How Old is the Earth

I was asked a question by Bob, "How Old is the Earth". Not me directly, but in a comment field. Good question so I decided to answer it. For those of you (Other than you BOB) who read this blog and have asked the same question from time to time here is a sound Biblical analysis that you can hang your faith hat on:

This question about the age of the earth. Get your Bible out. Buckle your seat belts. It’s gonna be a wild ride.

OK. First it had a beginning. There once was a was when there wasn’t anything. Agreed?

How long ago. Long. Very Long. By light years we can guess very very long. Where in that continuum is the earth? Long ago. Probably Billions. But not billions and billions. Universe probably is billions and billions. Earth is relatively young.

On the other end. There will come a day when the earth will be no more. How? Why? Sun going super nova and then a black hole and absorbing it into the size of a pea? Then that will be absorbed by a greater black hole. And then ultimately, nothing. There is a beginning and an end.

GOD? Yep. He did it. There was nothing and then there suddenly was thing. Lots of thing. An expanding thing. Lightspeed.

There will come a day long long from now when it will all cease to be anything. Collapse. Nothing.

Just God before and after. He must be if we and all creation is.

So, what about Adam Eve Animals Fish Fowl day night and all that Genesis stuff, when did that happen?

We only have record written down of once. But probably several times before. We have bones of several times. (Eras) There were then full stops. Cessations. Atomic winter type events that all life ceased to be. Meteor impacts. Volcanics. Earth Tilting. Cosmic Ray Events.

Then there came a formless void. Genesis 1:1 And the Spirit of the Living God hovered over the void and God Said once more, Let there be Light. And there was light.

Out of the void of destruction and nothing he spoke order, life and light.

Later in some many days there was a time When God Said, “Let us make MAN in our image”.

My guess is that was about 25,000 years ago. No one knows for sure but that appears to be the emergence of the first real sentient beings on the planet. Soul creatures.

There already at that point were animals and birds and fish. Not evolved, spoken into creation.

And we begin history. Scraps at first and then there was Noah. It picks up after that. We have pretty good archaeological records from there on.

So, the earth is old, but not as old as the universe. Man is not old at all.

Before there was anything there was God and after everything ceases there will be God. Alpha and Omega. Beginning and End.

Oh, and his name isn’t Allah. It’s JESUS. He was there at creation.

For those of you who are Bible Scholars, think about this. I have and this does not conflict with any Biblical rendering.

This is what Mike Huckabee believes as well. This isn’t that complicated if you approach it with faith. Science complements the truth of Scripture in this way. Whenever an archaeological or scientific discovery is announced I look for how it reinforces what I already know to be true from the Word of God. I’m never disappointed.