re: #175 3eff Jeff

Bible must be wrong too, then. No way the earth can be 6000 years old if we’re only in 2012.

The bible never says any such thing, it never refers to the age of the earth at all, when someone says “Well the bible says…” just tell them “No it doesn’t.”

Bishop Ussher sat down in 1654 and guessed at and then added up how much time he thought was between each listed biblical generation from all the “and so-in-so beget so-in-so’s” in Genesis and decided that the earth was created in 4004 B.C.

Remember that according to the bible these people lived for hundreds and hundreds of years back then, so someone might have had a child when they were 17 or it could have been when they were 700, the bible does not say.

Bishop Usshers number is nothing but a guess, and rather a wild assed one at that. It did not come from long research to arrive at an “informed opinion” as some claim nor did he ever claim that it came from any spiritual revelation.

It simply become tradition for the church to agree that the number was “somewhere in that area” and leave it at that. Now modern day young earthers are trying to turn it into some kind of holy dogma, why? Because their beliefs have no support in the bible at all.