Question about the bible.?

Wow! You swallowed all the lies, didn't you?

"The Bible says the Earth is between 6,000 and 8,000 years old, " Nowhere does it say that.

"that it was created in 7 days, " Wrong again. It says it was created in six days.

"and that Man is made of dirt" Adam was, although there was more to it

"and Woman a piece of Man." Eve was formed from a rib of Adam, but, again, there was more to it.

"Most churches today say that this is allegory." In all the christian churches I have been to, not once have I heard this taught by the church, There are individuals who believe this to be true, but I have yet to trip over a church that would say this is true.

"What passages of the Bible support it all being just allegory?" This is an excellent question and probably why it is not taught.

1) The Bible says the Earth is between 6,000 and 8,000 years old

No, it certainly does not.

2) that it was created in 7 days

Avoiding being nitpicky (the Bible says that the Earth already existed before those 7 days) - recognize that the word "day" in Biblical Hebrew - just as in English - is often used with a meaning other than "24-hour period". The interpretation of the term "7 days" is ambiguous both in Hebrew and in English. (Don't take my word for this - go ahead and look up the word "day" in any dictionary.)

3) and that Man is made of dirt and Woman a piece of Man

This claim is essentially correct.

4) Most churches today say that this is allegory

I'm very nearly certain that is not correct. I'm very nearly certain that most churches teach that Genesis is not allegorical and that it is historical.

Now: the **largest** churches (or "sects" more precisely) tend to teach that it is allegorical; but not most churches.

5) What passages of the Bible support it all being just allegory?

There are many - but in particular:

a - records of things that occurred before humans existed

b - records of conversations that no human could possible have overheard

These sorts of clues lead some scholars to propose that the Genesis creation account, The Book of Job, and some other passages in the Bible are allegorical rather than historical.

- Jim, http://www.bible-reviews.com/

> "The Bible says the Earth is between 6,000 and 8,000 years old" <

No it does not.

> "What passages of the Bible support it all being just allegory?" <

There are no Bible verses that state the "7-day Creation" or the way Adam & Eve were created, to be allegories.

2 Peter 3:8 "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."

This is why some Christians say God created the world in 6,000 years, and then rested for 1,000 years.

Now according to this time table, the Earth would then be closer to 13,999 years old. The reason is because Christ's second coming will be the Sabbath day in the Lord's time frame. But is 2 Peter 3:8 literal? Maybe because I can't think of a verse that comes to mind that supports the Earth being millions of years old. Perhaps the reason why the Earth appears to be so much older than it actually is has to do with the fact that God used existing materials in the universe to create the planet. Because you know, matter can neither be created or destroyed (it can only change form).

But that's not to say "a thousand years" could not have been used by Peter to describe what a day is to God to rather simply mean, "A day to God is too long for our minds to comprehend in comparison to what a day is to us." Thus actually making the Earth millions of years old, which number Peter probably couldn't comprehend at the time.

But which is the truth? I don't know or really care personally. Either work in my book.

As for men being made of dirt, and Eve from the man's rib, that's actually IN the Bible.

Genesis 2:7 "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."

Genesis 2:22 "And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man."

I take this bit literally as men do have one less rib than women. I think that's a tad bit of humor God left us with to remind us of how creation happened.

I will refer to your "Seven day" part of the question and allow someone else the privilege of answering the other segments. Actually it was six days - "the seventh day He rested" Genesis 2:3

The entire period of the six time units or creative “days” dedicated to the preparation of planet Earth is summed up in one all-embracing “day” at Genesis 2:4: “This is a history of the heavens and the earth in the time of their being created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.”

Man’s situation does not compare with that of the Creator, who does not reside within our solar system and who is not affected by its various cycles and orbits. Of God, who is from time indefinite to time indefinite, the psalmist says: “For a thousand years are in your eyes but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch during the night.” (Ps 90:2, 4) Correspondingly, the apostle Peter writes that “one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.” (2Pe 3:8) For man, a 1,000-year period represents some 365,242 individual time units of day and night, but to the Creator it can be just one unbroken time period in which he begins the carrying out of some purposeful activity and brings it on to its successful conclusion, much as a man begins a task in the morning and concludes it by the day’s end.

Jehovah is the Originator of our universe in which time, space, motion, mass, and energy have all been proved to be inescapably interrelated. He controls them all according to his purpose, and in dealing with his creatures on earth he makes definite time appointments for his own actions toward them, right down to the “day and hour.” (Mt 24:36; Galatians 4:4) He keeps such appointments with the utmost punctuality.

Scriptures are included for your perusal.

The Bible makes no reference to the age of the earth, and there is nothing in the Bible that denies it's veracity.