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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

I suppose you are waiting for someone to say 4000BC but in actual fact we don't really know and any sensible Christian would avoid answering a question to which there is no specific answer. Some have deduced 4000BC by calculating ages and so on, but we don't have all the evidence or relevant information and it's not an accurate way of going about things.

It's like the 'seven days' of creation. The term 'day' is used but we have no idea how long a Heavenly day is.

Yes indeed I am. Because the bible believers seem to have everything else tied down as fact. So why the reticence in dating creation day? That’s a cop out if ever there was one.

I would have thought that a sensible Christian would try to find the date of creation with respect to our calendar to disprove the sceptics once and for all. The fact that creation cannot be dated is simply because there wasn’t one, at least not in the way described in the scriptures.

As for the term day as in on the 6th day God created Adam and Eve etc. This foible was written by a human person so it is most likely that he was referring to an earth day. He would not have had any other reference point. So trying to pass it off as a heavenly day or a universal day is another cop out.

Science has proven beyond dispute that the earth is at least 4 billion years old. So if God created this planet he must have done so some 4 billions years ago. The old testament was written from about 1400 BC onwards about events that happened billions of years ago. So where did the writers get their information from? Word of mouth? From very, very old scriptures perhaps? Either way it just doesn’t wash.

What you believe in is your own affair and it is your prerogative to do so but please don’t try and present your beliefs as fact.