dates available on this web site were calculated by Jim Liles over the past ten plus years using only the numbered dates given in the New King James Version of the MacArthur Study Bible. All of the exact and estimated dates used in this Bible Timeline from the 7 Days of Creation until the beginning of the Exodus are based on information found in the Old Testament Book of Genesis.
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