Hey Lam,
Watch it now with the "enemy" stuff. I now this is an old entry so you may feel different about us now. So you want to know why I (for one) say the earth is 6,000 old? This is how I stummbled into this site in the first place. How funny. Okay, here we go...this isn't finished yet so bare with me.
What I've done so far is take the lineage (according to LUKE) of Christ (of whom you are becoming a believer) and starting with Adam, I take his age at the time of the birth of his child that is envolved in the lineage in this case Adam was 130 years old when Seth was born, Seth 105 when Enosh was born and so on..... I got to Jacob the son of Isaac and then it gets a little rough. I assume (sorry) that Jacob was 20 when he leaves to flee from Esau he spend 14 years working to pay off the debt for his two wives that makes him 34 at time of next in line. Judah is 17 years old when brother Joseph is sold into slvery. At this time Judah sleeps with Tamara and Perez is born. This shows Judah to be ten years older than Joseph thus he is 27 when Perez (next in line) is born. Isaac dies at 180 years. When Perez was born he would have been +-121 he had 59years left which makes it possible that Perez wife had Hezron before he was 59 years old. And Joseph - the exodus of Egypt accounts for 430 years Exodus 12:40. That's as far as I've got. But if I take the next 51 people and average that they had the next in line when they were 30 years old that gives us 51 x 30 = 1,530. Add that to Adam - Judah (2,167 years) + the 430 years that Joseph - Exodus of Egypt. So far we have 2,167+1,530+430=4,127 then add the 2004 years since the birth of Christ and you have a grand total of 6,131 years. BEFORE YOU START IN ON ME LET ME SAY THIS!!!! Recently I have come to discover a mistake I made. In of all places the first sentence of the bible. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Now the first day (beginning of time as we know it) was when GOD created light and dark "day and evening the first day." So, we don't know how long of a time period there was between earth being created and the first day. Since the first day though we have +- 6,000 years. That's according to GOD though I don't know if you'll give HIM much credit for being correct. I hope this cleared it allllll up, LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Be cool punky. -Z
This message has been edited by Zachariah, 05-22-2004 10:10 PM
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