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Do Christians actually believe that Earth was 6000 to 10000 years old?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Some do. Some don't. I think the majority doesn't believe that.

  • 5 years ago

    No! I'm a born again Christian and believe that the earth is some where around 5 billion years old. No where does Scripture state the age of the earth but we do know that "In the beginning..." Scripture doesn't state when that beginning was. As we read further into the creation account, Scripture states "The earth was without form and void..." Note here that the word "was" actually reads "became" in the original writings therefore it suggests that the earth was at one time as we know it today accordingly, something happened to the earth to render it a "shapeless mass and a dead planet" (without form and void). It appears that the creation account as we have it today is where the Lord actually renewed the earth and created man.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    yes they do . but you must understand why . they believe that any thing before god . does not exist . and because of the religious grip on science .we have a time line that appeals to the religions . but fact is the earth is much older . it existed before god said . if you trace back the time line between the two . they dont match up . mostly due to the religious thinking that everything that is , was and will be . time was the same the creatures were the same . life was the same . and they want every one to be the same . there thinking is that once we were all one . and until we all think as one there is no hope . but in thinking as one there is no nope .

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes, the Earth IS about that old. The website www.icr.org is full of evidence proving that the Earth is young. Here is a short article about it.

    http://www.icr.org/recent-universe/

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  • 1 decade ago

    I believe the earth in its present condition could have been made from something millions of years old.

  • 1 decade ago

    I am a Christian, and I'm not a Young-Earth Creationist. The vast majority of Christians aren't.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You have two camps - one group takes the Bible literally and the other does not.

    I feel the Bible should not be taken literally and I also do not believe in hell or the devil but other christians do.

    Your question is good because it brings up the key difference between Christians - whether or not the Bible should be taken word or word or interpreted.

  • 1 decade ago

    Some do, but most probably don't. The 62 generations between Adam and Jesus is just one of many misleading statements in the bible. Besides, there was not 'Adam'.

  • 1 decade ago

    Apparently some do, but I would say that is the minority. Most Christians are smarter than that. I am atheist/agnostic, but I don't see why those that believe in god can't see god and evolution coexisting. What's so hard about that concept?

  • Blank
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    All Christian do not believe this. I'd say most do not.

    The only Christians who believe it are those who believe in a literal interpretation of the bible.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes.Some actually do. Do some people believe random chance occurred so many times that all we see now exists?Hard to believe anyone would have faith like that.

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