How Old is the earth ?

How old is the earth ?

No one knows for sure. The Holy Bible only tells us that heaven and earth were created In
The Beginning.
When was the Beginning ?
Way back in the beginning before GOD created Life on planet earth, GOD created The
Angels.
The Angels were created before man was created.
The Angels were created before there was an evening and before there was a morning on
planet earth.
Genesis Chapter One keeps underlining the fact that there was an evening first before there
was a morning.
In the undermentioned Scriptures, we read about an evening and a morning.
1st Day - Genesis 1: 5
2nd Day - Genesis 1:8
3rd Day - Genesis 1:13
4th Day - Genesis 1: 19
5th Day - Genesis 1:23
6th Day - Genesis 1:31

In the Book of Genesis Chapter One, we get a Brief and Concise Account of The First Six
Days that each had an evening and a morning.
Many people . secular people, mockers and scoffers have asked the question :
How old is the earth ?
Now that is a genuine honest sincere question and every genuine honest sincere
question deserves a genuine honest sincere answer.
Now people ask the question How old is the earth ?
Some will ask the question is the earth about 6000 years old or is the earth older
than 6000 years old ?
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Now those are real sincere honest questions and where there is a real sincere
honest question , there has got to be a real sincere honest answer.
Now, Creationists base their view that the earth is 6000 years old and that the
heaven and earth were created in Six Days and that GOD first had to prepare
planet earth to support and sustain diverse forms of life on planet earth.
Bible Believers do not believe in evolution.
Creationists do not believe in Evolution.
I do not believe in evolution.
I believe the whole Bible from cover to cover, from Genesis to Revelation.
I believe GOD says what He means and GOD means what He says.
Now there are two schools of thought that we want to address.
One school of thought says that the earth is about 6000 years old and that in Six
Literal Days GOD created the heaven and the earth.
The other school of thought says that the earth came into existence after some
big bang billions of years ago and that through some process called Abiogenesis
life began on planet earth when the conditions for life were right.
Now dont that sound just like some scientist wanting to deny The Holy Bible and
make you Look Away from The Truth and look to something that is not True?
Friend, we live in a time where secular philosophy is corrupting the minds of the
people.
We live in dangerous times.
We live in perilous times.
We live in a time where people openly rebel against The Word of GOD and deny
The Holy Scriptures.
But friend , Thank GOD for The Truth.
The Truth will always defend itself.
No Scripture is of any private interpretation.
The Holy Bible is The Only Holy Book where Scripture interprets Scripture.
What does The Holy Bible say about creation ?
What does The Holy Bible say about the age of the earth ?
What does The Holy Bible say about who we are, where we come
What does The Holy Bible say about Life on other planets ?
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Before we answer the above questions, let us look at the question How old is
the earth ?
Now , we know that there is a school of thought that says that the earth is about
6000 years old.
In Genesis Chapter One we read about the first six evenings and the first six
mornings on planet earth.
When did time as we know it begin on planet earth ?
The twenty four hour day as we know it began when earth had it's first evening and it's first
morning.
Notice the universe was created in the beginning for we are told in The Holy Bible in Genesis 1:1
that the heaven and earth were created in the beginning.
The moon, stars and planets are part of the heavens and the heaven was made in the beginning
so we know that the universe was created by GOD in the beginning. { see Genesis 1:1 }.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

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And the earth was 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.
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And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the

darkness.
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And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the

evening and the morning were the first day.( Genesis 1:1:5).
When did time as we know it begin on planet earth ?
Time as we know it began on earth when GOD said " Let there be Light : and there was Light".
{ See Genesis 1:3}.
As we read on we find that GOD then separated Light from darkness and the evening and the
morning were the first day.
On planet earth we measure time on a 24 four clock that includes day and night. Time is said to
be relative. Since time is relative then it is important to see the starting point of the 24 hour day
on earth as we know it.

It is important to note that in our solar system, the length of what we call day and night time on
other planets in our solar system and other solar systems is not the same or similar to the twenty
four day on planet earth as we know it.
In Genesis 1:1 we see that the heavens and the earth were created.
In Genesis 1:2 we see that earth was in darkness.
In the remaining verses of Genesis Chapter 1 we see that the phrase evening and morning is
mentioned six times.

The first six twenty four hour days of planet earth are mentioned in Genesis Chapter One as
follows :1st Day - Genesis 1: 5
2nd Day - Genesis 1:8
3rd Day - Genesis 1:13
4th Day - Genesis 1: 19
5th Day - Genesis 1:23
6th Day - Genesis 1:31

The heaven and the earth were created in the beginning.

Time as we know it did not begin on planet earth until there was an evening and
a morning. So where was planet earth before the first sun and the first sunset ?
Was planet earth in another orbit that did not take it around the sun.
Think about it.
Before the end of the first day the earth was in darkness and covered with water.
Was the water the result of some cataclysmic judgement between Genesis 1:1
and Genesis 1:2 ?
Before The First sun rise and the first sun set on earth, the earth was already
created and in darkness and covered with water.
When we read Genesis 1:1-5, it becomes clear that when planet earth was
created , for one reason or another, planet earth was covered in in darkness and
covered with water.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

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And the earth was 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.
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And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the

darkness.
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And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the
evening and the morning were the first day.( Genesis 1:1:5).
Why was earth in darkness ?
Was there a cataclysmic judgement on earth when satan was cast out of heaven
and fell like lightening that plunged earth into darkness ?
Planet earth, without Divine Intervention, in Genesis 1:2 was not in state that
could support and sustain Life.
Divine Providence had to intervene in Genesis 1:2 to bring Order out of Chaos.
Planet Earth was without Form.
Planet Earth was Void.
Planet Earth had no Life.
Planet earth was in darkness and covered with water.
According to Genesis 1, GOD had to separate Light from darkness and then GOD
had to make dry land appear and separate The land from the water and then we
see plant life and we see the sun and moon and stars are made to appear.
And then we see aquatic life and land animals and creeping things like insects
and reptiles etc appear on the sixth day and at evening of the sixth day we see
GOD created man
Adam was the first man created.
Adam was created about 6000 years ago.
Noahs flood happened about 1656 years after the creation of Adam.
Where am I getting this ?
Read Genesis Chapter 5 and we see that about 1656 years after the creation of
Adam, we had Noahs flood.

It is important to note that before the first evening and the first morning of the
first 24 hour day, the earth already existed from since the beginning. The Holy
Bible said so.
The Holy Bible said that :
In the beginning GOD created the heaven and the earth.
So when was the beginning ?
No one knows when the beginning was but it was a very long time ago .
Time on earth only began when there was an evening and a morning on the first
day. ( see Genesis 1:5).
But before that, we are just told that In the beginning GOD created the heaven
and the earth.
Why was earth in darkness in Genesis 1:2 ?
We do not know.
What we do know is that in Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and
void: and darkness was upon the face of the deep..
Some Bible Scholars ( Like Reverend C.Schofield and Finis Jennings Dake etc )
believe that between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2, that was a cataclysmic
Judgement.
However, what we do know is that before the first evening and the first morning
on planet earth, there was no life on earth until GOD commanded Light to come
forth ( to appear and shine on earth ) and then after GOD separated Light from
Darkness, there was an evening and there was a morning on the first day on
planet earth.
Notice there was an evening first and then there was a morning.
Was earth moved from its orbit of dark ness into an orbit where it could receive
Light from the sun ?
Or was their a thick veil of darkness over the earth that veiled planet earth in
darkness ?
Notice , only planet earth was in darkness.
In Genesis 1:2 we are told that : And the earth was without form, and void:
and darkness was upon the face of the deep..
When David looked up at the heaves, David saw the moon and the stars. ( see
Psalm 8 ).
3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the
stars, which thou hast ordained;...
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The Psalmist David said that the heavens were The Works of The Finger of GOD
and he mentioned the moon and the stars.
The moon and the stars are part of the heavens.
And we know that the moon and the stars were created in the beginning
because in Genesis 1:1 we read.
In the beginning GOD created the heaven ( the universe i.e. the moon of the
earth, the stars , the planets and the moons of the planets etc ) and the earth.
Now in Jeremiah 4:23, the prophet Jeremiah seen the same thing that Moses
saw in Genesis 1:2.
Jeremiah 4:23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and
the heavens, and they had no light.
Notice Moses said in Genesis 1:2 :
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of
the deep.
Notice Moses in Genesis 1:2 and Jeremiah in Jeremiah 4:23 are describing the
same thing that they saw by Prophetic Vision.
Remember that Moses and Jeremiah were Prophets and Prophets see Visions.
Both Moses and Jeremiah saw that the earth was void.
Notice Moses said that the earth was in darkness and Jeremiah said that the
heavens had no light. In other words, planet earth was in darkness. Is that right.
Remember that in Genesis Chapters 1 and 2 we do not read about the creation
of the Angels.
But in Genesis Chapter 2 , we see that already evil is present in The Garden of
Eden for we read about The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. ( see Genesis
2:18).
..And The LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will
make him an help meet for him.
In Genesis 3 , we read that the serpent beast ( a beast being a warm blooded
creature ) beguiled Eve and deceived Eve and then the next thing we read in
Genesis 4 is that Eve had conceived and when she gave birth, Cain and Abel
were born.
Cain was wicked and of the wicked one. ( See 3 John 3:12).
Cain killed his brother Abel.

Sorry, for passing through Samaria. It was needful.

We now come back to our question.
The question we are looking at is How old is the earth ?.
We know from Scripture in The Holy Bible that the heaven and earth were
created in the beginning.
We know that before the first evening and before the first morning on earth, that
earth was void and without form and in darkness and the land mass of earth ,
that is the mountains and valleys etc were covered with water.
The whole of planet earth was covered with water.
Then we see in the rest of Genesis Chapter One how GOD prepared planet earth
to support and sustain Life on earth.
Special; Divine Attention is given to planet earth.
Now we are coming to our question.
The question is How old is the earth ?.
Bible Scholars looking at Scriptures in Genesis Chapter 1 to Genesis Chapter 11
have calculated that the history of human beings and the history of all forms of
life on earth is about 6000 years.
Someone will ask When did dinosaurs walk on planet earth ? Was it billions of
years ago or was it about 6000 years ago ?.
The answer to that question is that GOD created Life on earth after He began to
prepare planet earth to support and sustain life.
Dinosaurs are land animals and land animals were created on The Sixth Day, the
same time when the first human beings Adam and Eve were created. ( see
Genesis 1: 24-31).
To summarise then, In the beginning GOD created the heaven and the earth..
( see Genesis 1:1).
And when earth was created, the sun and the moon and the stars were also
created.
But the angels were created way back in the beginning before planet earth was
created. ( see Job 38:1-7).
In The Book of Job we read that The Sons of GOD were present before the
foundation of the earth.
In Job 38 :1-7 we read :
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Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
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Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou

me.
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Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast

understanding.
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Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched

the line upon it?

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Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone

thereof;
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When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for

joy?...
How old is the earth ?
The earth is about 6000 years old from the time that planet earth had its first
sunrise and its first sunset.
Scientists have recently found bones with soft organic tissue and blood.
Dinosaurs first walked on earth about 6000 years ago and Dinosaurs perished in
Noahs flood.
Every true and honest scientist knows that organic tissue and blood and blood
vessels cannot survive in any alleged fossil that is a million or a billion years or
more.