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As a Christian, I reject a young earth. I believe that God created an Old Earth 6,300 years ago. Let me explain:

The earth was created with a backstory or an apparent age. Think about how He created Adam; as a fully grown man on day one. In reality, Adam was one when God created Him, but he probably looked like a 30 something year old man. Now, if scientists were to have observed and studied Adam in the garden, they would logically conclude that he is 30 something, but in reality, he was merely created with an apparent age or backstory. I believe that there is a uniformity in this apparent age concept and it applies to the earth, all things on the earth and the entire universe. So, the earth could very well have been created with a millions or billions of years backstory 6,000 years ago.

It is a lot less complicated than young earth creationists make it out to be. If they understood this basic idea, they wouldn't spend so much time trying to find all of this young earth evidence. On the other hand, Theistic evolutionists also miss the mark so they overcomplicate things and jump into a pool of confusion in trying to compromise and make the Bible fit with the Darwinian monkey men fairytale for adults.

Also, another thing: 6,300 years is not young. That is old. It is quite a long time.

"For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of OLD, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:......." 2 Peter 3:5.
helenS · 36-40, F
Following your reasoning, God could also have created a 4 billion year old world and all things (including you and me) one minute ago, and we would never find out. Your God is a trickster!
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Open your spiritual eyes. You're wrong. God is not a trickster. He is perfect, just and Holy. Just because the earth has a backstory does not mean God is trying to trick us; that is an illogical conclusion. What makes you think our main purpose here is to understand everything in the natural world anyway - Like how old the earth is merely through limited scientific tools? You can't possibly know that with such incomplete and faulty tools anyway. Also, If God gave us an earth that completely matched His Book to a T, then we would be forced to accept it, without any free will, and since we would see it as fact, we would have no more cholice, which would make God a dictator holding us on strings in the sky. We would be nothing more than angelic robots on repeat. That would be a cruel God, but yet we have a loving God who cares about freedom and choice.
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@helenS On the other hand, someone has tricked you. The god of this world (Satan) has blinded you. "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." 2 Corinthians 4:4. I plead with you to recognize and escape the trance you have been lulled into.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
Earth is older than just old, yet even man is older than Neanderthals which is far beyond your 6,300 years!. Many people still have Neanderthal DNA in them today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal

Neanderthals are known from numerous fossils, especially from after 130,000 years ago.[25] The type specimen, Neanderthal 1, was found in 1856 in the Neander Valleyin present-day Germany. For much of the early 20th century, European researchers depicted Neanderthals as primitive, unintelligent, and brutish.

https://www.ibtimes.com/neanderthal-dna-race-asians-have-closer-link-multiple-breeding-events-studies-say-1822230

Neanderthals interbred with both the ancestors of modern Europeans and Asians about 50,000 years ago, but scientists looking at Neanderthal DNA by race have speculated why East Asians have a greater proportion of the ancestry than Europeans. New research suggests our heavy-browed ancestors bred with East Asians on multiple occasions, giving the contemporary East Asian population higher levels of Neanderthal DNA, according to two studies published last week in the American Journal of Human Genetics.

And it wasn't just Neanderthals. Australian aboriginals 60,000 years ago...

[media=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OBFNaD-y2oM]
...if scientists were to have observed and studied Adam...

you're absolutely right.

i don't understand why scientists need to study the age of the earth by geological strata when we can calculate that age by studying Adam.

that's exactly right. yes.
This backstory is hugely complex and manages to be very consistent. So clearly, God wants us to believe it is real. This is a big problem for me because it means we have a God who lies to us through his creation
@SW-User and as your brethren have said (over and over and over and over and over again) that source hasn't been updated and therefore isn't credible. And that it's full of glaring contradictions that somehow these edits have overlooked. You need to get your misinformation straight.
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@SW-User It's not a "heavily edited book" it is the perfect and preserved Word of God. It has no errors at all. The Words we have in our King James Bible are the same as what was in the original Hebrew and Greek.
DrWatson · 70-79, M
Why would a loving God do one thing, and then plant evidence which misleads us into believing he did something else?
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SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F
is that the christian god? allah? yahweh? Zeus?
SW-User
humans are boo boo babies
It's also flat and hollow.
ElRengo · 70-79, M
And said trick had the purpose of..........?
SW-User
Truman The True Man.

Ask your mother why she kept dropping you on your head. Maybe she had hummous on her fingers.
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@SW-User I just want to say that I will be praying for you. I feel bad that you've got so much anger dwelling in your bosom. Don't you want that to go away and to have a peace that passeth all understanding and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ? You do realize that in the end, you will have nowhere else to turn to, right? You could be moments away from facing your creator right now. Don't you want to be prepared for the ultimate moment and not temporary desires? You know as well as I do that this world is just getting worse and worse and worse as time goes on. The world keeps changing and changing, but Jesus Christ never changes. He is the only one you can possibly have peace and security from.

Also, I completely accept the fact that I appear crazy unto you, as I do many people in the world, but the world is an insane place, so the sane will appear insane to the insane. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 4:4 that the god of this world (Satan) hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them."
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@SW-User That was too much to read, sorry.

I'm sure it was fascinating, though.
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@swirlie The real fable is what you evolutionists believe, which is that we came from a rock and the slime. It is just logical to deduce that we must have all come from a man and woman in the beginning. That is consistent with all observable science.

 
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