How old is our creation really?

While the Bible is known to make gigantic leaps in time without specific details. It seems at first sight Abraham was born about 2000 years after Adam. This would show us a young creation according to our Bible.

Yet science had me almost convinced our earth is billions of years old. But knowing they lie and mock anyone raising serious questions I denounced science when it comes to our origins. I was really devoted in my studies but all I found was slander, corruptions, half truths to sell a full lie...

Yet my own mind raised a serious question last night: If our God is infinite, why would He only start creating roughly 6000 to 10000 years ago?

Maybe I should rewatch my beliefs on this and only see human life as a young creation? Any insight in this is very welcomed.

While the Bible is known to make gigantic leaps in time without specific details. It seems at first sight Abraham was born about 2000 years after Adam. This would show us a young creation according to our Bible.

Yet science had me almost convinced our earth is billions of years old. But knowing they lie and mock anyone raising serious questions I denounced science when it comes to our origins. I was really devoted in my studies but all I found was slander, corruptions, half truths to sell a full lie...

Yet my own mind raised a serious question last night: If our God is infinite, why would He only start creating roughly 6000 to 10000 years ago?

Maybe I should rewatch my beliefs on this and only see human life as a young creation? Any insight in this is very welcomed.

While the Bible is known to make gigantic leaps in time without specific details. It seems at first sight Abraham was born about 2000 years after Adam. This would show us a young creation according to our Bible.

Yet science had me almost convinced our earth is billions of years old. But knowing they lie and mock anyone raising serious questions I denounced science when it comes to our origins. I was really devoted in my studies but all I found was slander, corruptions, half truths to sell a full lie...

Yet my own mind raised a serious question last night: If our God is infinite, why would He only start creating roughly 6000 to 10000 years ago?

Maybe I should rewatch my beliefs on this and only see human life as a young creation? Any insight in this is very welcomed.

How old it is does not matter....the deeper question is WHY this grand experiment under the sun..........

I believe there are clues as to the why, but a cursory read of the bible and or even a haphazard, skim of scriptures will not reveal these clues....it takes years of intensive study.

EVEN Jesus, disrobed his glory, took flesh, was tempted, tested, tried and had to chose between God's kingdom and the fallen Kingdom of the kosmokrator (Satan as world ruler) which he is called in Ephesians.

While the Bible is known to make gigantic leaps in time without specific details. It seems at first sight Abraham was born about 2000 years after Adam. This would show us a young creation according to our Bible.

Yet science had me almost convinced our earth is billions of years old. But knowing they lie and mock anyone raising serious questions I denounced science when it comes to our origins. I was really devoted in my studies but all I found was slander, corruptions, half truths to sell a full lie...

Yet my own mind raised a serious question last night: If our God is infinite, why would He only start creating roughly 6000 to 10000 years ago?

Maybe I should rewatch my beliefs on this and only see human life as a young creation? Any insight in this is very welcomed.

Take the average birth rates, mortality rates, lifespans, and age of reproduction then take into account how that has changed over time. Calculate deaths from wars and other large scale disasters.

You should be able to produce an equation and make a pessimistic and optimistic estimation for what the present day population of the Earth should be after 6,000-10,000 years.

The question is valid and need further investigation.

If we read the Bible carefully we will find that time is part of the creation.

God created time, so why would God only started with His creation 10 000 years ago? Because He is outside of time and it doesn't actually matter to Him. It is like asking the strongest man in the universe why he is doing one finger pushups... because he can

Science can do accurate carbon dating for the last +-10 000 years but older than that is all guess work and they admit it.

The reason why I do belief earth is not older than 6000 years is because of the cycles explained to us in God's word. He is clear that there is order in His creation. A little study on this subject goes a long way.

We know as a certainty that scripture gives us truth, and we also know that sometimes we do not understand the truth that it gives us. Science sometimes helps us understand the truths of scripture. Man simply knew the earth was flat because scripture spoke of the four corners. Science showed us the meaning of that scripture.

Because science has found that the earth is older than 6,000 years and is probably correct, many have turned from the Lord saying the Lord cannot be relied on as truth. I feel certain God only speaks truth, I am not sure we understand the scripture that gives tells us it is 6,000 years old.

Genesis 1:2 Now the earth was formless and empty. Couldn't this mean that there was something here when God began created the earth for us?

One thing I am certain of, and that is that it is a wrong conclusion to decide God is not absolute truth based on interpretation of scripture and deciding it is impossible for science to be wrong.

While the Bible is known to make gigantic leaps in time without specific details. It seems at first sight Abraham was born about 2000 years after Adam. This would show us a young creation according to our Bible.

How old it is does not matter....the deeper question is WHY this grand experiment under the sun..........

I believe there are clues as to the why, but a cursory read of the bible and or even a haphazard, skim of scriptures will not reveal these clues....it takes years of intensive study.

EVEN Jesus, disrobed his glory, took flesh, was tempted, tested, tried and had to chose between God's kingdom and the fallen Kingdom of the kosmokrator (Satan as world ruler) which he is called in Ephesians.

The answer is that the Bible does not tell how long ago God made the earth. But what can be gleaned from the account is that it is much older than Adam. The Hebrew of Genesis 1:1 is a complete thought. That is, God made the heaven and the earth - period. Two things should be taken into account in this matter;

1. In Job 38:4-7 the angels rejoiced when God made the earth. That must mean that the heavens, the dwelling of angels, was made before the earth and that the angels were already made when God made the earth. This of course is the death-knell for the big bang theory, but it still does not give an age to us.
2. In Isaiah 45:18 and 1st Corinthians 14 we are told that God is not the author of confusion. So what happened in Genesis 1:2 was not of God's making. The literal Hebrew confirms this. The literal rendering of Genesis 1:2 is, "And the earth BECAME without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." The Hebrew word "haya" appears 75 times in the Hebrew. It is rendered "was" only 7 times. It is rendered "come to pass" 21 times, "become" 32 times and "were happened" 6 times. Its true meaning is "became", showing a process of change. It comes from a root word that means "coming into existence". This means that after God created the earth in verse 1, something dramatic happened to cause the earth to become a chaos. God cannot look at chaos, so He covered the earth with water, as He did at Noah's time. Darkness is a further proof of God's judgment.

So what we can glean from the available evidence is that the heavens were made first, for God would not make angels without a dwelling place, and He would not make a creature without having a separation from Himself from them. Then He made the angles. Then, some time later, He made the earth. The earth was in good order until something catastrophic happened. God judged the event by covering the earth in water. How long each period was, we cannot tell. And that is the point! When God covered the earth at Noah's time, when Noah came out of the Ark, it was still the same earth but all evidence of the evil done on it was wiped away. In 1st Peter 3:20-21 we learn that the waters cleaned the earth like a man's conscience is cleaned after he forgets all that went before. It says that the "substance" is still there, but memory of what went before is not. So also does the purging of the earth by fire at the end of the millennium wipe all memory of went before (Rev.20:11, 21:4-5).

The point is that the two coverings of water, one before Adam, and one at Noah's time, wiped out evidence of what went before, so no attempts by man to discover the age of the earth will succeed.

Take the average birth rates, mortality rates, lifespans, and age of reproduction then take into account how that has changed over time. Calculate deaths from wars and other large scale disasters.

You should be able to produce an equation and make a pessimistic and optimistic estimation for what the present day population of the Earth should be after 6,000-10,000 years.