Divine Revelation Worldview

The Bible was originally written in Hebrew by a series of many authors around the time of 1450-1410 BC (Holy Bible, Scofield). Moses who wrote Genesis, supposedly received direct information from God himself about how the world and man were created. This is the first point of interpretation because there is a need to have blind faith in Moses. There are many stories in Genesis that seem absurd and hard to believe really happened, unless you are someone who believes in the power of God and has this blind faith. For example, God gives Adam and Eve a garden and says not to take the fruit from one tree and when they eat the fruit from that tree, God punishes them, “Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life” (1:17, Gen). From a figurative standpoint we can

Genesis, the first book of the Christian Old Testament in the Bible, was written around the 5th century B.C. Genesis is also a creation story featuring God and his creation of Adam and Eve. The title Genesis means “beginning” in the Hebrew language.

Young- Earth view point on the age of earth is based on not only science but the Bible as well. There try to combine the two areas in an effort to present the true age of the earth. One of the areas they use is how long it takes for material to harden. They present

Religious followers believes that the earth was created around 1410-1450 B.C the time when the book of Genesis was written by Moses. The very first chapter of the book talks about the creation of the earth, Genesis chapter 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Bible Society, 2004). This among other scriptures in the Bible is what religious people believe in and as far as new technology to determine when the age of the earth they still use the teachings of the Bible but from a different book. The book of Genesis speaks of the creation of the earth but the book that speaks of the end of the earth is the book of Revelations.

Properly dating the book of Genesis would allow us to build a timeline of creation which we can be used to trace back to day one of creation. However, this is extremely difficult to determine for two fundamental reasons: (1) the Bible provides no controllable statis- tical data that apply to the problem of absolute chronology; (2) most of the events took place in the preliterate period for which we have no extrabiblical written documents. (Ch. 1 Pg. 28)

The passage that I choose to write about was Genesis chapter 1 verses 1-5. I choose this passage because I was interested in studying how God supposedly created the earth and turned darkness into a world full of life and spirit. Genesis 1 begins by saying “in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”(NKJV) I think that the purpose of this verse is to summarize the things that God would do in the future. This text tells us that God existed before the heavens and the earth. We also learn that before God started to create, the earth was empty, dark, and lifeless. The text also represents the beginning of everything earthly by saying God will create life on earth and in

Revelation applied to the original readers in efforts to save them from losing focus on Jesus Christ. The original address was to persuade Christians to either stop their sinful behavior, or to prevent them from performing sinful behavior. Apostle John addressed the Churches in Asia to turn away from idolatry, immorality, corruption, and to avoid losing their faith in Jesus Christ because of their stagnancy. In addition, Revelation was a warning to mankind. The purpose was to give the non-Christians and the lukewarm Christians an understanding of the devastating events that will occur on those who choose not to follow Jesus.

The age of the earth, in the eyes of scientific creationism, is calculated first by creating a genealogical table. Starting with Adam, the man considered to be the first human, the genealogy should be studied until the birth of Christ. This will give you the approximate age of the earth. However, there is another controversial topic: the length of the day. Scientific creationism believes that the length of the day in Genesis chapter one is a literal 24 hour day, however there are other theories that the day might be longer and may not even be confined within the human realm.”

I agree with you that there are many concepts that can account for a young-Earth creation. You mentioned a few, such as sediment; rocks; fossils; and the sun, all of which indicate that they have not been around for a very long time. Most young-Earth Creationists believe that the Earth has only been around between 6,000 but no more than 10,000 years (“What is Young Earth Creationism,” 2017).

Old-Earth View Old-Earth creation hold that the earth is ancient “4.55 billion years” (Ross, Whitmore, Gollmer, and Faulkner, 2015, The Heavens & the Earth. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.) The Nebular Hypothesis supports that “the Earth is billions of years old. In 1798, Laplace, a distinguished French mathematician and astronomer, first suggested that the planets were created from the atmosphere of the sun, which, because of its heat, originally extended beyond the orbit of the most distant planet.

Victor Stenger, an emeritus professor of Physics and Astronomy, at the University of Hawaii, and Visiting Fellow in Philosophy, at the University of Colorado in his article, “Darwinism and the Age of Earth,” says that evolutionists (those that support the Evolution theory) estimate the age of the Earth at 4.54 billion years. Evolutionists have come to this conclusion about the Earth’s age using a scientific process known as Radiocarbon dating, a radiometric dating technique that uses the decay of carbon-14 to estimate the age of organic materials (Stenger). Creationists (those that support the Creationism) peg the age of the Earth at 6000 years old (Ruse). The Earth’s age for the creationist is calculated by taking the various time periods mentioned throughout the Bible and summing them up (Ruse). I find it queer how these two theories estimates of the Earth’s

removed from the earth to be spared from God’s wrath, as Pre-tribulationists assert? The Scriptures

The book of Revelation has always presented the interpreter with challenges. The book is steeped in vivid imagery and symbolism which people have interpreted differently depending on their preconceptions of the book as a whole. There are four main interpretive approaches to the book of Revelation: 1) preterist (which sees all or most of the events in Revelation as having already occurred by the end of the 1st century); 2) historicist (which sees Revelation as a survey of church history from apostolic times to the present); 3) idealist (which sees Revelation as a depiction of the struggle between good and evil); 4) futurist (which sees Revelation as prophecy of events to come). Of the four, only the futurist approach interprets Revelation in

Thousands of years that have passed since the creation of man but, there is still controversy on how old the earth really is and how evolution has changed the planet over time. The story of creation is an important factor to Christianity because it sets the foundation of its Faith and what Christians believe in. There are many philosophers that have different points of view on how the earth and universe were created, but the problem with these beliefs is that none of them can prove how old the earth truly is. The question that individuals have and cannot seem to find an answer too is: Is the world is young or old and how can the question be answered?

The Earth 's age is approximately 4.6 billion years old. The Hadean Eon was the formation of the Earth. The Earth was transformed from a gaseous cloud into a solid body. The heavy molten iron sank down and became